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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Ancient History,Classical Philology |
| Keywords | Greek history, Ancient Athens, Greek epigraphy, Greek democracy, Aristotle |
| Honours and awards | 2024: Distinguished Lecturer of the Department of Classics, New York University 2024: R.D. Milns Visiting Professor at the of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland 2024: Visiting Professor at the Turin Humanities Programme 2023: Visiting Professor of Ancient History at the Università degli Studi di Siena 2022: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2022: Visiting Professor of Ancient History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 2019: Elected Fellow of Academia Europaea 2019: Royal Society of Edinburgh Workshop Grant, project: ‘Slavery and Honour in Ancient Greece’ (01-12/2019) - £9,600 (Co-I) 2018: ERC Grant (no. 741084), project ‘Honour in classical Greece' - € 1,893,626 (Co-I) 2017: Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe 2017: Royal Society of Edinburgh Thomas Reid Medal (Early-Career Prize in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) 2017: Visiting Professor of Ancient History at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2016: Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Grant, project ‘Consensus deliberation and decision making in ancient Athens’ - £1,261 (PI) 2015: Philip Leverhulme Prize - £100,000 2014: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (Return Fellowship), project ‘A commentary of Aristotle, Politics, Book 4’ (PI) 2014: Elected Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland 2014: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2014: Runner-Up Scotland International Young Thinker of the Year (Institute of Contemporary Scotland) 2012: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, project ‘Athenian fourth-century legislation and the speech Against Leptines’ (PI) 2011: Richard Bradford McConnell Research Fellowship, British School at Athens, project ‘The twilight of Athenian nomothesia in early-Hellenistic Athens’ - £6000 (PI) 2008: AHRC Doctoral Studentship (fees only), project ‘The Documents in the Attic Orators’ - £10,800 (PI) 2008: Durham Doctoral Fellowship, project ‘The Documents in the Attic Orators’ - £44,700 (PI) |
Current contact address
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| City | Edinburgh |
| Institution | University of Edinburgh |
| Institute | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
| Homepage | https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/mirko-canevaro |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Christian Mann | Philosophische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2012 |
Program(s)
| 2011 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2013 | Mirko Canevaro: Nomothesia in Classical Athens: what sources should we believe?. In: Classical Quarterly, 2013, 1-22 |
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| 2013 | Mirko Canevaro: The Twilight of Nomothesia: Legislation in Early-Hellenistic Athens (322-301). In: Dike, 2013, 59-92 |
| 2013 | Mirko Canevaro: The documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus. Oxford University Press, 2013 |