Rate My Professor Uwe Walter

Professor Uwe Walter serves as Professor of General History with a particular emphasis on Ancient History within the History Department at Universität Bielefeld's Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, a position he has occupied since October 2004, initially as C4 and upgraded to W3 in 2009. Born on October 23, 1962, in Rotenburg an der Fulda, he pursued studies in History, Latin, and Greek at the University of Göttingen from 1983 to 1989, with a semester at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He obtained his teaching certification for gymnasiums in History and Latin in 1989. Following his military service and studies, Walter completed his doctoral dissertation (Dr. phil.) in 1992 at Göttingen, examining citizenship and belonging in the Archaic Greek polis, published as "An der Polis teilhaben" in 1993. He then served as a trainee teacher and passed his second state examination in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he taught in North Rhine-Westphalia schools, becoming Studienrat in 1997, and was seconded to the University of Cologne's Ancient History department until 2001. During 2001-2003, he held a research fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, culminating in his habilitation in 2003 at Cologne on "Memoria und res publica: Zur Geschichtskultur der römischen Republik," published in 2004.

Walter's scholarly work centers on ancient political culture, historiography, and the Roman Republic, extending to Archaic Greece. Notable monographs include "Politische Ordnung in der römischen Republik" (2017) and "Antike über den Tag hinaus. Bücher - Köpfe - Themen" (2017). He co-edited critical source collections such as "Die Frühen Römischen Historiker" in two volumes (2001, 2004) with Hans Beck and "Fragmente römischer Memoiren" (2013) with Peter Scholz. Other edited works encompass "Formen römischer Geschichtsschreibung von den Anfängen bis Livius" (2003) and "Gesetzgebung und politische Kultur in der römischen Republik" (2014). In addition to his research, Walter has been actively involved in university administration, serving as Dean of his faculty from 2009 to 2012 and again in 2017-2018, Prodekan thereafter initially, member of the Senate from 2017 to 2019, Principal Investigator in the Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology, and subproject leader in the SFB 584 "Das Politische als Kommunikationsraum in der Geschichte." He teaches modules in Ancient History and pre-modern periods.