1 Katharina Waldner Prof. Dr. Phil. Professor of Religious Studies/Ancient Religions Seminar für Religionswissenschaft Universität Erfurt Office Address: Home Address: Universität Erfurt Storchmühlenweg 18 Seminar für Religionswissenschaft D-99089 Erfurt Postfach 90 02 21 Germany D-99105 Erfurt Germany Phone Numbers: 0049/361/737/4141 (office), 0049/361/789 765 30 (home) Fax: 0049/361/737/4129 Email: [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE Katharina Maria Waldner Born January 28 1965, St. Gallen/Switzerland Nationality : Swiss Lic. Phil. Zurich (1993); Dr. Phil. Zurich (1997), Habilitation (Erfurt 2008) II. Higher Education • Habilitation, Erfurt University 2008 (venia legendi: “Religionswissenschaft und Antike Religionen”, Religious Studies and Religions of Antiquity) • Dr. Phil., Zurich University, 1997 • Lic. Phil. (Greek Literature and Language; Latin Literature and Language; Archaeology), Zurich University, 1993 III. Professional Awards and Distinctions /Fundraising • Membership in the “Lehren Jahresprogramm 2016” (Alfred Toepfer-Stiftung) with the teaching project: „Systematische Religionswissenschaft als interkulturelle Religionskompetenz: Eine neue Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft.“ • International Conference “Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire”, Erfurt 17th to 19th of September 2012, 9200 Euro external funds from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (with Prof. Spickermann, Max- Weber-Kolleg) • Permanent guest fellow of the Max-Weber-Kolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies, Erfurt University), 2009 - present 2 • Research Fellowship of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(German Research Foundation) in the Research Program „Römische Reichs- und Provinzialreligion“ (Religion of the Roman Empire and its Provinces) Erfurt University, 2002 – 2006 (150’000 Euro external funds from the German Resarch Foundation) • Visiting scholar at the Centre Louis Gernet, Paris (DAAD), November – December 2006 • Postdoc Research Fellowship of the „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (German Research Foundation) Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich, 1997-1998 • Doctoral Fellowship of the „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (German Research Foundation), University of Munich, 1994 -1996 IV. Professional Experience • Chair of Religious Studies/Ancient Religions, Erfurt University, October 09 - present (W2) • Director of the research and study programm „Kulturwissenschaft der Antike“ (Cultural Studies and the Ancient World), Basel University, April 08 - October 09 • Interim Professor of Religious Study, October 08 - March 08 • Assistant Professor “Theorie und Geschichte antiker Religionen” (Theory and History of Ancient Religions), Erfurt University, Department of Religious Studies, October 07 - October 08 • Coordinator and lecturer at the graduate school of the “Interdisziplinäres Forum Religion” (Interdisciplinary Research Team on Religion), Erfurt University, Department of Religious Studies, April 07 - October 07. • Research Fellow and University Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Erfurt University, 2002 - 2006 • Visiting Lecturer, Basel University, Department of Classics, 2003/4; 2005/6; 2014 • Visiting Lecturer, Würzburg University, Faculty of Theology, 2001 • Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (Assistant Professor), Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich University, Department of Classics, 2001 - 2002 • Humboldt-University Berlin, Department of Classics, Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (Assistant Professor), 1998 -2001 V. Administrative Experience • Head of Department, Department of Religious Studies, Erfurt University, October 2009 – October 2014 • Director of Studies in the MA programme Ancient Religions, January 2012 - present) • Director of the PhD-Research Group Religious and Cultural Transfer in the Ancient World, January 2013 - present • Member of the university senate, July 2011 - 2014 • Equal opportunity commissioner of the Faculty of Philosophy, October 2009 - July 2011 • Director of the research and study programm „Kulturwissenschaft der Antike“ (Cultural Studies and the Ancient World), Basel University, April 08 - October 09 • Coordinator of the “Interdisziplinäres Forum Religion” (Interdisciplinary Research Team on Religion), Erfurt University, Department of Religious Studies, April 07 - October 07. 3 VI. Teaching 1 University of Erfurt, Department of Religious Studies (2009-present) 2015 • Ritual-Theater-Spiel (BA Religious Studies) • Death and Burial in Religious Pluralism (MA Religious Studies) • Religion in der Ur- und Frühgeschichte (with Dr. Michael-Sturmberger, BA Studium Fundamentale) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof. Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History 2014 • Early Christianity: Religious conflicts and discourses (MA Ancient Religion) • Antike Mysterienkulte (BA Ancient Religion, Ancient History) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof. Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) 2013/14 • Einführung in die Kulturgeschichte Europäischer Polytheismen (BA Ancient Religion) • Theory and Method of Religious Studies (MA Religious Studies) • Reading Latin Sources on Ancient Religions (MA Ancient Religion) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I ((lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof. Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) • 2013 • Gottesbeweise (BA Interdisciplinary class, with Prof. Dr. G Löhrer, Philosophy) • Religious Pluralism on the Iberan Peninsula (MA-Religious Studies, with Christiane Fiebig, Islamic Studies) Religionswissenschaftliche Texte lessen (BA-Religious Studies) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft II (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof. Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) • 4 2012/13 • Einführung in die Kulturgeschichte Europäischer Polytheismen (BA Ancient Religion) • Theory and Method of Religious Studies (MA Religious Studies) Reading Latin Sources on Ancient Religions (MA Ancient Religions) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (MA/Phd Ancient Religion, with Prof. Dr. Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) 2012 • Engel, Dämonen, Zwischenwesen (BA Religious Studies) • Mythos Tibet, (BA Religious Studies, shared with Cornelia Haas, Indology) • Reading Latin Sources on Ancient Religions (MA Ancient Religions) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft II (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof. Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) 2011/12 • Ancient Mystery Cults and Ideas on Afterlife (MA Ancient Religions) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Europäische Religionsgeschichte I (introductory lecture on Ancient Religions, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof.Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) 2011 • Krankheit und Heilung in der antiken Religion (BA Religious Studies) • Religionsgeschichte in Erfurt (Interdisciplinary class, with Prof.Sabine Schmolinsky, Medieveal History) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft II (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof.Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) 2010/11 • Theory and Method of Religious Study (MA Religious Studies) • Religion and the Body in Ancient Cultures, international graduate seminar („Spring School“), with Prof.Jörg Rüpke and Prof. Charlotte Fonrobert (Standford) • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Europäische Religionsgeschichte I (introductory lecture on Ancient Religions, BA Religious Studies) 5 • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof.Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) • Theory and Method of Religious Study (MA Religious Studies) • Religion and the Body in Ancient Cultures, international graduate seminar („Spring School“), with Prof.Jörg Rüpke and Prof. Charlotte Fonrobert (Standford) 2010 • Emerging Ritual: Die Ritualtheorie von Ronald Grimes (interdisciplinary seminar with Prof. Benedikt Kranemann, Faculty of Theology) • New Approaches to Ancient Religions (MA Ancient Religions • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft II (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Wissenschaftspropädeutik (introductory lecture for all BA-programms of the faculty) • Kolloquium zur antiken Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte (research seminar for MA and PhD candidates, with Prof.Veit Rosenberger, Ancient History) 2009/10 • Einführung in die systematische Religionswissenschaft I (lecture with tutorial, BA Religious Studies) • Europäische Religionsgeschichte I (introductory lecture on Ancient Religions,