Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities (ADA)

Elisa Roßberger is a junior professor (tenure track) for Explorative Visual Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She works towards digital indexing, linking, and analysis of objects and images from ancient Western Asia, focusing on the Bronze Age cultures of present-day Iraq and Syria (3^rd and 2^nd millennium BCE). She is particularly interested in cylinder seals and their impressions on clay tablets. In the project Annotated Corpus of Ancient West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals these multimodal artefacts transformed into annotated and expandable data sets according to Linked Open Data standards. Furthermore, she aims to integrate digital storytelling more strongly into university teaching.  

Vita
Elisa Roßberger studied Near Eastern Archaeology, Political Sciences, and Assyriology in Munich, Beirut, and Tübingen (Magister Artium 2006). She received her doctorate from the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen with a thesis on jewelry from the Royal Tomb of Qatna (Syria). She was a research assistant in Freiburg and Munich, a postdoc at the LMU  Graduate School Distant Worlds and the LMU  Centre for Advanced Studies, and a PhD-fellow of the LMU Research Training Group Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures. As an archaeologist, she conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Uzbekistan. Before joining Freie Universität Berlin, she was a junior professor for Digital Humanities in Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at JMU Würzburg.