Team

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław, educated in Wrocław (University of Wrocław) and Liverpool (University of Liverpool). I have published extensively on Greek epigraphic culture and honorific habit, my last publication is a prize-winning monograph on Hellenistic and Roman Delphi (Honorific culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Brill 2021).

Joanna Wegner obtained a master’s degree in Archaeology in 2012 and a PhD in History in 2017. Since then, she has been working on projects focusing on socio-economic history of the Church and the monastic movement in Egypt: Monks and Monastic Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean (4th–8th c.), headed by Ewa Wipszycka-Bravo, and Clergy in a Society: Presbyters, Deacons and the Lower Clergy within the Social and Economic Structures of Late Antique and Early Arab Egypt (4th–8th c.), where she was the principal investigator. In her research, which has been centered around papyrological documentation in Greek and Coptic, she attempted to contextualize the development of ecclesiastical and monastic institutions against the background of late antique Egyptian social networks and hierarchies. Her monograph, Monastic Communities in Context: Monasteries, Economy, and Society in Late Antique Egypt, appeared in 2021. Alongside Tomasz Derda, Joanna was also involved in the publication of papyri from the monastery of Deir el-Naqlun and a collection of ostraca documenting construction works from ‘Marea’/Philoxenite in Egypt. During her career she also worked on inscriptions connected to the imperial cult on Cyprus, and the epigraphy of the city of Byzantion in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. She is passionate about classical music, traditional Japanese theater, and her two cats.