Jan Ziolkowski#
Membership Number: | 4152 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2015 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Homepage(s): | http://harvard.academia.edu/JanZiolkowski |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- 2002 Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University
- 1987 - 2002 Professor of Medieval Latin, and of Comparative Literature
- 1984 - 1987 Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
- 1981 - 1984 Assistant Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature
- 2006 - 2007 Chair, Department of the Classics; Acting Chair (Fall Term, 2003-2004)
- 1993 - 2002 Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Acting Chair (1991-1992)
- 1994 - 1997 Chair, Committee on Medieval Studies; Acting Chair
- 1990 - 1995 Chair, Subcommittee on Literature and Arts in the Core Curriculum
- Past Member, Advisory Committee of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures; Committee on the Study of Religion; Department of Comparative Literature (1981-2002); Administrative Committee for Villa I Tatti
Fields of Scholarship
- Medieval Latin Literature
- Comparative Literature
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, honorary member (24 November 2009)
- 2009 Winner of the first Alexander McKay Book Prize of the Vergilian Society for The Virgilian Tradition
- 2008 Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (28 April 2006)
- 2008, 2004, 03, 01: Hoopes Prize for Direction of a Distinguished Thesis (Frederic Nolan Clark, Matthew Ciardiello, Justin Haynes, Jeremy Kurzyniec)
- 2006 Korrespondierendes Mitglied der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2005 - 2006 Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
- 1999 - 2000 Dumbarton Oaks-Harvard Medieval Studies Committee Exchange Scholar
- 1997 - 1998 Lehman Foundation Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti, Florence
- 1996 - 1997 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University
- 1992 - 1993 Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti, Florence
- 1989 (summer):Summer Grant from American Express Fund for Curricular Development in Ethics
- 1988 (summer) & 1987 (spring): John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1986 (fall): American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship
- 1986 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize
- 1983 NEH Summer Stipend
- 1980 - 1981 Dumbarton Oaks & American Academy Fellow in Rome
- 1977 - 1980 Marshall Scholar
- 1977 Phi Beta Kappa
- 1976 Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Scholar
- 1976 Princeton Class of 1870 Old English Prize
- 1975 Princeton University Stinnecke Prize for Classics
- 1974 National Merit Scholar