Ute Wartenberg

Ute Wartenberg
Wartenberg in 2021
Born1963 (age 60–61)[2]
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Saarbrücken (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
ThesisSome papyri from Oxyrhynchus (1990)
Academic work
DisciplinePapyrology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
British Museum
American Numismatic Society
Columbia University
President of the American Numismatic Society
Assumed office
24 October 2020[3]
Preceded bySydney F. Martin

Ute Wartenberg FSA (born 1963) is a German numismatist and the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society (ANS). Wartenberg serves as an adjunct professor of classics at Columbia University and as the curator of the Amastris Collection, a private collection of Greek coins.[4]

Wartenberg obtained her DPhil in Papyrology and Classical Literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there.[1][5] After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role, before being elected as the ANS President in 2020.

  1. ^ a b "Alumni Profile: Ute Wartenberg Kagan" (PDF). The Rhodes Trust. June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Ute Wartenberg Kagan". The British Museum. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  3. ^ "American Numismantic Society Governance FY2021". Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. ^ Gilkes, Paul (8 November 2019). "Wartenberg steps down after two decades as ANS executive director". Coin World. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Ute Wartenberg Becomes First Female ANS President". Coins Weekly. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.