Mirko Canevaro#
Membership Number: | 5025 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2019 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/classics/staff-in-classics/profile_tab1_academic.php?uun=mcanevar |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-5884-1839 |
Twitter: | @MirkoCanevaro |
Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/mirko.canevaro |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019, 07 - ongoing Professor of Greek History, the University of Edinburgh
- 2017, 08 - 2019, 07 Reader in Greek History, the University of Edinburgh
- 2013, 01 - 2017, 07 Chancellor's Fellow in Classics, the University of Edinburgh
- 2012, 03 - 2012, 12 A. von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Mannheim
- 2011, 10 - 2012, 02 Research Fellow (The Richard Bradford McConnell Scholarship) British School at Athens
- 2008, 10 - 2011, 09 Durham Doctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
Fields of Scholarship
- Greek history
- Greek political institutions
- Greek cultural history
- Attic oratory
- Athenian democracy
- Greek economy
- Ancient political thought
- Greek ethics
- Greek law
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2018 - 2022 ERC Grant (Co-I, Douglas Cairns PI), ‘Honour in classical Greece: esteem, status, identity, and society in ancient Greek literature, life, and thought’
- 2017 Chancellor’s Award – Rising Star (Research), the University of Edinburgh
- 2017 Thomas Reid Medal (Early-Career Prize in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences), by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2017 Elected Member of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2017 Appointed as Visiting Professor of Ancient History at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari for Semester 2 of 2016/17
- 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize, by the Leverhulme Trust
- 2014 Runner-Up Scotland International Young Thinker of the Year (Institute of Contemporary Scotland)
- 2014 Elected Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland