Ineke Sluiter#
| Membership Number: | 3475 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucas/organisation/members/sluiteri.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - 1 Jan. 2011 Member and from Sept. 2009 Chair of the Board for the Humanities, Netherlands Organization of Research (NWO) (Gebiedsbestuur Geesteswetenschappen) [this is the national funding organization for academic research]
- 2000 - 2011 Academic Director of the Dutch National Graduate School in Classics (OIKOS)
- 2000 - 2004 Chair of Classics Dept, Univ. of Leiden
- 1998 - now Professor and Chair of Greek Literature and Linguistics, Univ. of Leiden (from Nov. 2006 ‘Hoogleraar 1’ [highest ranking professorship])
- 1998 Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania (visa problems prevented a longer association)
- 1984 - 1997 Teaching and research positions in the Dept. of Classics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1996 - 1997 Member of the School for Historical Studies. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
- 1994 - 1996 Senior Research Fellow for the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (KNAW-“Akademie-onderzoeker”)
- 1994 - 1995 Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies Washington DC (Harvard University)
- 1985 - 1998 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (from part-time instructor to Assistant Professor)
Fields of Scholarship
- Ancient ideas on language
- Public debates and the use of value discourse
- Connection between classics and the modern world
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol
- 2012 Elected Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2012 (Spring) Fellowship at the NIAS
- 2012 CLARIN-NL grant for the digitization of the new Greek-Dutch dictionary (€ 70.000,-)
- 2010 Spinoza prize (highest research award in the Netherlands, 2.5 M€)
- 2010 Nellie Wallace lecturer, Oxford University
- 2005 Selection for ‘Keur der Wetenschap’ (see: http://www.darenet.nl/nl/page/language.view/keur.page
)
- 2003 Research award for programmatic research (funding for research team) € 500,000 (NWO, Dutch Research Foundation)
- 2001 Elected Member of the Royal Holland Society of Arts and Sciences (KHMW)
- 2001 Teaching Award Univ. of Leiden, by Leiden Student Council (LSR)
- 1998 O-1 visa for “Aliens of Extraordinary Ability”
- 1996 - 1997 Member of the School for Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
- 1996 - 1997 Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant
- 1994 - 1996 Senior Research Fellowship Royal Dutch Academy
- 1994 - 1995 Junior Fellowship Center for Hellenic Studies Washington DC
- 1993 Visiting Fellowship Clare Hall, Cambridge (UK)
- 1993 Prince Bernhard Foundation Prize 1993 for publications on ancient linguistics
- 1991 - 1994 Research Fellowship Royal Dutch Academy
- 1990 Study Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (for PhD thesis)
