Jes­sika Arm­brüs­ter

Education

  • October 2014 – January 2018: Bachelor of Arts in archaeology, Innsbruck University,
    specialization: Classical Archaeology, thesis: “Tumuli in the Kerameikos at Athens –
    Monumental Tombs as Markers of Political Representation”
  • October 2015 – October 2019: Bachelor of Arts in Classica et Orientalia, Innsbruck University,
    specialization: Ancient Near East Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Philology, thesis:
    “Find context of Greek imported Pottery in Eastern Georgia”
  • October 2018 – April 2021: Master of Arts in archaeology, specialization: Classical and Ancient
    Near Eastern Archaeology, thesis: “The early Hellenistic ‘two-room house’ between Aphrodite
    Tempel and the Late Archaic House on Monte Iato around 300 BC”
  • Since July 2021: Doctoral Programme Philosophy, focus archaeology, working title: “From
    Compound to Peristyle: Development Processes of Rural Settlements from the 4th to 2nd
    century BC in the Mediterranean."

Academic Career

  • March 2018 – September 2018: Student assistant in research and organization at the department
    for ancient history and ancient near Eastern Studies at Innsbruck University, working for Univ.-
    Prof. Dr. Robert Rollinger
  • July 2019 – February 2021: Student assistant in research and organization at the department for
    archaeology at Innsbruck University, working for Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Kistler
  • November 2019 – September 2020: Student assistant at the research center AWOSA (Ancient
    World Studies and Archaeologies)
  • October 2020 – April 2021: Student project assistant at the department for archaeology at
    Innsbruck University, FWF Projekt P304780 "Between Aphrodite-Temple and the late archaic
    House III" (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monte-iato/fwf/zwischen-aphrodite-tempel-undspaetarchaischem-
    haus-iii/index.html.en)
  • May 2021 – September 2021: Scientific project assistant at the department for archaeology at
    Innsbruck Universty, FWF Projekt P304780 "Between Aphrodite-Temple and the late archaic
    House III"
  • Since October 2021: Scientific project assistant at the department for archaeology at Innsbruck
    University, FWF Projekt P34941 "The Parochial City at Hellenistic Monte Iato and the World
    beyond Peristyle House 1" (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monte-iato/fwf/laendliche-stadtmonte-
    lato/)
  • July 2022 – April 2023: Project member at the FWF WKP project (WKP 151) “Storytelling
    Consumptionscapes between modernity and traditionality. A virtual encounter with the archaic
    Monte Iato, Sicily (6th/5th century BC)” (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monteiato/
    fwf/erzaehlende-konsumlandschaften/)

Main research topics

  • Transformation processes during the “Hellenization” of the Mediterranean
  • Adaption and appropriation of Greek elements in indigenous settings focusing on the
    significance and function in domestic architecture
  • Settlement morphology of the 4th – 2nd century BC

Lectures and Publications

Publications

  • E. Kistler – B. Öhlinger – Th. Dauth – B. Wimmer – J. Armbrüster – M. Erber – V.
    Hadlauer: Risultati dell’ottavo campagna di scavi dell'Università di Innsbruck sul Monte
    Iato (online, 2019)
    (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monte-iato/working-papers/working-papers/index.html.de)
  • J. Armbrüster, Die Urbanisierung des ländlichen Raumes. Wie antike Wohntrends in
    verstädterten Siedlungen des 4. und 3. Jh. v. Chr. adaptiert wurden, Junge Forschung 50,
    2022
    (https://www.uibk.ac.at/fsp-kultur/nachwuchs/texte/armbruester-antike-wohntrends.html)

Lectures

  • J. Armbrüster – Th. Dauth, „Neue Studien zur Stratigraphie und Chronologie der
    Siedlungsgeschichte des 3. Jh. v. Chr. im Westquartier“
    „2. Monte Iato Workshop, Innsbruck, 23.-24.03.2023
  • „Wohnweisen ländlicher Siedlungen des 3. Jh. v. Chr.“
    „Die ‚ländliche Stadt‘: Lokalisierungsformen von Urbanität im Hinter- und
    Binnenland, Workshop Innsbruck, 16.-17.11.2021
    (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monteiato/
    veranstaltungen/downloads/programm.laendliche.stadt.pdf)
  • „Vom Compound zum Peristyl: Entwicklungsprozesse ländlicher
    Siedlungen des 4. bis 2. Jh. v. Chr. im mediterranen Raum“
    „Archäologische Forschungen auf Sizilien“ – Zweiter Workshop der
    Arbeitsgruppe des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, 29.10.2021 (online)
    (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monte-iato/vortraege/aktualisiertesprogramm_
    zweiterworkshop.pdf)
  • „Das frühhellenistische Zweiraumhaus zwischen Aphrodite-Tempel
    und Spätarchaischem Haus um 300 v. Chr. auf dem Monte Iato“
    „Archäologische Forschungen auf Sizilien“ – Erster Workshop der
    Arbeitsgruppe des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, 12.03.2021 (online)
    (https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/monte-iato/vortraege/programm_12.maerz_sizilien-ag.pdf)
  • “Imported Greek pottery in Eastern Georgia”
    11th Vardzia International Young Archaeologists’ Conference Named for
    the archaeological pioneer August Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, Vardzia, 31.05.-04.06.2019
    (https://www.uibk.ac.at/alte-geschichte-orient/veranstaltungen/archiv/2019/conferenceprogram-
    vardzia-2019.pdf)

Scholarships

  • 2018-2019: Performance-based scholarship given by Innsbruck University
  • 2021: Scholarship for scientific theses given by Innsbruck University

Other Commitments

  • 2017-2019 Student representation for Classica et Orientalia
  • Since 2021 Member of the working group of young scientists “Archaeological Research
    on Sicily”

Dissertation Project

Working title: “From Compound to Peristyle: Development Processes of Rural Settlements
from the 4th to 2nd century BC in the Mediterranean”

Until the time of the great Diadochi, an ever-expanding Greek world emerged, which
increasingly began to touch the territories of the so-called barbaroi. Strongly connected with
this expansion of Greek culture is the concept of urbanization. This includes the newly founded
apoikia along the Mediterranean coast and the settlements in the hinterland and inland, which
underwent a comprehensive reorganization during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. This was
because the consolidation of power by the Apoikia also increased their influence on the
settlements of the local population. As a result of the contacts between the global and local
worlds, in many places, the communities, which had previously been organized in hamlets,
began to redesign their settlements with urban elements such as city walls, regular street
systems, agorai, theatres or representative buildings such as the peristyle house. Outwardly, this
constructs an identity with "Greek culture". It can be assumed, however, that despite the Greeklooking
urban design, the model of the polis was not completely adopted, nor was the "Greek
way of life". Rather, only selected elements seem to have been imitated, as can be seen from
the different degrees of "Hellenization" of the inland settlements. The conditions under which
elements were appropriated and adapted to one's social and cultural needs still require more
detailed research. However, varying degrees of adaptation certainly allow conclusions to be
drawn about different social structures. Changes in these structures can be traced excellently
based on the dwellings used. Since these reflect social practice and thus also changes in it to
meet basic needs, they form the central starting point of this work.

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