New Faces at CSMC

9 January 2023

Photo: CSMC

With the beginning of the new year, we welcome several new faces at CSMC, including Principal Investigators, Research Associates, PhD students, and members of the supporting team.

Anna Sophie Felser joins the Cluster as a PhD student on the project ‘Multilayered Writing in Hamburg Prompt Books and Playbooks since the 18th Century’ under the supervision of Martin Jörg Schäfer. She holds an MA in German Literature with a focus on theatre and media (Universität Hamburg).

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Mariapaola Gritti joins the Cluster’s administrative team and takes up the role as our new Coordinator Equal Opportunity. She recently completed a PhD in Anthropology at the City University of New York.

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Athanasios Kerefidis joins the Cluster as a PhD student under the supervision of José Maksimczuk. He holds MA degrees in Byzantine Philology and Paleography (Democritus University of Thrace) and Philosophy (University of Athens). During his doctoral studies, he will be working on a new critical edition of Scholarios’s treatise on the Human Soul. 

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Sören Krömer joins the Cluster as a PhD student under the supervision of Szilvia Sövegjártó. He holds an MA degree in Assyriology and Aramaic Studies (Universität Heidelberg) and will be working on a textual history of the bilingual legal phrasebook ki-ulutin-bi-še3 | ana ittīšu (‘in due time’).

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Simone-Christiane Raschmann joins the Cluster with as Principal Investigator of a research project on ‘Reconstructing the scope of Old Uyghur book forms based on the handwritten remains of half a millennium of literature: A pilot study based on Buddhist manuscripts’. Previously, she was a Research Associate at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in the long-term project ‘Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections’, Old Turkic manuscripts from the Turfan findings, Berlin.

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Christiane Reck too joins us from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, where she was a Research Fellow on the long-term project ‘Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections’, cataloguing texts in Sogdian script in the Turfan collection and Persian manuscripts. At the Cluster, she will be Principal Investigator of a research project entitled ‘Studies on the Middle Iranian manuscript fragments in Sogdian script in the Berlin Turfan collection’.

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Justin Reimers joins the Cluster as a PhD student on the project ‘Multiplicities of originals: How the manuscripts of urban meeting records were used and transformed’ under the supervision of Ulla Kypta. He recently completed his MA dissertation on ‘Hanseatic Alliances and Stralsund in the early 17th Century’ at Universität Hamburg.