Staff profile

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on the role of the Roman family and household in late antique church conflicts, especially in the Greek metropolis of Constantinople and the Syriac speaking provinces of the Near East. My project concerns the impact that divisions within late antique Christianity had on both the real and the imagined world of the Roman household – the domus – and how, conversely, the mechanisms and conceptualisations of the domus shaped the ecclesiastical conflicts of late antiquity.

Previous to my current position, I was working as a temporary lecturer for Roman History at the University of Bristol. At the same time, I held a postdoctoral visiting fellowship at King's College London as well as the 'Germanicus Fellowship' which was generously funded by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. 

My book 'Dissenting Voices. Rewriting Past and Present in Socrates' and Sozomen's Ecclesiastical Histories' will be out this year with Cambridge University Press. It examines how these two authors, who present us with the macro-narratives for much of late antiquity, modelled traumatic pasts in agreement with the conflicting identities of marginalised religious communities and their complicated relationship with the imperial centre. It reveals new insights into the diversity and fissures of the discursive landscape and memory formation in fifht-century Constantinople otherwise stifled by the writings of more conformist authors. 

I further have published on a variety of different aspects of late antique history, from conceptualisation of later Roman urbanism and the archaeology of late antique sea trade, to patterns of religious violence in North Africa and the use of intertextuality in church historiography as a literary means to construct inclusive and exclusive religious identities.

Authored book

• Dissenting Voices. Rewriting Past and Present in Socrates' and Sozomen's Ecclesiastical Histories
  
  Dahm, K. (in press). Dissenting Voices. Rewriting Past and Present in Socrates’ and Sozomen’s Ecclesiastical Histories. Cambridge University Press.

Book review

• Drijvers, J.W. The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian. 363–364. History and Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  
  Dahm, K. (in press). Drijvers, J.W. The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian. 363–364. History and Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Fides et Historia, 55(1).
• Book Review: Hollerich, M.J. Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of California Press)
  
  Dahm, K. (in press). Book Review: Hollerich, M.J. Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of California Press). Histos, 18.
• Review of 'Shedd, M./Tandy, S./Schott, J. Remembering Nicaea. The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus (Atlanta: SBL Press)'
  
  Dahm, K. (2026). Review of ’Shedd, M./Tandy, S./Schott, J. Remembering Nicaea. The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus (Atlanta: SBL Press)’. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
• Kim, Y.R. The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  
  Dahm, K. (2021). Kim, Y.R. The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Classical Review, 71, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X21001256
• Warnking, P. Der römische Seehandel zu seiner Blütezeit. Rahmenbedingungen, Seerouten, Wirtschaftlichkeit (Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2015)
  
  Dahm, K. (2018). Warnking, P. Der römische Seehandel zu seiner Blütezeit. Rahmenbedingungen, Seerouten, Wirtschaftlichkeit (Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2015). Göttinger Forum Für Altertumswissenschaften, 1001–1006.

Chapter in book

• A Night to Remember. The Christian Reception of Thucydides’ 'Night-Battle'
  
  Dahm, K. (in press). A Night to Remember. The Christian Reception of Thucydides’ ’Night-Battle’. In M. Carandino & S. Nastasi (Eds.), Christianising and Christianised Images. Brill.
• Out with His Eye? Maiming Bishops During the Donatist Controversy
  
  Dahm, K. (in press). Out with His Eye? Maiming Bishops During the Donatist Controversy. In Justice Carved into the Body. Maiming Corporal Punishment in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Franz Steiner Verlag.
• A Tale of Many Cities (and their Copies). Depictions of ‘Cities’ and ‘Forts’ in the Notitia Dignitatum
  
  Dahm, K. (n.d.). A Tale of Many Cities (and their Copies). Depictions of ‘Cities’ and ‘Forts’ in the Notitia Dignitatum. In Ruling an Empire in a Changing World. Studies on Origin, Impact, and Reception of the Notitia Dignitatum [Contracted by publisher]. Herder.

Journal Article

• Evagrius Ponticus, No Classmate of John Chrysostom
  
  Dahm, K. (in press). Evagrius Ponticus, No Classmate of John Chrysostom. Studia Patristica.
• No Voice of Reason. Socrates of Constantinople’s adaptation of Athanasius of Alexandria as a Source for His Ecclesiastical History
  
  Dahm, K. (2023). No Voice of Reason. Socrates of Constantinople’s adaptation of Athanasius of Alexandria as a Source for His Ecclesiastical History. Journal of Late Antiquity, 16(1), Article 74–105. https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2023.0004
• Commotion, Rebellion, and War. Eusebius of Caesarea’s Narrative of Jewish Violence Against Roman Rule in His Ecclesiastical History
  
  Dahm, K. (2021). Commotion, Rebellion, and War. Eusebius of Caesarea’s Narrative of Jewish Violence Against Roman Rule in His Ecclesiastical History. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 29(4), 495-523. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2021.0036
• Amphorenladungen spätantiker Schiffswracks im westlichen Mittelmeerraum. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Rekonstruktion römischen Seehandels
  
  Dahm, K. (2018). Amphorenladungen spätantiker Schiffswracks im westlichen Mittelmeerraum. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Rekonstruktion römischen Seehandels. Antiquité Tardive, 25, 215–236.

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Darstellungen von Toren auf Münzen aus konstantinischer Zeit – Ein dynastisches Konzept im Zeichen spätantiker Grenzbefestigung?
  
  Dahm, K. (2018, January 31). Darstellungen von Toren auf Münzen aus konstantinischer Zeit – Ein dynastisches Konzept im Zeichen spätantiker Grenzbefestigung? [Pecunia Numismatic Online Database]