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Biography
Michael is a palaeographer, epigraphist, and papyrologist with a research focus in ancient religion and magic. Most recently he has been employed as a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded ZODIAC project at Freie Universität Berlin (2021–2026), examining the transmission of astrological texts in Greek papyri. He is a Director-at-Large of the American Society of Papyrologists and Senior Editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum for the Near East and Egypt. From 2016 to 2021 he was Researcher for volume VI of the AHRC-funded Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) at the University of Oxford, with a focus on Greek names attested in Semitic-language sources. During his PhD, he was Assistant to the Curator of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at the University of California, Berkeley.
Michael holds a PhD in Classics and Medieval Studies (concurrent) and an MA in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley, for which he was awarded a J.K. Anderson Fellowship. He completed his undergraduate studies in Classics (Magna cum laude) with foreign language citation in Classical Hebrew at Harvard University.
Research engagement
Since 2016, Michael has been a member of the editorial board for the Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies project at the University of Chicago. He is also on the board of consultants for the Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC) at Freie Universität Berlin. He is an ongoing contributor to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series (P. Oxy.), including co-editorship of vol. LXXXVI, and he is collaborating on an AHRC-funded editorial project on literary papyri from Oxyrhynchus. He has also collaborated on the manuscript culture of Roman and later Egypt more broadly, including international collaborations on graffiti from the Ptah temple at Karnak; inscriptions from Deir Anba Hadra; and science and technology in Greco-Roman Egypt for a Supplement to Brill’s New Pauly.
Teaching
Michael has experience in graduate and undergraduate teaching in ancient languages, paleography, and papyrology. He was an instructor for the American Society of Papyrologists Summer Institute at the University of Cincinnati in 2022 and Washington University in 2018, and a lector for the Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Paleography at the University of Oxford in 2018. He was a tutor in Greek Documentary Papyrology at the University of Oxford in 2019-2020, and has taught Attic Greek and Latin Prose Composition at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012–2013.
Education/Academic qualification
Classics and Medieval Studies (concurrent), Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley
Award Date: 1 May 2016
Classics, MA, University of California, Berkeley
Award Date: 1 Dec 2011
Classics, A.B. (Magna cum laude), Harvard University
Award Date: 1 May 2010
External positions
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums, ERC Advanced Grant ZODIAC, Freie Universität Berlin
2021 → …
Associate Researcher, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
2021 → …
Postdoctoral Associate, St Cross College, University of Oxford
2017 → 2020
Researcher, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
2016 → 2021
Assistant to the Curator, The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley
2013 → 2016
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Projects
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ZODIAC – Ancient Astral Science in Transformation (ERC Advanced Grant No 885 478)
Ossendrijver, M. A. J. H., Winkler, A., Zellmann-Rohrer, M. & Schreiber, M. F.
1/01/21 → 1/05/26
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Judaea-Palestine
Zellmann-Rohrer, M., 2024, Inscriptions and the epigraphic habit: the epigraphic cultures of Greece, Rome, and beyond. Benefiel, R. R. & Keesling, C. M. (eds.). Leiden ; Boston: Brill, p. 293-306 14 p. (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy; vol. 20).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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'In the bosoms of Abraham': a Christian epitaph from Nubia in the Brooklyn Museum
Zellmann-Rohrer, M., 4 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Trilingual sales contract on papyrus from Roman Arabia (P.Yadin I 22)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M., 20 Mar 2023, In: Manuscript and Text Cultures. 2, 1, 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early Roman letter of recommendation for a skipper (O.Sydney NMR 107)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M., 2023, In: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. 60, p. 125-130 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum LXVIII (2018)
Carbon, J-M. (ed.), Chaniotis, A. (ed.), Corsten, T. (ed.), Papazarkadas, N. (ed.), Stavrianopoulou, E. (ed.) & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (ed.), 2023, Leiden: Brill. 962 p. (Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum; vol. 68)Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review
Prizes
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Routledge Philip Davies Early Career Researcher Publication Award
Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael (Recipient), 2020
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Mellon Foundation Digital Humanities Collaborative Research Grant
Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael (Recipient), 2015
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