Jörg Rüpke - Curriculum Vitae#

Date of birth: 1962 in Herford/Westfalia (Germany)

Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt (2008-2013, renewable)
Honorary Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Aarhus (2011-2016, renewable)
Professor of Comparative Religions, University of Erfurt (W3, since April 1999, on leave since Sept. 2008)

Ongoing Professional Activities
2009- Comitato Scientifico della Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena
2008- Director of the DFG Research Team 1013: Religious Individualization in Historical Perspective, Erfurt
2008- Director Graduate School “Religion in Modernisation Processes”, Erfurt
2007-13 Teaching faculty DFG-Research Training Group “Gottesbilder”, Göttingen
2005-11 Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Swiss NCCR “Affective Sciences”, Genève

Previous Professional Activities
2010-12 Member of the Steering Committee of the research cluster “Sanctuaries” of the German Archaeological Institute
2008, 1-6 Interim president of the University of Erfurt
2004-7 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy
2003-4 Visiting Fellow Max Weber Centre
2002-12 Teaching Faculty Dottorato internazionale Le Culture delle province romane, Siena, Trento and Erfurt
2000-8 Coordinator of the Priority Program 1080 Roman Imperial and Provincial Religion: Processes of Globalisation and Localisation
1995-9 Professor (C3) of Classical Studies, Potsdam
1994-5 Replacement Faculty, Chair of Latin Philology (Prof. R. Herzog), Konstanz
1992-4 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Philological Institute, Tübingen
1990-5 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the DFG Research Project Social History of Roman Religion (H. Cancik)

Degrees and Qualifications

• 1995 Augmentation of the Venia legendi for Latin Philology, Tübingen
  
• 1994 Habilitation in Religious Studies, Venia legendi, Department of Cultural Studies, Tübingen
  
• 1989 PhD in Comparative Religion summa cum laude, Tübingen
  
• 1987 MA in Religious Studies and Latin (with distinction), Tübingen
  
• 1987 Staatsexamen in Latin and Catholic Theology (1,0 and 1,5)
  
• 1981-86 Undergraduate studies at Bonn, Lancaster and Tübingen in Religious Studies, Latin, and Catholic Theology
  
• Preliminary Certificate in Philosophy and Education