PD Dr. Angela Ganter, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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PD Dr. Angela Ganter

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 29.02.2016
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Social sciences, journalism and information
  • Arts and humanities


Field

Social and behavioural sciences, Humanities



Area of specialisation

Ancient History



Research interests

  • Archaic and Classical Greece

  • Memory Studies

  • Myths

  • Roman Patronage

  • Cults and Emotion



Distinctions and Awards

  • Heisenberg Fellowship, DFG (German Research Foundation), since 2016

  • Postdoctoral scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation, 2011 – 2012

  • Prize granted by the Offermann-Hergarten-Stiftung for the published PhD, 2007

  • PhD scholarship, Cambridge European Trust, 2003 – 2004

  • PhD scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), 2003 – 2006

  • PhD scholarship, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Vormoderne Konzepte von Zeit und Vergangenheit" at the University of Cologne, 2002 – 2003

  • Scholarship awarded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1998 – 1999



Interested in

  • Lectures, Professorship
  • Music (violin)


Languages

ancient Greek, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish



Doctorate

  • 2002: Als Kadmos nach Boiotien kam. Polis und Ethnos im Spiegel thebanischer Gründungsmythen (Hermes Einzelschriften 98), Stuttgart 2006 (When Kadmos came to Boiotia. Polis and ethnos in the mirror of Theban foundation myths)


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2014: Was die römische Welt zusammenhält. Patron-Klient-Verhältnisse zwischen Cicero und Cyprian (Klio / Beihefte. Neue Folge 26), Berlin 2015 (Habilitation; Whatever holds the Roman world together. Patron-Client-Relationships between Cicero and Cyprian)




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1996 – 2002
    Studies of History and Music at the universities of Cologne and Salamanca (Spain)

  • 2002 – 2006
    PhD in Ancient History at the universities of Cologne and Cambridge (UK), Darwin College

  • 2006 – 2008
    Teachers' training (Referendariat)

  • 2008 – 2015
    Assistant professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • 2011 – 2012
    Visiting fellow at the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) Rome

  • 2014
    Habilitation in Ancient History, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • Since 2016
    Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  • 2016 – 2017
    Visiting professor at the University of Dresden (sabbatical replacement position)

Selected publications

Monographies

  • Was die römische Welt zusammenhält. Patron-Klient-Verhältnisse zwischen Cicero und Cyprian (Klio / Beihefte. Neue Folge 26), Berlin 2015.

  • Als Kadmos nach Boiotien kam. Polis und Ethnos im Spiegel thebanischer Gründungsmythen (Hermes Einzelschriften 98), Stuttgart 2006.

Papers

  • Decline and Glorification: Patron-Client Relationships in the Roman Republic, in: M. JEHNE, F. PINA POLO (Hgg.), Foreign clientelae in the Roman empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Stuttgart 2015, 43-54.

  • Boiotia and the Boiotian Leagues (with H. BECK), in: H. BECK, P. FUNKE (edd.), Federalism in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge 2015, 132-157.

  • Ethnicity and Local Myth, in: J. MCINERNEY (ed.), A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Malden/Oxford/Chichester 2014, 228–240.

  • A Two-Sided Story of Integration: The cultic dimension of Boeotian ethnogenesis, in: P. FUNKE, M. HAAKE (edd.), Greek Federal States and their Sanctuaries. Identity and Integration. Proceedings of an International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” Held in Münster, 17.06.-19.06.2010, Stuttgart 2013, 85–105.



Complete list of publications

Selected projects

  • Cults and Emotion in the Greco-Roman World

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands (VHD, Association of German Historians)

  • Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV, German Association of University Professors and Lecturers)

  • Mommsengesellschaft (association of German Scholars related to Greek and Roman Antiquities)

Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements

Other activities and achievements/family

  • Married, two children


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