People

Coordinators of the Project at the Partner Universities

Giuseppina Viscardi

Giuseppina Viscardi

Coordinator - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

Associate Professor in History of religions at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures, since 2018. Her main topics of research are Ancient Polytheisms, ancient Greek narratives, religious landscape, discursive rhetoric, policies of classical acculturation, collective and cultural memory, religious knowledge, religious pluralism. She  recently worked on the Italian translation of Collected Essays on Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, by Armin W. Geertz. For further information see the personal website: https://unina.academia.edu/GiuseppinaPaolaViscardi

Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Coordinator - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Vice Dean for Postgraduate and Research at the Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Classical Philology. She is also a member of the investigation team on Textos religiosos de la Antigüedad: Mundo clásico y Oriente próximo / Religious Texts of Antiquity: Classical World and the Middle East (ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES - FILOLOGÍA Y FILOSOFÍA ), leaded by Alberto Bernabé Pajares.  For further information see the personal website   https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=1726736

Mika Kajava

Mika Kajava

Coordinator - Helsingin Yliopisto

Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Helsinki since 2005. Previously, he was Professor of Ancient Languages and Culture at the University of Turku, and Director of the Finnish Institute in Rome. He has published extensively in the field of ancient epigraphy, religion and culture. Over the recent decade or so, Prof. Kajava has contributed especially to the study of various aspects related to Greek sacred dedications. For further information see the personal website: https://helsinki.academia.edu/MikaKajava

 

Lech Trzcionkowski

Lech Trzcionkowski

Coordinator - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie

Lech Trzchonkowski is Faculty member at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion. His main topics of research are: Orphism; mysteries (Greek religion); sacrifice (Anthropology of religion); Greek epigraphy; material culture of religion. He is currently working on a monograph dedicated to the reception of Orphic Poems in the reading communities of Late Antiquity: Biblioteka religijna późnoantycznych filozofów / Religious library of late antiquity philosophers. For further information see the personal website https://lechtrzcionkowski.academia.edu/.