Graduate Student Lunch Seminar with PAW Fellow

Every year, the Program invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton. The PAW fellows usually deliver one lecture and one seminar and meet the PAW graduate students in an informal setting, sharing their professional experience.

Informal seminar with small group of PAW graduate students to conversation with 2024-25 PAW Fellow Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner about his academic trajectory and research.

Please send your RSVP to Kristina Corvin at kcorvin@princeton.edu.

Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (AEK) in Munich, which he has chaired since 2023. His research focuses on the history of Late Antiquity, especially the fourth century, questions of statehood and state formation in the Roman Imperial period, Late Roman law, and spatial planning in the cultures of Archaic-Classical Greece.