Dr. Stephanie Döpper

Stephanie Döpper is Junior Professor for Digital Humanities for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen in 2015, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Universities of Leiden and Frankfurt on the reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia and on settlement systems in central Oman. Her research interests include digital archaeology, landscape archaeology, the archaeology of mobility, pottery studies, and mortuary practices. Since 2010 she has been conducting research in the Sultanate of Oman, excavating Bronze Age and Islamic sites in Bat, Al-Ayn, Al-Khashbah and other sites in Wilayat Al-Mudhaybi.

Key publications: 1. Döpper, S. (2024) Landmarks of Identity – Bronze Age Towers of the Oman Peninsula. The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 13. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2. Döpper, S. (2023), The Reuse of Tombs in Eastern Arabia, Arabia Orientalis 6. Oxford: Archaeopress. 3. Döpper, S. (2019) (ed.) Beyond Tombs and Towers. Domestic Architecture of the Umm an-Nar Period in Eastern Arabia. Arabia Orientalis 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.