About
Julia Wilm completed her state examination in Latin and History in 2019. Her PhD-project on the institutionalisation of ecclesiastical patrimonial administration from the late 5th to the mid-7th century was funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) from November 2020 to March 2024. Since October 2023, she has been a research assistant at the Chair of Roman History and Historical Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. In 2024, she began her habilitation project, which explores social knowledge and its changeability in Greco-Roman antiquity using the example ‘death’.
Research
Julia Wilm employs interdisciplinary approaches to analyse social processes. Her dissertation focusses on the late antique development of church administration (5th–7th century), using social constructivist institutionalisation theory to examine papal interactions in letters. She systematizes her sources by means of philological methods, i. e. lexical field and lexical semantic change theory.
In her habilitation project, she investigates the dynamics of ancient (societal) knowledge based on the interplay between social change and individual behavior, particularly in relation to the knowledge about and conceptions of death. The project is based primarily on epigraphy and stratification analyses of narrative materials (Erzählstoffforschung) in Greco-Roman culture.
Publications
Entries in Encyclopaedias
- Wilm, J.: „Patrimony | Christianity“, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 23, 2024, 621–622.
Aritcles (accepted)
- Wilm, J.: Patrimonium Sancti Petri? An Examination of Institutionalisation within the Administration of the Roman Church, in: Edwards, R./Gemeinhardt, P./Schenk , D. (Hg.): Institutions and Institutionality in Late Antiquity, Millennium Studies, Berlin.
Teaching
In her teaching, Julia Wilm integrates her research interests with broader topics in ancient history that provide contemporary points of reference for students. These include, for example, the deconstruction of ancient narratives on the so-called Barbarian Invasions (Völkerwanderung) and ‘the barbarians’ as well as the exploration of Greek myths and their influence today (myth reception). The use of various sources and academic research as well as the diversity of the methods used are intended to promote students’ professional, methodological and personal skills.