Sabine Hübner

Sabine Renate Hübner (born 1976) is professor of Ancient History and head of department at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She is an expert on the religious and social history of antiquity, particularly of Greco-Roman Egypt.

Early life and education Born in Osnabrück (Germany), Huebner studied History and Classics in Münster, Rome, Berlin, Jena, and London (MA Münster, 2001; PhD Jena, 2005; Habilitation FU Berlin, 2010). She received her PhD from the University of Jena in 2005. Her thesis was entitled Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens (The Clergy in the Society of Late Antique Asia Minor). Her doctoral supervisor was . In 2011/12, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, in 2011/12 membre eluée at the "Orient et Méditerranée" at the Collège de France, Paris, and in 2012/13 visiting scholar at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae and the British School at Rome.

Career Huebner has published on Roman and later Roman social history, Roman Egypt, early Christianity and the ancient family. At the University of Basel she heads the Department of Ancient Civilizations and the Institute of Ancient History. She is Member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study, served as the general secretary of the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (FIEC), board member of the Schweizerische Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft / Association Suisse pour l'Étude de l'Antiquité ( SVAW/ASEA) and board member of the Schweizerische Patristische Arbeitsgemeinschaft / Groupe suisse d'études patristiques (GSEP) and one of the general editors of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford 2012–2015). From 2023 until 2028 she will be the general editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity.

Huebner has lead several projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 1) the edition of the Basel papyrus collection (2015–2018), Egypt at the transition from the Byzantine to early Arab world, 6th to 8th centuries (2016–2019), 3) The Roman Egypt Lab: Climate Change, Societal Transformations, and the Transition to Late Antiquity, 4) the Urban Biographies Project, 5) the Basel Climate Science & Ancient History Lab , and most recently the Roman Villa as Ecosystem: Climate, Production, and Society in the Sabina Tiberina

She was invited visiting professor at the Central European University in 2015, invited Visiting Professor and Stewart Fellow in Religion at Princeton University in 2018, the RD Milns Invited Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland at Brisbane in 2019, a Visiting Professorship (Category A "outstanding researchers or professors") at Università La Sapienza in Rome in 2024, and a 2024-25 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

She has four children with , a French screenwriter.