Maria B. Nowak

Positions and functions

• venia legendi (habilitation): University of Warsaw: 06.2021 (based on M. Nowak, Bastards in Egypt: Social and Legal Illegitiamcy in the Roman Era, Peetres Publishers 2020) granted cum laude.
• doctor juris: University of Warsaw (supervised by prof. Maria Zabłocka): 16.01.2012 (based on a thesis later published as M. Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire: A Documentary Approach, Taubenschalg Foundation 2015) granted cum laude.
• magister juris: Faculty of Law and Administration & College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities, University of Warsaw (supervised by dr Jakub Urbanik): 10.06.2008.

Employment History & Work Experience

• from 1.10.2024: University professor at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw
• 11.2022 – 30.09.2024: University professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
• 10.2023 – 29.02.2024: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bamberg, in the project AntCoCo led by Peter Riedlberger https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/erc-cog-antcoco/the-project/
• 10.2012 – 31.10.2022: Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
• 3–21.09.2021: visiting professorship at the University of Bamberg sponsored by the University of Bamberg within the framework of the Diversity Program focused on gender studies and diversity
• 09.2020–31.08.2021: postdoc fellow at the University of Leiden, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, sponsored by National Agency for Academic Exchange; host: prof. Petra Sijpesteijn
• 10.2017–30.09.2019: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Institute of Papyrology, sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; host: prof. Andrea Jördens
• 1/03/2013–28/02/2014: Postdoctoral fellow at University of Geneva, Chair of Ancient Greek, sponsored by the Swiss SCIEX Program; host: prof. Paul Schubert
• 18/11/2010–16/12/2010: research stay at the University of Oxford financed by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP); host: prof. Boudewijn Sirks
• 1/06/2010–31/10/2010: doctoral scholarship at the University of Cologne, Institute of Roman Law, financed by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD); host: prof. Martin Avenarius

Academic functions and appointments

• 10.2022–30.09.2023: Acting director of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations at the University of Warsaw and a member of the scientific committee of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations at the University of Warsaw: 2019–now
• Vice-chair of the recruiting committee at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences (Discipline Law) at the University of Warsaw: June 2021–June 2022
• Member of the Council of Law Discipline at the University of Warsaw: 2021–2024
• The initiator and member of the Research group for environmental protection and biodiversity at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw: 2019 – 2024
• Chief editor of the journal U schyłku starożytności. Studia Źródłoznawcze [Late Antiquity – Studies in Source Criticism]
• Editorial board member of Warschauer Studien zu römischem Recht und antiker Rechtsgeschichte (Brill)
• Board member of the Taubenschlag Foundation, the publisher of the Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Secretary of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology at the University of Warsaw, 2010–2013

• PI in ‘Law in social networks of late-antique Aphrodito’, 2020–2024, financed by National Science Center (Opus 2019/35/B/HS3/02301)
• PI in ‘Legal networks in the Theban region’, 2020–2021, National Agency for Academic Exchange
• PI in ‘Legal and social status of extramarital children in the Roman Empire before Constantine the Great’, 2016–2020, National Science Center (Sonata 2015/17/D/HS3/00376)
• ‘Romans and non-Romans and the law of succession – unity and particularity in the light of Gnomon of idios logos’, 2013–2014, SCIEX program
• Team member in: ‘Prywatnoprawne aspekty przeciwdziałania przestępczości i pomocy ofiarom przestępstw’, 2020–2023, Minister of Justice
• Team member in: ‘Centro y periferia en el discurso jurídico y la práctica jurídica del Imperio Romano’, 2016–2019, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
• Main collaborator in: Wills and other ways of disposing property mortis causa in late Roman law’, 2009–2012, Ministry of Science and Higher Education

• Distinction for the habilitation work by the journal Państwo i Prawo [State and Law]: June 2022
• 3^rd degree prize of the Rector of the University of Warsaw: November 2021
• Financial reward granted by the Rector to the best University fellows: January 2017
• Financial reward granted by the Rector to the best University fellows: January 2016
• Scholarship for Excellent Young Researchers granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: October 2014–October 2017
• START – scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science – twice: 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
• Grant of Mazovian Voivodeship for doctoral students: 2009.
• Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 2006/2007 and 2008/2009

Monographs

Nowak, Bastards in Egypt Social and Legal Illegitimacy in the Roman Era, Peeters Publishers 2020
– Reviewed in 1. M. Varvaro in Plekos: https://plekos.jimdofree.com/ausgaben/plekos-24-2022/; J. Lenaerts in Latomus 81.1; U. Yiftach in ZRG 141 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zrgr-2024-0025/html
– Distinction for the habilitation work by the journal Państwo i Prawo [State and Law]: June 2022.

Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire. A Documentary Approach, The Taubenschlag Foundation 2015

Reviewed in: 1. E. Buchanan in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.01.02; 2. B. Rochette in Latomus 77.1 (2018) 281–284; 3. D. Anex-Cabanis in Revue historique de droit français et étranger 1 (2018) 152–153; 4. B. Strobel in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte RA 135 (2018) 800–808; 5. C. Clapuyt in Chronique d’Egypte 93 (2018) 411–412

Edited volumes

Berkes, W.G. Claytor, M. Nowak (eds.), Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens, Harrasowitz 2023

Nowak, A. Łajtar, J. Urbanik (eds.), Tell Me Who You Are. Labelling Status in the Graeco-Roman World, Sub Lupa 2017

Benincasa, J. Urbanik (eds.), P. Niczyporuk, M. Nowak (collaboration), Mater Familias: Scritti romanistici per Maria Zabłocka, Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation 2016

Łazicki, M. Nowak, K. Pietruczuk (eds.), Poemat Papirusu z Derveni: wprowadzenie, rekonstrukcje i komentarz, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2008

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Nowak, B. McGing, ‘Selling an inheritance for an under-age owner in 7th century Aphrodite’, Pylon 5 (2024) https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/pylon/article/view/105716/100959

Nowak, C. Balamoshev, L. Vanderheyden, ‘The Greek will of Aurelius Pauchab and a Coptic inventory of household objects. A complete edition of P.Cair.Masp. III 67324: new discoveries on testaments in sixth-century Aphrodito’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 117/3 (2024), pp. 1–28

Nowak, ‘P.Laur. IV 169 recto & verso: re-edition: An epistula of Constantine I and official correspondence’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 53 (20230, pp. 115–124

Nowak, W.G. Claytor, ‘A local will with a “codicillary” clause’, Pylon 4 (2023) https://doi.org/10.48631/pylon.2023.4.101705

Balamoshev, M. Nowak, ‘A 3rd-Century manumissio inter amicos’, Pylon 2 (2022) https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/pylon/article/view/92974

Nowak, ‘A will from Sinkepha (Oxyrhynchites): P. Heid. inv. 939 R + PSI V 4751’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 223 (2022) 120–130

Nowak, ‘Monastic wills from the monastery in St. Phoibammon in Western Thebes – legal and social analysis’, The Journal of Coptic Studies 24 (2022), pp. 283-318

Nowak, ‘A Slave or a generous benefactor? Legal analysis of 8th-century donations of boys from the Monastery of St. Phoibammon in the Western Thebes’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung 139 (2022), pp. 253–289

Nowak, ‘Will of Apollos daughter of Paesis from Oxyrhynchos’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung 138 (2021), pp. 543-554

Kacprzak, M. Nowak, ‘Foundlings in the Greco-Roman world: Status and the (im)possibility of adoption’, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 86 (2018), pp. 13–54

Nowak, ‘Fatherless among οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως – a revision’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 208 (2018), pp. 213–225

Derda, M. Nowak, ‘Will of Ploution son of Ischyrion from Oxyrhynchos, a weaver (?)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 207 (2018), pp. 145-154

Nowak, ‘Get your free corn: The fatherless in the corn-dole archive from Oxyrhynchos’, U schyłku starożytności. Studia źródłoznawcze 16 (2017). Special Issue = M. Nowak, A. Łajtar, J. Urbanik (ed.), Tell Me Who You Are: Labeling Status in the Graeco-Roman World, Warsaw 2018), pp. 215–228

Nowak, ‘Dzieci pozamałżeńskie w świetle źródeł papirusowych z rzymskiego Egiptu’ [= Illegitiamte children in light of papyri from Roman Egypt], U schyłku starożytności. Studia źródłoznawcze 14 (2015), pp. 9–29

Nowak, ‘Ways of describing illegitimate children vs. their legal situation’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 193 (2015), pp. 207–219

Garel, M. Nowak, ‘Mnisze i świeckie testamenty z koptyjskiej Dżeme’ [= Monastic and lay wills from Coptic Jeme], Studia Źródłoznawcze. U Schyłku Starożytności 13 (2014), pp. 191-210

Nowak, ‘Dryton’s wills reconsidered’, Revue Internationale des droits de l’antiquité 59 (2012), pp. 241-251

Derda, M. Nowak, ‘Two wills from Oxyrhynchos’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 42 (2012), pp. 101-115

Nowak, B. Wojciechowski, ‘Elements of legal practice in Christian Nubia’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 42 (2012), pp. 195-228

Nowak, ‘The substitution of heirs in wills from Roman Egypt’, Zeszyty Prawnicze UKSW 12.1 (2012), pp. 173-179

Nowak, ‘Mancipatio and its life in late-Roman law’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 41 (2011), pp. 103-122

Nowak, ‘Titius heres esto. The role of the legal practice in the law-creation in late antiquity’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 40 (2010), pp. 161-184

Nowak, ‘Defining Prostitution in Athenian Legal Rethorics’, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/The Legal History Review 78 (2010), pp. 183-197

Nowak ‘Miejsce prostytucji w ateńskiej sferze ‘sacrum’ w okresie klasycznym’ [= Prositution in the Athenian religion in the classical period], Zeszyty Prawnicze UKSW 9.1 (2009), ss. 123-143

Nowak, ‘Uwagi o prostytucji w Atenach w V i IV w. p.n.e.’ [= Remarks on the prostitution in the 4^th– and 5^th-century Athens], Przegląd historyczny 98 (2008), pp. 329–350

Reviews

Nowak, rev. D. Mantovani/Serena Ammirati (eds.), Giurisprudenza romana nei papiri. Tracce per una ricerca. Pavia University Press, Pavia 2018. VIII, 194 S., ISBN 978-88-6952-083-9, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung 2020, pp. 496–504

Nowak, rev. En marge du Serment hippocratique. Contrats et serments dans le monde gréco-romain [= Collection Papyrologica Leodiensia VII], M.-H. Marganne, A. Ricciardetto (red.), Liège: 2017, Gnomon 92 (2020), pp. 5–8

Chapters

Benincasa, ‘M. Nowak, Outline of the legal situation of persons with mental disabilities (furiosi) in Roman law’, in: M. Domański, B. Lackoroński (eds.), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Private and Criminal Law Aspects, Routledge 2023, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003463016-5/outline-legal-situation-persons-mental-disabilities-furiosi-roman-law-zuzanna-benincasa-maria-nowak

Nowak, T. Derda, Σημασία μαρτύρων: A Document Related to a Roman Will, [in:] L. Berkes, W.G. Claytor, M. Nowak (eds.), Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens, Harrasowitz 2023

Nowak, ‘Citizenship in Roman Egypt before AD 212’, [in:] R. Zelnick-Abramovitz, C. Plastow, J. Filonik (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity(Routledge), submitted invited chapter

Luvre III 192 in: A. Joerdens, Griechische Papyri aus der Sammlung des Louvre (P. Louvre III). Mit Beiträgen von Lajos Berkes, Fritz Mitthof, Maria Nowak und Naïm Vanthieghem. Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2022 (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, Band 47)

Nowak, ‘Village or town? Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt’, [in:] M. Langellotti, D. Rathbone (eds.), Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods, Oxford University Press 2020

Garel, M. Nowak, ‘Monastic wills: The continuation of late Roman legal tradition?’, [in:] M. Choat, M.Giorda (eds.), Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism [= TSEC 9], Brill 2017, pp. 108–128

Nowak, ‘Wpływ nastrojów społecznych na kształtowanie prawa w późnej starożytności. Dzieci pozamałżeńskie w konstytucjach Konstantyna Wielkiego’ [Public opinion vs law making in late Antiquity. Illegitimate children in the laws of Constantine the Great] , [in:] T. Giaro (ed.), Źródła prawa – teoria i praktyka, Beck 2017, pp. 95–116

Nowak, ‘The fatherless and family structure in Roman Egypt’, [in:] D. Leăo, G. Thür, Symposion 2015, Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Coimbra 1–4 Setembro 2015), Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2016, pp. 100–114

Derda, M. Nowak, ‘Will of [—]is daughter of Pachois from Oxyrhynchos. P. Oxy. ii 379 descr.’, [in:] Z. Benincasa, J. Urbanik (eds.), Mater familias. Scritti romanistici per Maria Zabłocka, The Taubenschlag Foundation 2016, pp. 135–143

Nowak, ‘Gnomon, Idios Logos’, [in:] R. Bagnall et alii (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley and Sons 2015 online edition

Nowak, encyclopedic entries: adopcja; apagoge; apokeryksis; Ateny (prawo); atimia; dike; dziedziczenie beztestamentowe; dziedziczenie testamentowe; emporikai dikai; epikleros; Gortyna (prawo); graphe; horkos; hybris; kradzież; małżeństwo (okres klasyczny); metojkowie; moicheia; najem; niewolnicy i wyzwoleńcy (okres klasyczny); nomos; nothos; posag; prawo (greckie); prawo Peryklesa; psephisma; sądownictwo (ateńskie); sprzedaż; szkoda w cudzym majątku; umowa (okres klasyczny); Wielki Kodeks z Gortyny; własność (okres klasyczny); zabójstwo; zaręczyny [in:] W. Wołodkiewicz (red.), Wielka Encyklopedia Prawa, I, Prawa świata antycznego, Warsaw 2014

Nowak, ‘The hereditary rights of the extramarital children in light of the law of papyri’, [in:] B. Caseau, S. Huebner (eds.), Inheritance, Law and Religions in the Ancient and Mediaeval Worlds, ACHCByz 2014, pp. 11–24

Nowak, ‘The function of witnesses in the wills from late antique Egypt’, [in:] P. Schubert (ed.), Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrology Genève, 16–21 août 2010, Geneva, Droz 2012, pp. 573-580

Nowak, ‘Non omnis moriar – the funeral and after-death ceremonies in the light of funerary clauses in Egyptian wills’, [in:] L. Ożarowska, K. Sekita. J. Simon (eds.), Feast, Play and Celebration in the Ancient World, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2011, pp. 117-126

Nowak, ‘Non omnis moriar: Pogrzeby, groby i ceremonie pośmiertne w tekstach prawa rzymskiego’ [= Non omnis moriar. Funerals, tombs and after-death ceremonies in the sources of Roman law], Mówią Wieki 11 (2009), ss. 9–13

Database

Krawczyk & M. Nowak, website and database Roman Bastards Database – http://romanbastards.wpia.uw.edu.pl