Sitta von Reden is Chair of Ancient History and Dean of Studies at the University of Freiburg. Her research and teaching focuses on ancient World History, economic history, Hellenistic Egypt, and the political culture of Greece from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. She has published widely on the monetary history of the ancient world, on comparative economic history and economic ethics of classical and Hellenistic antiquity. She is currently running an interdisciplinary research project on the comparative history of ancient empires. This project, Beyond the Silk Road. Economic Development, Frontier Zones and Inter-Imperiality in the Afro-Eurasian World Region, 300 BCE to 300 CE, is funded by the European Research Council. Since 2011, she has been involved in various other collaborative research projects such as the Collaborative Research Group (SFB) “Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms”. Between 2017-2019, she was co-Principle Investigator of the numismatic project HisMün, which was funded within the framework of the state initiative “Kleine Fächer” in support of minor or ancillary historical disciplines. She is also leading the tri-national teaching project “Connecting – Editing – Programming – Learning: Sowing the Seeds for Joint Teaching and Research in Digital Papyrology, Philology and Ancient History in the European Campus” (CEPL). In addition to her teaching activities at the Department of Ancient History, she teaches at the University College Freiburg, and in the Master’s programme Interdisciplinary Anthropology. In 2012-2016 she was deputy chairperson of the Association of Historians in Germany and since 2016 its treasurer.
