Prof. Dr. Joseph Maran - Vita
Born 6 September 1957 in Frankfurt on Main
Full Professor of Prehistory and Early History,
University of Heidelberg, Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology
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University degrees and positions
1985 | PhD, University of Heidelberg, in Pre- and Protohistory |
1986-1987 | Contract with the Antiquity Service of the state of Hessen, Wiesbaden |
1987-1988 | Research associate in the project “Thessaly” at the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, University of Heidelberg |
1989-1991 | Research associate in the project “Kiapha Thiti” at the Seminar for Classical Archaeology, University of Marburg |
1991-1993 | Habilitation grant, German Research Foundation |
1993-1994 | Assistant at the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Heidelberg University |
1994-1996 | Academic Curator, Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, University of Bonn |
1995 | Habilitation, University of Bonn |
1994-today | Director of the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute at Tiryns |
1996-today | Full Professor (C4) of Pre- and Protohistory, University of Heidelberg |
2000-2003 | Dean of the Faculty of Oriental and Ancient Studies, University of Heidelberg |
2006-2015 | Principal investigator in the Research Cluster “Political Space” of the German Archaeological Institute |
2007-2019 | Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, University of Heidelberg |
2013-2017 | Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, University of Heidelberg |
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Awards and Honors
- Trude Dothan Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, fellowship 2004 (Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem)
- Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, since 2006
- W. Kendrick Pritchett Lecturer of the University of California in Berkeley, November 2012
- Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2013
- Honorary research advisor of the Archaeological Society of Athens, since 2014
- Foreign Member of the Academy of Athens, since 2017
- Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2019
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Funded Projects (selected)
- Excavations at Tiryns (German Archaeological Institute, 1994-)
- Untersuchungen zur Keramikproduktion und –distribution mykenischer Keramik mit Hilfe der Neutronenaktivierungsanalyse (with Hans Mommsen; German Ministry of Education and Research, 1994-1997)
- Architekturbefunde und Stratigraphie der Phase Späthelladisch (SH) III B und der beginnenden Phase SH III C in der Unterburg von Tiryns (German Research Council, 1995-99)
- Settlement History and Landscape Evolution in the Basin of Phlious (Korinthia, Southern Greece) (with Günther Wagner and Andreas Lang; German Ministry of Education and Research, 1998-2002)
- Signs of Supremacy. Archaeology and Sociology of Power (with Hermann Schwengel; Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolleg Heidelberg, State of Baden-Württemberg, 2004-05)
- Raumbilder und Bildräume. Mykenische Paläste als performativer Raum, First Project Phase (with Alkestis Papadimitriou and Ulrich Thaler; Research Cluster “Political Space”, German Archaeological Institute, 2006-2009)
- Excavations in the Western Lower Town of Tiryns (Institute for Aegean Prehistory [Philadelphia], 2006-2010)
- Materiality and Practice: Cultural Entanglements of 2nd millennium BC East Mediterranean Societies (with Markus Hilgert, Peter Miglus and Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, 2008-2010)
- Raumbilder und Bildräume. Mykenische Paläste als performativer Raum, Second Project Phase (with Alkestis Papadimitriou and Ulrich Thaler; Research Cluster “Political Space”, German Archaeological Institute, 2010-2015)
- Hypothesis-testing of Earthquake Ruined Argolid Constructions and Landscape with Engineering Seismology (HERACLES): Archäoseismologische Untersuchungen in Tiryns und Midea“ (with Hans-G. Hinzen; Thyssen and Henkel Foundation; 2012-2014)
- Elite Consumption in the Palace of Tiryns: Research on undecorated Mycenaean Pottery and the Social Significance of Pottery in a Political Center of the 13th and 12th cents. BCE (Thyssen Foundation; 2010-2012)
- Negotiating Change – Cultural and Social Transformations in the Late 2nd Millennium BCE East Mediterranean: Case Studies from Tiryns, Greece, and Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (with Aren Maeir; German-Israeli Foundation; 2011-2013)
- Appropriating Innovations: Entangled Knowledge in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Eurasia (with Peter Miglus and P. Stockhammer, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, 2013-2015)
- Excavations in the Northwestern Lower Town of Tiryns (German Research Foundation, 2014-2018)
- Interculturality and Migration in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant (with Philipp Stockhammer; Pilot Project, FRONTIER-program, University of Heidelberg, 2013-2016)
- Tiryns – Das «mykenische Versailles»: Bauhistorische Untersuchung der Unterburgmauer von Tiryns (Thyssen Foundation, 2018-2020)
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Membership in Advisory Boards and Steering Committees
- Central Directorate of the German Archaeological Institute (2005-2015)
- Member of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (since 2016)
- Advisory Board of the Zentrum Archäologie und Altertumswissenschaften, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2007-2012)
- Head of the Advisory Board of the Centre „Oriental and East Mediterranean Archaeology (OREA)” (2013-2016)
- Steering Committee of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (2008-2009).
- Co-editor of the Periodical “Gnomon” (since 2011)
- Co-editor of the Series “Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (2012-2017)
- Advisory Board of the Periodical “Archäologischer Anzeiger” (2006-2014)
- Advisory Board of the Periodical „Abenteuer Archäologie“ (2004-2007)
- Advisory Board of the Periodical “Antike Welt” (since 2008)
- Advisory Board of the Periodical “Origini” (since 2010)
- Advisory Board of the Periodical “Opuscula” (since 2013)
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19.05.2022