April 15, 2024 - October 14, 2024
Johannes Lipps is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar joining the Departments of Classical Studies and Art History for the spring semester. He studied Classical Archaeology (main subject), Ancient History, Papyrology, Epigraphy and Numismatics of the Ancient World at the Universities of Marburg (2000–2002), Rome (2002–2003), Cologne and Bonn (2003–2006). After completing his dissertation “The Basilica Aemilia on the Forum Romanum. The Imperial structure and its architectural decoration” at Cologne in 2008, he received the “Reisestipendium” from the German Archaeological Institute and traveled to large parts of North Africa and the Near East. This was followed by postdoctoral positions in Rome and Munich. He was a Junior Professor for Classical Archaeology in Tübingen and, since 2019, he is a University Professor of Classical Archaeology at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
His research focuses on ancient architecture, sculpture and urbanism in Rome, Pompeii and the northwestern Roman provinces. He has conducted excavations and surveys in Pompeii and Tunisia, as well as research projects at the Roman Forum, the Palatine Hill and the Vatican.
While he is at Penn, he will prepare the results of the so-called Comitium excavations, covering the southeast corner of the forum in Pompeii, for publication with Manuel Flecker.