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Kristin Kleber is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Münster, where she has been employed since September 2020. Previously, she served as Full Professor in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2018-2020) and Associate Professor in Languages and Cultures of the Ancient Near East at the same institution (2015-2018).
Her academic background includes:
- PhD from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2008)
Professor Kleber's research focuses on Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC, with special emphasis on Ancient Near Eastern Legal History, the Economic and Social History of Babylonia, and Money, currency and metal in the ancient Near East. She leads project A3-38 "Elite Networks in Hellenistic Babylonia between Continuity and Change" within the Cluster of Excellence on Transcultural Entanglement and Disentanglement.
Her scholarly output demonstrates consistent contributions to Assyriology, economic history, and ancient administration, particularly regarding Babylonian temple economies, taxation systems in the Achaemenid Empire, and Neo-Babylonian textual documentation. Her work bridges linguistic analysis with historical and economic perspectives on ancient Near Eastern societies.
Among her notable achievements:
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2020)
- Prize for Ancient Legal History from University of Innsbruck (2015)
Professor Kleber actively supervises doctoral research, currently mentoring students working on elite networks in Hellenistic Babylonia and cultural borrowings between Eastern Mediterranean cults. She also serves as Chair of the Research Advisory Board of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Münster since October 2022 and previously chaired the Academic Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute of the Near East (NINO) in 2019/20.
