contact: rubel@arheo.ro

Research Interest

• Classical archaeology
• Ancient history (Greek and Roman world)
• Religion and politics in antiquity
• Romanization processes and imperial dynamics
• Cultural interactions between the Roman world and Barbaricum
• Reception of antiquity in modern intellectual history

Biography

Alexander Rubel is Senior Researcher (CS I) and Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, a position he has held since 2011. He is also Associate Professor at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, where he teaches courses in ancient history and archaeology. He studied History, German Studies, Classics (Latin), and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz (Germany), where he obtained his MA degree. He later completed his PhD in Ancient History (magna cum laude) at the same university, under the supervision of Prof. W. Schuller and Prof. R. Parker (Oxford). In 2013, he obtained his habilitation, granting him the right to supervise doctoral students, and in 2015 he completed a second PhD in Philology (German literature) at the University of Iași. Before joining the Romanian Academy, he held several academic and cultural positions, including Assistant at the University of Konstanz, Director of the Goethe-Zentrum Iași, and Lecturer on behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Iași. Between 2019 and 2020, he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on ancient history and classical archaeology, with particular emphasis on religion, political structures, and cultural interactions in the Greek and Roman world, as well as on processes of Romanization and identity formation at the frontiers of the Empire.He has led and participated in numerous national and international research projects, including grants on Romanization and imperial dynamics, and has contributed significantly to interdisciplinary debates on ancient societies and their modern reception. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Arheologia Moldovei and a member of several editorial boards, contributing actively to the development of archaeological scholarship in Romania and internationally.

Selected publications

Books

Rubel, A., 2000, Stadt in Angst. Religion und Politik in Athen während des Peloponnesischen Krieges, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Rubel, A., 2012, Die Griechen. Kultur und Geschichte, Wiesbaden: Marixverlag.

Rubel, A., 2014, Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens. Religion and Politics during the Peloponnesian War, Oxford: Routledge.

Rubel, A., 2016, Religion und Kult der Germanen, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Rubel, A., 2017, Per Anhalter durch die Antike. 1400 Jahre griechisch-römische Geschichte und ihre Aktualität, Wiesbaden: Marixverlag.

Edited volumes

Rubel, A. (ed.), 2011, Romanizarea. Impunere şi adeziunea în Imperiul Roman, Iași: Editura Universității.

Rubel, A. (ed.), 2013, Romanisierung und Imperium. Neue Forschungsansätze aus Ost und West, Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag.

Rubel, A., Voß, H.-U. (eds.), 2020, Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience. Barbarian Perspectives and Roman Strategies to Encounter New Threats, Oxford: Archaeopress.

Articles

Rubel, A., 2001, Hellespontophylakes – Zöllner am Bosporos?, în KLIO 83, p. 39–51.

Rubel, A., 2009, Die ökonomische und politische Bedeutung von Bosporos und Hellespont in der Antike, în Historia 58, p. 336–355.

Rubel, A., 2018, Quo vadis Altertumswissenschaften? The command of foreign languages and the future of classical studies, în Classical World 118, p. 193–223.

Rubel, A., 2021, Philosophers’ path or cult road? The Peripatos on the slopes of the Akropolis, în Annual of the British School at Athens 116, p. 167–178.