Isabelle Kuenzer
Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Giessen
Having completed her PhD at the University of Bonn, where her research focused on competitive behaviour among senators in ancient Rome, Isabelle Künzer assumed a a
postdoctoral research position at the University of Giessen. She obtained her habilitation with a thesis on the relationship between norms and emotions surrounding suicide in ancient Greece. She is currently leading a research project at the University of Giessen on how people in imperial Rome coped with electoral defeats and dealt with disappointment. Her research primarily focuses on the cultural history of the Roman Principate and on dying, death, and funerary practices in ancient Greece. She also studies the history of the body, the senses, and emotions in the ancient world. Her research is phenomenologically oriented in terms