Geoffrey Greatrex#


Geoffrey Greatrex
Membership Number:7061
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES
Elected:2025
Main Country of Residence:CANADA
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ORCID:0000-0002-0099-715X





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2001 Professor (various ranks, full since 2012), Dept. of Classics and
  • Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • 1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 1996 - 1998 Research Fellow, Dept. of Religious and Theological Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff
  • 1995 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • 1994 - 1995 Research Fellow, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.

Fields of Scholarship
  • Romano-Persian relations
  • Reign of Justinian
  • Urban violence in Late Antiquity
  • Classicising historiography

Honours and Awards
  • 2013 Senior Member, Robinson College, Cambridge
  • 2009 Bye Fellowship, Robinson College, Cambridge
  • 2006 Humboldt Fellowship, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, six months
  • SSHRC (= Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada), grants awarded for various projects in 2000, 2004, 2011

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