Angelos Chaniotis

Angelos Chaniotis
Ancient History and Classics
Professor
School of Historical Studies

Angelos Chaniotis is engaged in wide-ranging research in the social, cultural, religious, legal, and economic history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman East. The author of many books and articles and senior editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, he has worked on war, religion, communicative aspects of rituals, and strategies of persuasion in the ancient world. His current research focuses on emotions, memory, and identity. Significant questions and dialogues in the field have grown out of his contributions, which have helped to advance understanding of previously unexplored aspects of the ancient world.

Universität Heidelberg, Ph.D. 1984, Habilitation, 1992; Universität Heidelberg, Assistant Professor 1987–92, Associate Professor 1992–94, Professor and Chair of the Department of Ancient History 1998–2006, Vice Rector for International Relations 2001–06; New York University, Visiting Professor 1993, Associate Professor 1994–97, Professor 1997–98; All Souls College, University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow, 2006–2010, Visiting Professor 2010–; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor 2010–; Academia Europaea, Member; Archaeological Institute of America, Member; Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Foreign Member; German Archaeological Institute, Member; Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corresponding Member; Kernos, Editor 2006–; Mnemosyne, Editor 2007­–; International Hellenic University, Honorary Doctorate 2012; Institute of Mediterranean Studies/Institute of Technology and Research, Crete, Nikos Svoronos History Award 1991; Baden-Württemberg Prize for Pure Research 2001; Greek State Prize for Literature 2010

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