Prof. Dr. Karen Radner
Lebenslauf
1. Education and qualifications
1990 – 1997:
University of Vienna: 1994 MA in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Archaeology (summa cum laude), 1997 PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Archaeology (summa cum laude)
1993 - 1994:
Free University of Berlin, with a fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service)
2004:
University of Munich: Habilitation
2. Professional history
1997 – 1999:
University of Helsinki: research fellow
1999:
University of Tübingen: research fellow (BAT 2a)
1999 – 2004:
University of Munich: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (C1)
2004 – 2005:
LMU Munich: Wissenschaftliche Oberassistentin (C2)
2005 – 2008:
University College London: lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History
2008 – 2011:
University College London: reader in Ancient Near Eastern History
2011 – 2015:
University College London: professor in Ancient Near Eastern History
since August 2015:
LMU Munich: Alexander von Humboldt Professor in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East (W3)
3. Selected other academic appointments and affiliations
since 1993:
Member of the Assur project of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (Berlin), responsible for the publication of Neo-Assyrian texts; 2001 as part of the excavations at Assur directed by Professor Peter Miglus
since 1997:
Epigrapher of the excavations at Tell Sheikh Hamad (Syria), an archaeological mission of the Free University of Berlin directed by Professor Hartmut Kühne
Member of the Corpus of Neo-Assyrian Texts project (Helsinki)
1997 – 1999:
Staff member of the State Archive of Assyria project (Helsinki), directed by Professor Simo Parpola, as the editor of the Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
1997 – 1998:
Member of the Artemision project (Ephesos) of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (Vienna), directed by Dr Ulrike Muss, working with Archaic ivory finds
2000 – 2002:
Epigrapher of the excavations at Giricano (Turkey), an archaeological mission of the University of Munich directed by Dr Andreas Schachner
2004:
Epigrapher of the archaeological survey at Birkleyn, known as “Tigris Grotto” (Turkey), an archaeological mission of the University of Munich directed by Dr Andreas Schachner
since 2002:
Editorial board, journal Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte (Wiesbaden)
2005 – 2015:
Steering committee of the London Centre of the Ancient Near East
2007 – 2012:
Advisory panel, Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia project (Cambridge), directed by Dr Eleanor Robson
since 2007:
Advisory panel of the “Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period” project (Philadelphia), directed by Prof. Grant Frame
Editorial board, series Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake IN)
Editorial board, series Mesopotamian Civilizations (Winona Lake IN)
Editorial board, series Studien zu den Assur-Texten (Berlin)
2008:
Visiting professor, University of Innsbruck
since 2009
Editorial board, series Studia Chaburensia (Wiesbaden)
Epigrapher of the Shahrizor Survey Project, Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, headed by Dr. Simone Mühl.
2009 – 2015:
Advisory panel and key participant of the Austrian National Research Network “Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom”, directed by Professor Michael Jursa
2010 – 2015:
Editorial board, journal Iraq (London)
since 2013:
Editorial board, Journal of Near Eastern History (New York)
since 2015:
Editorial board, series Biblioteca del Próximo Oriente Antiguo (Madrid)
Editorial board, series Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt (Munich)
Honorary professor, History Department, University College London
Director, Peshdar Plain Project, Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq
Principal Investigator, Distant Worlds: Munich Graduate School for Ancient Studies
Ordentliches Mitglied, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München
since 2016:
Ordentliches Mitglied, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. Selected prizes, awards and grants
1998:
promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae
Honorary Award of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research
1999:
Herta Firnberg Research Award of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research
Three year research fellowship at the University of Vienna (declined)
2000 – 2004:
Several research grants awarded by the University of Munich
2006:
Funding for teaching website project “Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire” awarded by the Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (with Dr Eleanor Robson, Cambridge)
2008:
Provost’s Teaching Award, UCL
Funding for teaching website project “Cuneiform Revealed” awarded by the Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology (with Dr Eleanor Robson, Cambridge)
4-year Major Research Project Grant awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
2009:
Funding for teaching website project “Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire” awarded by the UCL ESCILTA scheme
2011:
Research and development grants awarded by the British Institute of the Study of Iraq for Shahrizor Survey Project
2012:
Several grants awarded by UCL for Shahrizor Survey Project (Grand Challenges: Intercultural Interactions Grant, with Dr David Wengrow; Small Research Grant in the Arts and Humanities, with Dr Mark Altaweel; equipment grant)
2014:
International Award for Research in Germany: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
5. Archaeological fieldwork, including cuneiform epigraphy
Austria (Carnuntum, Dürnberg), Greece (Aigeira, Pleuron), Iraq (Assur), Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq (Shahrizor Survey, Gird-i Bazar), Syria (Tell el-Abd, Tell Sheikh Hamad) and Turkey (Birkleyn Su, Ephesos, Giricano).
6. Museum research
Germany (Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin), France (Louvre), Iraq (Iraq Museum Baghdad), Israel (Bible Lands Museum, École biblique et archéologique française, both Jerusalem), Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq (Archaeological Museum Sulaymanyah), Syria (National Museums of Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor), Turkey (Efes Müzesi Selcuk, squeeze collection of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara) and the United Kingdom (British Museum, Ashmolean Museum Oxford).