Nirvana Silnović
Ph.D.MA, MA
APART-GSK Excellence Fellowship
Nirvana Silnović
Ph.D.MA, MA
APART-GSK Excellence Fellowship
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- RG »Religious Studies«
- +43 1 51581 3468
- nirvana.silnovic(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studied art history at the University of Zagreb with a focus on cults in Roman provinces (2013). Continued her studies at the CEU, Budapest/Vienna, with a focus on late antiquity (2014). Completed doctorate at CEU in 2022, with a focus on cults in Roman provinces. Since 2021 research associate at the OeAI. Currently leading two projects: an investigation of Carl Patsch's correspondence (since 2024), and research on the Mithras cult in Roman Dalmatia (since 2025).
Research Projects
- »Colours Revealed – Polychromy of Roman Monuments in the Danubian Provinces (PolychroMon)«
- »Danubian Riders´ – Studies on a syncretistic cult in Pannonia and Moesia superior«
- Networks of knowledge: Carl Patsch's Correspondence and the Intellectual History of Early 20th-Century Bosnia and Herzegovina (MA7)
- The Global, the Local, and the In-Between: the Cult of Mithras in the Roman Province of Dalmatia (APART-GSK)
- HIEROTOPOI
Research interests
- Cults and religion in the Roman provinces
- Stone monuments of the Roman Danube provinces
- Interdisciplinary research on stone monuments of the Roman provinces
- Roman provincial archaeology
- History of Archaeology in Bosnia and Herzegovina