Function within the Cluster:
- Principal Investigator
- Head of project C2 Partisan Gods – Competing Gods. The Role of Cults and Shrines in Ancient International Treaties
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
Prof. Dr. Peter FunkeHistory Department
Department of Ancient History/Institute for Epigraphy
Domplatz 20-22
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-24367
Fax: +49 251 83-24363
funkep@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours : Mittwoch, 12.00-13.00 Uhr (Anmeldung per Liste oder E-Mail)

