Alumni Fellows
Korshi Dosoo
Korshi Dosoo received his doctorate in ancient history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 2015. He has since been ATER (lecturer) at the University of Strasbourg, post-doctoral researcher on the Labex RESMED project “Les mots de la paix”, and from 2018-2023 was the leader of the junior research group “The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt” at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. His research focuses on magic and lived religion in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to Mamluk periods as revealed by papyrological and epigraphic sources. His work on the MagEIA project will explore the question of the development and representation of magic in Christian Egypt.
Sevgül Çilingir Cesur
Sevgül Çilingir Cesur's area of research is Hittite magical rituals and the comparative analysis of these texts in terms of paraphernalia, concepts of time and space. In her dissertation, she studied a selected group of ritual material from CTH 390-470 with a holistic approach. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg, where she worked on concepts of time in Hittite ritual texts. Dr. Cesur is currently working on the publication of the unpublished Bo fragments from the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara. Since 2017, she has been a full-time lecturer at Ege University. In her MagEIA project, she will work on subsidiary actors and observe their roles in order to portray the diversity of individuals in Hittite magical practices.
