Curriculum vitae

Awards and Scholarships

06/2022 - 01/2025

Research Fellowship of the Minerva Stiftung, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

10/2022 - 03/2023

Travel Fellowship of the German Archaeological Institute

08/2018 - 10/2018

Doctoral Fellowship of the Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo, Università degli Studi di Firenze

01/2016 - 04/2016

DAAD PROMOS Scholarship for a research stay at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa

Education

02/2022

Doctorate in Classical Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

02/2017

Master of Arts in Classical Archaeology, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces and Prehistory, Universität zu Köln

04/2015

Bachelor of Arts in Classical Archaeology, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces and Prehistory, Universität zu Köln, Universität zu Köln

Professional Experience

From 03/2025

Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin

03/2022 - 02/2025

Post-Doc at the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, Department of Maritime Civilisations, University of Haifa

10/2017 - 12/2020 & 01/2021 - 02/2022

Research Associate and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

Research Focus

My research focuses on the desert settlements that existed in the Negev Desert between the 2^nd and 8^th centuries CE, within the Roman provinces of Arabia and Palaestina.

Another key area of investigation concerns communities that were forcibly resettled during the Roman expansion in Italy.

My primary interests include the following topics:

• Settlement Archaeology
• Human life in desert ecosystems
• Agriculture and foodways
• Economy and trade relations
• Early Christianity, monasticism and pilgrimage economy
• Cultural Identity
• Forced displacement

• History of Archaeology
• Archaeology and politics

Publications (*peer-reviewed)

• S. Lehnig, M. Peleg, J. Linstädter, G. Bar-Oz, G. Gambash, Theodor Wiegand in Mitzpe Shivta. Spolia and Heritage Protection along the Ottoman Military Railway, Archäologischer Anzeiger, accepted.*
• S. Lehnig, G. Gambash, G. Bar-Oz, From Early Christianity to Early Islam: New Radiocarbon Dates Extend Occupation Period of Mitzpe Shivta in the Negev Desert, Carmel, accepted*
• L. Dietrich, M. Ergün, A. Galik, S. Lehnig (eds.), Food in Anatolia and Its Neigboring Regions, BYZAS, forthcoming.
• M. Heinzelmann, Ch.A. Schöne, A. Schröder, D. Wozniok, F. Jordan, T. Erickson-Gini, M. Kühn, D. Langgut, S. Lehnig, Elusa – From Nabatean Trading Post to Late Antique Desert Metropolis. Results of the 2015-2020 Seasons, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2022, 237-297.*
• S. Lehnig, G. Gambash, G. Bar-Oz, Resurrecting Mitzpe Shivta. Connections between Monasticism and Economy in the Late Antique Negev Desert, Antiquity 369, 2023.*
• G. Gambash, B. Pestarino, S. Lehnig, G. Bar-Oz, Praying for a Place in the Book of the Living. A New Byzantine Inscription from Mitzpe Shivta, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2023.*
• I. Ktalav, Y. Tepper, G. Gambash, S. Lehnig, G. Bar-Oz, Long-distance Trade and Consumption of Mollusks in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods in the Negev Desert, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 37, 2021, 102927.*
• S. Lehnig, J. Linstädter, Nature, History, Natural History, Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption 31, 2021, 174-196.
• J. Dunne, K. Manning, J. Linstädter, A. Mikdad, P. Breeze, R. Hutterer, S. Lehnig, J. Morales, T. Gillard, N. Drake, R. Evershed, Pots, Plants and Animals: Broad-Spectrum Subsistence Strategies in the Early Neolithic of the Moroccan Rif Region, Quarternary International 555, 2020, 96-109.*