Sandra Wabnitz, BA MA

Sandra Wabnitz, BA MA

Universitätsring 1
1010 Wien

sandra.wabnitz@univie.ac.at
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Curriculum Vitae

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  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    • 10/2020 – ongoing Doctoral programme in Philosophy History at the University of Vienna
    • PhD-thesis: Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe: A Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Chinese Accounts on Steppe Peoples (4th-9th c.)
    • Supervisor: Walter Pohl 
    • 09/2023 - 11/2023 Visiting Student Research Collaborator at the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University
    • 10/2017 - 07/2020 Master’s programme Historical Research, Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Studies at the University of Vienna
    • Master thesis: Die Integration von Barbaren in der lateinischen und chinesischen Historiographie des Frühmittelalters
    • Supervisor: Walter Pohl
    • 10/2013 - 07/2016 Bachelor’s programme Sinology at the University of Vienna
    • 10/2012 - 07/2016 Bachelor’s programme History at the University of Vienna

     

    Employment

    • 08/2020 – ongoing Research assistant in the ERC Synergy Grant Project „Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400-900 CE (HistoGenes)“ at the University of Vienna
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Research

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  • Research Interests
    • historiography - medieval
    • cultural history
    • social history
    • Eurasian steppe peoples
  • Projects

    Horse Lords of the Steppe: A Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Chinese Accounts on Steppe Peoples, 4th-9th c.

    08/2020 – ongoing Research assistant in the ERC Synergy Grant Project "Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400-900 CE (HistoGenes)" at the University of Vienna.

    Within my research project "Horse Lords of the Steppe: A Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Chinese Accounts on Steppe Peoples, 4th-9th c." I analyse and compare ethnographic reports on steppe peoples in Latin, Greek, and Chinese written accounts between the 4th and 9th centuries CE, concentrating mainly on historiographical sources. My project seeks to explore and compare the literary discourse on steppe peoples from ethnographic accounts regarding significant themes that reflect key elements in the culture of a given society (religious beliefs, social hierarchy, marriage customs, gendered roles, etc.).

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Professional Service

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  • Memberships
    • The Noblewomen Network 
    • Affiliated Member of the Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations”
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Publications

  • Liccardo, Salvatore, Wabnitz, Sandra, ‘Family Matters: The Levirate Marriage as a Nomadic Custom in Medieval Eurasia’, Medieval Worlds (submitted).

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Soziale Hierarchie bei den zentralasiatischen Tuoba (4. bis 6. Jahrhundert) : Ein Modell für andere Steppenvölker? / Wabnitz, Sandra.

Grenzüberschreitungen – Reiternomaden in Mitteleuropa, ihre östlichen Wurzeln und Verbindungen/Crossing boundaries – Mounted nomads in Central Europe, their eastern roots and connections. 14. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 7. bis 9. Oktober 2021 in Halle (Saale)/14th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany October 7–9, 2021 in Halle (Saale). ed. / Harald Meller; Falko Daim. Halle (Saale) : Landesamt für Archäologie und Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt, 2022. p. 93-100 (Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle, Vol. 25).

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › peer-review

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Activities

  • 03.07.2023 Women of the Eurasian Steppe and Their Kin in Latin, Greek, and Chinese Written Sources
    International Medieval Congress (03.07.–06.07.2023), University of Leeds
  • 19.05.2023 “The men like to play a game of dice and the women football’: The representation of women of the Eurasian steppe in European and Chinese written sources (4th-9th c. CE)
    Graduate Exchange in late Antique/Byzantine and Medieval history; FU Berlin, University of Mainz, University of Oxford, Princeton University & University of Vienna (Princeton, 19.-20.05.2023)
  • 15.01.2022 Bordering the Steppe: The Great Wall as a Focal Point of Relations between Han Chinese and Steppe Peoples.
    Archaeology and Material Culture and Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval Studies Colloquia Workshop (Virtual)
  • 19.10.2021 Herrscher der Steppe: Die eurasischen Reitervölker im Vergleich (4.–9. Jh.)
    Werkstatt Frühmittelalter (Stift Zwettl)
  • 07.10.2021 Soziale Hierarchie bei den zentralasiatischen Tuoba (4. bis 6. Jahrhundert) – Ein Modell für andere Steppenvölker?
    14. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag: Grenzüberschreitungen. Reiternomaden in Mitteleuropa, ihre östlichen Wurzeln und Verbindungen (Internationale Tagung in Halle (Saale) vom 7. bis 9. Oktober 2021)
  • 14.10.2019 Der Barbarenbegriff in den Dynastiegeschichten der Han
    Werkstatt Frühmittelalter (Stift Zwettl)
  • 20.05.2019 Steppenvölker innerhalb der Reichsgrenzen. China und Rom im Vergleich
    Werkstatt Frühmittelalter (Stift Zwettl)

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Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe: Comparison of Latin, Greek and Chinese Accounts

Sandra Wabnitz
International Medieval Congress 2022
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
5.7.2022 - 5.7.2022
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Chinese and European Perceptions of Steppe Peoples

Sandra Wabnitz
Late Rome, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
3.6.2022 - 3.6.2022
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‘Horse Lords’ of the Steppe: Eurasian Steppe Peoples in Comparison (4th–9th c.)

Sandra Wabnitz
Graduate Workshop: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
1.4.2022 - 1.4.2022
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Western ideas in the east?: Migration and origin of steppe peoples in Chinese historiography

Sandra Wabnitz
Golden Years for the Dark Ages
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
26.3.2022 - 26.3.2022
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