Function within the Cluster:

Curriculum Vitae:

since 10/1988 Professor (C4) of Ancient History and Director of the Institute of Ancient History, the Institute of Epigraphy and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprian Studies; Director of the Research Centre ‘Historical Studies of Ancient Greece’ (Historische Landeskunde des antiken Griechenland), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster
10/1985-09/1988 Professor (C3) of Ancient History, Universität Siegen
06/1985 Postdoctoral Degree (Habilitation) in Ancient History, Universität zu Köln
05/1978-09/1985 Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Universität Köln
05/1978 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Ancient History, Universität Köln
01/1975-05/1978 Research Assistant, Institute for Ancient History, Universität zu Köln
11/1974 First State Examination (History, German Philology, and Literature), WWU Münster
12/1969-10/1974 Studies of History, German Philology, and Literature, WWU Münster

Memberships:

since 2011 Respresentative of the President, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
since 2011 Board of Directors, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem/Amman
since 2010 Board of Trustees, Historical College (Historisches Kolleg), Munich
since 2010 Vice President and Member of the Senate Committee on Strategic Planing, DFG
2009-2010 Expert-Commission ‘Infrastructure for Reasearch in the Humanities’, Wissenschaftsrat, Berlin
since 2007 Board of Directors and (since 2011) Executive Committee, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
since 2007 Committee ‘Basic Research Ancient World’, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, Berlin
since 2007 Project Supervisor of the Research Centre ‘Inscriptiones Graecae’, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, Berlin
since 2006 Core Group and Standing Committee for the Humanities, European Science Foundation
since 2005 Advisory Board ‘Clio-Online’
since 2005 Academic Advisor for the Humanities, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
2005-2010 Member of the Senate, the Joint Committee and the Senate Committee on Strategic Planing, DFG
2004-2008 Chairman, Association of the German Historians (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands – VHHD)
2004-2005 Coordinator, Review Board ‘Ancient Cultures’, DFG
since 2003 Advisory Board and (since 2008) Chairman, Review Journal ‘sehepunkte
2003-2006 Expert-Commission ‘Humanities’, Wissenschaftsrat, Berlin
2001-2009 Selection Committee of the German-Italian Exchange Programme (Vigoni-Programm), DAAD
2000-2002 Member, Collaborative Research Centre 1776 ‘Functions of Religion in Ancient Near Eastern Societies’ (SFB 1776 ‘Funktionen von Religion in antiken Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients’)
since 1997 Advisory Board and (since 2005) Chairman, Cusanuswerk
1997 International Academy of Educational Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
1996-2004 Reviewer for Ancient History and (since 2000) Vice Chairman, Classical Studies Review Board, DFG
1995-2010 DFG Liaison Professor, WWU Münster
1992-2000 Vice-Chairman, Association of the German Historians
1994 Honorary Member, Latvian University, Riga (Latvia)
1990-1994 Vice-Chancellor, WWU Münster
since 1989 Executive Board, Ernst-Kirsten-Gesellschaft (International Society for Historical Geography of the Ancient World)
1988-2011 Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy, German Archaeological Institute, Munich
since 1988 Member of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin

Publications (Selection):

  • Überregionale Heiligtümer – Orte der Begegnung mit dem Fremden, in: R. Rollinger and K. Schnegg (eds.), Kulturkontakte in antiken Welten. Vom Denkmodell zur Fallstudie (Colloquia Antiqua), Leuven (accepted, forthcoming in 2011).
  • Bürgerschaft und Bürgersein – Teilnehmen als Teilhaben, in: K.-J. Hölkeskamp and E. Stein-Hölkeskamp (eds.), Die griechische Welt. Erinnerungsorte der Antike, Munich 2010, pp. 472-486.
  • Integration und Abgrenzung. Vorüberlegungen zu den politischen Funktionen überregionaler Heiligtümer in der griechischen Staatenwelt, in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 11 (2009), pp. 285-297.
  • (ed. with N. Luraghi) The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League, Cambridge, MA 2009.
  • (ed. with Lukas de Blois and Johannes Hahn) The Impact of Imperial Rome in Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire. Proceedings from the Fifth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 B.C.-A.D. 476). Münster, June 30 – July 4, 2004 (Impact of Empire, vol. 5), Leiden et al. 2006.
  • (ed. with Klaus Freitag and Matthias Haake) Kult – Politik – Ethnos: Überregionale Heiligtümer im Spannungsfeld von Kult und Politik (Historia Einzelschriften, vol. 189), Stuttgart 2006.
  • Gli ombelichi del mondo. Riflessioni sulla canonizzazione dei santuari “panellenici”, in: Geographia Antiqua, vol. 12 (2003 [2005]), pp. 57-65.
  • Athen in klassischer Zeit, Munich 1999, 20073 (Italian edition: Milan 2001; Spanish edition: Madrid 2001).
  • Polisgenese und Urbanisierung in Aitolien im 5. und 4. Jh. v. Chr., in: M. H. Hansen (ed.), The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community (Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre, vol. 4), Copenhagen 1997, pp. 145-188.
  • Homónoia und Arché. Athen und die griechische Staatenwelt vom Ende des Peloponnesischen Krieges bis zum Königsfrieden (404/3-387/6 v. Chr.) (Historia Einzelschriften, vol. 37), Wiesbaden 1980.

Contact

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