Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum#
| Membership Number: | 5203 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/altorient/Mitarbeiter_innen/Institut/cancik-kirschbaum.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - 2003 Senior Research Associate, Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2001/2002 Directeur d’Études invitée, maitre de conférence, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université la Sorbonne, Paris
- Since 2003 Chair for Languages and History of the Ancient Near East at Freie Universität Berlin
- 2011 - 2019 Member of the Board of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg
Fields of Scholarship
- Languages and history of Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations (Sumer, Akkade, Assyria, Babylonia)
- Edition of cuneiform texts (2nd and 1st millenium BCE)
- Economic, social and political history of Ancient Mesopotamia and adjacent regions
- Perception of time and time-keeping in early societies
- History of cultural techniques and encoding of knowledge
- Tradition, impact, transformation of Ancient Near Eastern civilizations
Honours and Awards
- 2019/2020 Professeur Invitée at the Collège de France, Paris, France
- 2013-2014 Senior Fellow, Martin Buber Society, Hebrew University Jerusalem
- 2013 elected as Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Award for Excellent Supervision der Dahlem Research School
- 2010 elected as a Corresponding member of the German Archeological Institute
- 2003/04 Professeur invitée at the Collège de France, Paris
