Nikolaus Hochstein Cox, MPhil.

Contact: [Email protection active, please enable JavaScript.]

PhD dissertation project

“From Hajj Forts to Hinterland: Understanding the impact of Ottoman influence upon indigenous communities in Southern Transjordan through tracing the distribution of late Ottoman (1798-1918) material culture from centralised points of imperial control into local Arab communities”

Supervisor: Bethany Walker (Islamic Archaeology Unit, Bonn)

Education

•  2021-present – PhD (Islamic Archaeology): Rheinische Friedrisch-Wilhems-Universität Bonn, Germany
  
• 2016-2017 – MPhil (Palaeolithic Archaeology): Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Dissertation Title: Socio-Cultural Change and Stasis in the Middle Danube Basin and Eastern European Plain across the Last Glacial Maximum / Distributions of Upper Palaeolithic Human Groups in Central and Eastern Europe Determined through Ornamental Assemblages)
  
• 2012/2014 – BA (Double Major: Political Science and International Relations, Minor: Cultural Anthropology): Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 

• 10/2021 – Universität Bonn & Jordanian Department of Antiquities: Madaba Plains Project | Tal Hisban, Jordan | Square Supervisor
  
• 02-03/2020 – Forgotten Fortress Project | Kolombangara, Solomon Islands | Director
  
• 09/2017 – University of Cambridge: Montelabate Project | Montelabate, Italy | Field Technician
  
• 07/2011 – Universidad de Valladolid: Archaeospain Project | Pintia, Spain | Field Archaeologist
  

• 08/2021 – Discovery Channel | United Kingdom | Documentary Contributor
• 11/2020-03/2021 – Archäologie Hofmann & Heigermoser GbR | Germany | Field Archaeologist
• 08-10/2020 – Archaeology Wales | United Kingdom | Field Supervisor
• 02/2019-02/2020 – Cambridge Archaeological Unit | United Kingdom | Field Archaeologist
• 04/2018-02/2019 – Oxford Archaeology East | United Kingdom | Field Archaeologist

Additional Professional Experience

• 10/2021-present – Instinction | New Zealand | Voice Actor & Concept Artist
• 04/2021-present – Opera Wire | United States of America | Copy Editor
  
• 01/2021-present – Self-employed | Worldwide | Freelance illustrator
• 07-10/2020 – Bare Opera | United States of America | Librettist
• 11/2017-04/2018 – Westminster Publications | United Kingdom | Senior Correspondent
• 01-04/2016 – Bolivia Travel Channel | Bolivia | Journalist and Editor
• 09/2015-04/2016 – Bolivian Express | Bolivia | Journalist and Editor

Publications

• Hochstein Cox, Nikolaus and Andrew Petersen. “The Sacred Journey” Yunus Emre Institute, United Kingdom (Nov. 2021 – Dec. 2021)
• Hochstein Cox, Nikolaus and Andrew Petersen. “The Story of Imam Dur” British Institute for the Study of Iraq, United Kingdom (Oct. 2020 – Jan. 2021)
• Hochstein Cox, Nikolaus. “Kolombangara: Surveying a Forgotten Second World War Fortress.” Current World Archaeology, No. 103 (2020): 30-37.

Languages

• English (native)
• Spanish (professional)
  
• German (intermediate)