Angelos Chaniotis

Angelos Chaniotis is since 2010 Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has been Professor of Ancient History at New York University (1994-98) and the University of Heidelberg (1998-2006), Vice Rector of the University of Heidelberg (2001-06), and Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford (2006-10). He has taught as visiting professor in Greece, France, Australia, and China. His research, for which he has received funding from the European Research Council, the Packard Humanities Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and other institutions, is dedicated to emotion, historical memory, religion, theatricality in public life, and society in the Hellenistic world and the Roman East. His recent books include War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (2005), Theatricality and Public Life in the Hellenistic Age (2009), and Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (2018). He has served in the Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricerca in Italy and the Research Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He currently serves in the Council of Higher Education in Greece. He is member of the European Academy and corresponding member of several academies. He has been honored inter alia with the Research Award of the State of Baden-Württenberg (2000), the Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation (2014), the Greek State Award for Literature/Essay (2010), and four honorary degrees. In 2013 he was made Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in Greece.