Rate My Professor Clemens Koehn

Dr. Clemens Koehn is a Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of New England, part of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education. He holds a PhD and an MA from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His academic career includes serving as Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces of Germany, in Hamburg from 2005 to 2014, and as Research Associate at the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale), Germany, in 2001. Since February 2011, he has been the leading project manager of a joint research project on ancient torsion artillery in collaboration with the Universities of Trier and Osnabrück at the Helmut Schmidt University. At UNE, Dr. Koehn has served on the School of Humanities Research Committee and as Library Liaison Officer for Ancient History since 2014. He supervises HUMS, Honours, and HDR projects in Greek language, Greek history, and warfare in the ancient world.

Dr. Koehn's research interests include Hellenistic history and historiography, especially Polybius; Greek epigraphy; late antiquity, particularly 6th-century history under Justinian; history of Roman law, both constitutional and private; ancient military history, especially Roman artillery and asymmetrical warfare; and experimental archaeology. He teaches a wide range of units, including ANCH110 Introduction to Ancient Greece, ANCH307/507 Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World, ANCH351/551 Warfare in the Ancient World, HIST510 Imperialism in the Roman Republic, and classical language courses such as CLLA402 Advanced Classical Texts and CLLA403 Classical Prose Texts. Key publications comprise the monograph 'Krieg-Diplomatie-Ideologie. Zur Außenpolitik hellenistischer Mittelstaaten' (Historia-Einzelschrift 195, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007), the co-edited volume 'Polybios und seine Historien' (Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2013), 'Die Eumenesrede (Polybios XXI 19-21) und die Neuordnung Kleinasiens 189/88 v. Chr.' (Hermes 135, 2007), 'Pompeius, Cassius und Augustus. Bemerkungen zum imperium maius' (Chiron 40, 2010), and 'Some Remarks on Weaponry and Tactics of Justinian's Hippotoxotai' (2013). Notable grants and awards include funding from the Varusgesellschaft (2011), Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung (2010), Deutsches Archäologisches Institut travel grant (2008), and DAAD PhD research funding (2003). He is a Fellow of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and a member of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.