Prof. Dr. Cristina Murer
Professor
Prof. Murer is on a research leave during the summer semester of 2026
Current Projects
Research Interests
Since 04/2023
Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen
10/2022-3/2023
Professor (replacement position) of Classical Archaeology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
04/2022 – 09/2022
Professor (replacement position) of Classical Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin
13/01/2021
Venia Legendi for Classical Archaeology and appointed Privatdozentin at Freie Universität Berlin
Title of habilitation thesis: "Transforming the Past: Tomb Plundering and the Reuse of Funerary Material in Late Antique Italy"
8/2018–12/2022
Principal Investigator of the independently acquired SNSF Ambizione Project "Plundering, Reusing and Transforming the Past"
University of Bern, Department of Ancient History and Reception History of Antiquity
10/2017 – 8/2018
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Classical Archaeology (Chair: Prof. Dr. M. Trümper)
10/2016 –03/2017
Academic Visitor
University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (OCLA)
10/2015 – 10/2017
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dahlem International Network Post-Doc)
Project: “Ex sordentibus locis: Wiederverwendung von Sepulkralplastik in spätantiken Stadträumen Italiens”
2014 – 2017
Postdoctoral Fellow
Excellence Cluster Topoi Berlin, Research Group (C6) “Cityscaping: literarische, architektonische und urbanistische Modellierungen städtischer Räume”
10/2013 – 10/2015
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Classical Archaeology (Chair: Prof. Dr. M. Trümper)
12/04/2013
PhD University of Amsterdam
Dissertation: "Ehrenstatuen für prominente Bürgerinnen: Aufstellungsorte und Funktionswandel statuarischer Ehrungen in kaiserzeit- lichen Stadträumen Italiens und Nordafrika" (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. E. Hemelrijk, Prof. Dr. D. Boschung, Prof. Dr. E. Moormann)
10/2012 – 01/2013
Fellowship
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Medieval Art
09/2010 – 07/2011
Visiting PhD Student
University of Oxford, School of Archaeology
04/2011 – 06/2011
Rome Scholarship
KNIR (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome)
12/2008 – 09/2012
PhD Scholarship
KNIR (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome)
10/10/2008
Lizentiat in Classical Archaeology University of Bern
Thesis: “Beobachtungen zur munizipalen Selbstdar- stellung im Aterno-Tal von der späten Republik bis zur hohen Kaiserzeit”
01/2006 – 07/2006
Erasmus Scholarship
Sapienza University of Rome
09/2002 – 07/2008
Studies in Classical Archaeology
University of Bern
Minors: Ancient History and Near Eastern Archaeology
09/2001 – 07/2002
Studies in French Language
Sorbonne Paris IV, Cours de Langue et Civilisation Française