Roman Empire, social, economic, legal, cultural history, Augustine, slavery, masculinities, dress, imperial representation, war, ethnicities.

"Representative Publications:
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome. Berkeley: UC Press, 2012. Winner 2013 C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association.

Virgins of God. The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford Classical Monograph Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994; Paperback, 1996, re-ed. 1999, 2003; e-book 2006).

Sold to Sin by Origin: Slavery and Freedom in Augustine. In preparation.

Intellectual Exchange and Religious Diversity in Antioch (CE 350-450). Ed. S.-P. Bergjan and S. Elm, Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, forthcoming.

Die Braut Christi: Familienformen in Europa, Ed. S. Elm and B. Vinken, Paderborn: W. Fink Verlag, 2015.

Wer heilt, hat Recht? Medizin, Kunst, Ritus. Ed. S. Willich and S. Elm. Trigon 11, Guardini

Stiftung, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2014, 45-102.

Quo Vadis Medical Healing. Past Concepts and New Approaches. Ed. Susanna Elm and Stefan Willich. International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine 44. New York: Springer, 2009.

Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices. Ed. H. Drake and co-ed. E. Albu S. Elm, M. Maas, C. Rapp, M. Salzman. London: Ashgate, 2006.

Medical Challenges for the New Millennium - An Interdisciplinary Task. Ed. Stefan N. Willich and Susanna Elm. New York/Amsterdam: Kluver, 2001.

Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire-Orthodoxy, Christianity, History. Ed. Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Rome: École française de Rome, 2000; e-book 2007.

The “Holy Man” Revisited (1971-1997): Charisma, Texts, and Communities in Late Antiquity. Ed. Susanna Elm and Naomi Janowitz. Special Issue Journal of Early Christian Studies 6: 3 (1998).

“Heil/Kunst: Galen über die Kunst der Medizin und die Meaning Response,” in Wer heilt, hat Recht? Medizin, Kunst Ritus, Ed. S. Willich and S. Elm, Trigon 11, Guardini Stiftung, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2014, 57-64

“Sponsa Christi or the Marriage Plot: A New late Roman Role for Women,” in Familienformen in Europa: Die Braut Christi, Ed. S. Elm and B. Vinken, Paderborn, W. Fink Verlag, 2015.

“When Augustine Spoke of Babylon, What did he See?” in Translatio Babylonis: Unsere orientalische Moderne, ed. B. Vinken, Paderborn: W. Fink Verlag, 2015.

„Zurückblickend nach vorne schauen: Prudentius, Roms janusköpfiger Dichter,“ in Amor/Roma: Rom rückwärts gelesen. Ed. J.Kaspar und C. Wild, Zurich: Diaphanes Verlag, fortcoming.

“Neues aus der alten Welt II – Die Spätantike oder der lange Schatten von Edward Gibbon,” Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken 68 (2014): 442-449.

“What the Bishop Wore to the Synod: John Chrysostom, Origenism, and the Politics of Fashion at Constantinople,” Adamantius 19 (2013): 156-169.

“Church- Festival-Temple: Reimagining Civic Topography in Late Antiquity,” in The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World: Changing Contexts of Power and Identity. Ed. C. Rapp and H. Drake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 167-182.

“Ascetics and Monastics in the Early Fifth Century,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila. Ed. M. Maas. Cambridge 2014.

Articles

“Heil/Kunst: Galen über die Kunst der Medizin und die Meaning Response,” in Wer heilt, hat Recht? Medizin, Kunst Ritus, Ed. S. Willich and S. Elm, Trigon 11, Guardini Stiftung, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2014, 57-64

“Sponsa Christi or the Marriage Plot: A New late Roman Role for Women,” in Familienformen in Europa: Die Braut Christi, Ed. S. Elm and B. Vinken, Paderborn, W. Fink Verlag, 2015.

“When Augustine Spoke of Babylon, What did he See?” in Translatio Babylonis: Unsereorientalische Moderne, ed. B. Vinken, Paderborn: W. Fink Verlag, 2015.

“Oikeiōsis pros theon: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Concept of Theōsis or Mediation between Individual and Community,” in Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Ed. E. Rebillard and J. Ruepke, Washington D.C., 2014.

„Zurückblickend nach vorne schauen: Prudentius, Roms janusköpfiger Dichter,“ in Amor/Roma: Rom rückwärts gelesen. Ed. J.Kaspar und C. Wild, Zurich: Diaphanes Verlag, fortcoming.

“Neues aus der alten Welt II – Die Spätantike oder der lange Schatten von Edward Gibbon,” Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken 68 (2014): 442-449.

“What the Bishop Wore to the Synod: John Chrysostom, Origenism, and the Politics of Fashion at Constantinople,” Adamantius 19 (2013): 156-169.

“Church- Festival-Temple: Reimagining Civic Topography in Late Antiquity,” in The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World: Changing Contexts of Power and Identity. Ed. C. Rapp and H. Drake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 167-182.

“Ascetics and Monastics in the Early Fifth Century,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila. Ed. M. Maas. Cambridge 2014."
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