Professor Julia Hillner

Staatsexamen, Ph.D. (Bonn)

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Honorary Professor of Medieval History

Julia Hillner
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j.hillner@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Julia Hillner
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
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I am the Principal Investigator of and of , a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters of the , a co-editor of , a member of the editorial board of , and a trustee of the .

Publications

Books

  • Hillner J (2015) Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hillner J (2004) Jedes Haus ist eine Stadt: Privatimmobilien im spätantiken Rom. Bonn: Habelt.
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Edited books

  • Hillner J (Ed.) (2019) Waves Across the Pond: Exiling Clerics in Late Antiquity, Special Issue of Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal, vol. 3.3 (2019)...
  • (Ed.) (2016) ..
  • (Ed.) (2007) . Cambridge University Press.
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Journal articles

  • Prado SD, Dahmen SR, Bazzan ALC, MacCarron M & Hillner J (2020) . Advances in Complex Systems.
  • Hillner J (2019) . Studies in Late Antiquity, 3(3), 369-412.
  • Hillner JD (2019) . Gender & History, 31(2), 353-382.
  • Hillner JD (2017) . Antiquite Tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archeologie, 25, 75-94.
  • Hillner JD (2013) Confined Exiles: An Aspect of the Late Antique Prison System. Millennium. Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr., 10.
  • Hillner JD (2011) Monks and Children: Corporal Punishment in Late Antiquity. European Review of History, 16, 773-791.
  • Hillner JD (2011) 'Gregory the Great's Prisons: Monastic Confinement in Early Byzantine Italy'. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 19, 433-471.
  • Hillner J (2007) . Journal of Early Christian Studies, 15(2), 205-237.
  • Hillner J (2006) . Antiquité Tardive, 14, 59-68.
  • Cooper K, Hillner J & Leyser C (2006) . Late Antique Archaeology, 3(1), 311-337.
  • Hillner J (2003) . Journal of Roman Studies, 93, 129-145.
  • Hillner J (2001) Die Berufsangaben und Adressen auf den stadtrömischen Sklavenhalsbändern. HISTORIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ALTE GESCHICHTE, 50(2), 193-216.
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Book chapters

  • Hillner J (2020) , Social Control in Late Antiquity (pp. 15-38). Cambridge University Press
  • Hillner J (2019) , La construction sociale du sujet exclu (IVe-XIe siècle) (pp. 45-68). Brepols Publishers
  • Hillner JD (2019) Preserving Female Voices: Female Letters in Late Antique Letter Collections In Lizzi R & Marconi G (Ed.), A Late Antique Experiment in Roman-Canon Law. The Collectio Avellana and its Revivals Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Hillner J (2016) , Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (pp. 11-43).
  • Hillner JD (2013) Family Violence: Punishment and Abuse in the Late Roman Household In Tougher S & Brubaker L (Ed.), Approaches to the Byzantine Family (pp. 21-45). Farnham: Ashgate.
  • Hillner JD (2011) Enfermement monastique au VIe siècle In Claustre J & Heullant-Donant I (Ed.), Enfermements: Le cloître et la prison du Ve au XVIIIe siècle (pp. 39-56). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.
  • Hillner J () , Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900 (pp. 225-261). Cambridge University Press
  • Hillner JD () Anicia Iuliana and the Collectio Avellana: What difference did her letters make? In Evers A (Ed.), Emperors, Bishops, Senators: The Evidence of the Collectio Avellana (pp. 132-141). Leuven: Peeters.
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Dictionary or encyclopaedia entries

  • Hillner J (2018) 'Execution', 'Punishment', 'Prisons', 'Homicide', 'Violence, crimes of', 'Torture'. In Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity Oxford University Press.
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Datasets

  • Hillner J, Mawdsley H & Rohmann D (2018) The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity.
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Research group

Research supervision

I teach social history of the Roman and late Roman empire. I am happy to supervise students interested in any aspect of this area, in particular those with interests in the city of Rome, the family, monasticism, crime and punishment, and late Roman and early medieval law.

Current Students

Lewis Blake Dagnall

PhD Student (History)
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Title: The Price of Empire? Justinian I’s use of cash subsidies in foreign policy, 527-565
Email
lwdagnall1@sheffield.ac.uk
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Second Supervisor

  • Kelsey Madden (Second Supervisor, Department of Archaeology) -  Vulnerable Victims of War: The Meaning and Significance of Barbarian Women and Children Represented in Roman Conquest Iconography from the 1st to the 4th centuries AD.

All current students

Completed Students
  • Simon Hosie (MPhil) - Cataloguing the Empire: The Regionary Catalogues and the Role and Purpose of Bureaucratic Inventories.
  • Harold Mawdsley - Exile in the Western Successor-States, 439 - C.650.

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Grants
  • Heinz-Heinen Fellowship, , University of Bonn (2021)
  • British Academy Conference Grant 2021 (as Co-I, with Dr Caroline Goodson, Cambridge)
  • Follow-on Fellowship, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, Autumn Semester 2017-18
  • AHRC Research Project Grant for the project (2014-2017)
  • Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung (2011/12)
  • Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Collaboration Category, Sheffield (2011)
  • British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (2003-2008)
  • Graduiertenförderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (1998-2000)
Teaching activities

Undergraduate:

  • HST230 - The Family in Late Antiquity: Romans, Barbarians and Christians
  • HST2025 - Match of the Day: The Nika Riot in 532
  • HST3113/14 - The Phoenix City: Rome in Late Antiquity (300-600)

Postgraduate: 

  • HST6033 - Crime and Punishment in Late Antiquity
  • HST6084 - Writing Late Antique Lives
Professional activities and memberships

I am a member of the editorial board of , a co-editor of and an editor of ,

I serve as an elected  member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters of the (2017-2021) and as an elected member of the council of the , of which I am also a trustee

I am on the Advisory Board of the ERC funded project "" (CONNEC), directed by Dr David Natal (Royal Holloway), and a 'Fachgutachter' for the Alexander von .

I am a member of the (AIAC)

Administrative roles:

I am the Department of History's REF coordinator.

Public engagement

I am a committee member of the , which I chaired in 2010-11. In 2015-6 I supervised research into the history of the Sheffield Classical Association, conducted by Isobel Bowden and supported by a SURE project grant of the University of Sheffield. The results of this project can be found on the branch's website.

I am also on the and can be booked for local Classical Association and school talks. I have recently given lectures in Bangor, Hull, Cardiff, Leeds, Edinburgh and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

In the media:

I am a regular contributor to the department's History Matters blog. I regularly blog about the research for my current monograph project, a biography of Helena, mother of Constantine, .