Dr Maria Fragoulaki

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BA, MA, PhD, FHEA

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My research interests include: Thucydides; Herodotus; Homer; the interaction between history and literature in study of the ancient world; the political and social history of ancient Greece, esp. of the archaic and classical periods; Greek colonization and ethnicity; ancient Greek mythology and religion; comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to classics from the perspectives of: modern anthropological theories of kinship; political science; war studies; sociology of emotions; modern literary criticism.

My monograph Kinship in Thucydides, OUP 2013 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kinship-in-thucydides-9780199697779?cc=gb&lang=en&) studies the concept of kinship between communities (syngeneia) in Thucydides and ancient Greek politics. It applies new kinship discourses and modern anthropological work on kinship relations beyond biology and descent (relatedness) to ancient constructions of intercommunal kinship, in order to describe and explain the maleable and dynamic nature of kinship claims in ancient Greek politics. As in all periods and societies, kinship is a powerful (albeit at times invisible to cultural outsiders) mechanism, which fuels rhetoric and collective emotions, and mobilises diplomacy and action in war and peace.

Reviews of Kinship in Thucydides, 2013, OUP

P. Liddel, Omnibus 68, September 2014, 69; S. Forsdyke, Histos 8, 23 November 2014 (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/RR17ForsdykeonFragoulaki.pdf); C. Scardino, BMCR 16 December 2014; P. Low, Mnemosyne, 2015 68/3, 511-14 http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/1568525x-12341909  (DOI: 10.1163/1568525X-12341909); R. J. Littman, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21, 2015, 211-243; M. Tamiolaki, Classical Review, January 2015, 65/1, 42-4 (DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X14002686); M. S. Trifirò, Anabases 21, April 2015, 274-5 (URL: http://anabases.revues.org/5349); M. Taylor, sehepunkte Rezensionsjournal fur die Geschichtswissenschaften 15 (2015) No. 4 (URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2015/04/24471.html); S. Roy, Classical Journal Online 5.09.2015 https://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2015.09.05%20Roy%20on%20Fragoulaki.pdf; D. Konstan, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 135, 2015, 192-3 (DOI: 10.1017/S0075426915000233); K. Vlassopoulos, Greece & Rome 63.1, April 2016, 134 (DOI: 10.1017/S0017383515000303, Published online: 29 March 2016); P. Debnar, Gnomon 89, 2017, 67-9.

Current Research projects

Thucydides and Homer

My current research involves a monograph on the relationship between Thucydides and Homer, two archetypal war authors, through literary, historical and socio-cultural questions. It is the first large-scale study on the topic.

Collective memory in ancient Greece

I am co-editing a volume entitled Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography, and Epigraphy, which studies collective memory in ancient Greece through different media and genres (forthcoming, Histos Supplement, 2018) 

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Undergraduate

• Myth and History in Ancient Greek Culture – 20 credits (HS3375)
• Drama in Context: Ancient Greek Theatre, Politics and Society - 20 credits (HS3381)
• Tyrants, Kings and Democrats: The Rise of Classical Greece - 20 credits (HS3374) (http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/course/ancient-history-ba)
• Researching the Ancient World: Final Year Dissertation – 40 credits (HS4335)
• Independent Second Year Study – 20 credits (HS4334)
• Pots, Poems and Pictures: Using Evidence for Ancient History – 20 credits (HS4336)
• Greek Historical Texts – 10 credits (HS3345/6) (Spring Semester: Herodotus)

Postgraduate

• Themes and Approaches in Ancient History – 20 credits (HST002)
• MA Special Topic; Two Greek Historians: Herodotus and Thucydides
• MA Religious Studies: Myth, Narrative and Theory

Research supervision

I would be happy to supervise postgraduate research topics on: Thucydides; Herodotus; the interaction of Greek historians with literature; Greek ethnicity and intercommunal kinship in ancient Greece; cultural politics of ancient Greece; the political and social history of archaic and classical Greece; modern theories and the classics.

Teaching profile

October 2004 to date: I have designed and taught BA and MA courses in ancient Greek history (archaic and classical periods, as a core course, in full-size groups, organised in lectures and seminars); ancient Greek literature (Thucydides, Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Greek drama), paying due attention to the historical and cultural context and modern approaches to ancient texts; I have taught ancient Greek and Latin language at all levels.

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Career overview

2014-: Lecturer in Ancient Greek History, Cardiff University, School of History, Archaeology and Religion

2013-2014: Associate Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London

2011-2012: University of London, Contributing lecturer to the Intercollegiate MA Course 'Sources and Methods in Ancient History'

2010-2011: Teaching Fellow, University College London, Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

2009-2010, 2005-2008: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, University College London

2007-2010: Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

2004-2006: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, King's College London

1992-2002: Studies of drama; employment as actress, translator and copy-editor in classics and performing arts (Greece)

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July 2007: A.G. Leventis Foundation scholarship, for the academic year 2007-8 (£4,000)

January 2007: The 2006 George Grote Prize for Ancient History (University of London) (£3,000)

2004-7: Funding of my PhD research by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (Ίδρυμα Κρατικὠν Υποτροφιών, I.K.Y.), following national competition (fees and subsistence, £36,000)

2015-16: Funding for the 2016 Distinguished University Lecture, Cardiff University, Prof. Irad Malkin, 'The Small Greek World' (Research Committee of SHARE (School of History, Archaeology and Religion), Cardiff University: £234)

Erasmus + International Exchange teaching scheme

14-21 May 2017: Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, GAUGN (£1,255)

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

• Cymrawd yr Academi Addysg Uwch
• Aelod o Gyngor Cynghori Institue Astudiaethau Clasurol, Ysgol Astudiaethau Uwch, Prifysgol Llundain
• Aelod o Gyngor Adrannau Clasurol y Brifysgol, y DU (CUCD)
• Ysgrifennydd Cangen Cymdeithas Glasurol Caerdydd a'r Cylch (Cymru), UK
• Aelod o'r Cymdeithasau ar gyfer Hyrwyddo Astudiaethau Helenaidd a Rhufeinig, y DU
• Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Glasurol, y Deyrnas Unedig
• Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Clasurol (Cymdeithas Ffilolegol America gynt)

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Academic Service and Esteem

Referee for Academic Journals and Publishers in Classics:

Historia (2012-); Greece and Rome (2011-); Wiley Blackwell (2012-); Philologus (2014-); Oxford University Press (2015-); Journal of Hellenic Studies (2017-)

2013- Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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2016- Chair of the Research Ethics Committee and Research Integrity Lead, SHARE

2015- Ancient History Library Representative

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Rwy'n croesawu goruchwyliaeth ymgeiswyr PhD addas sy'n dymuno gweithio ar hanes a llenyddiaeth Groeg hynafol y cyfnodau hynafol a chlasurol, yn enwedig Thucydides a'i chyd-destun cymdeithasol-wleidyddol; Theori a gwleidyddiaeth y berthynas hon; Thucydides a Homer; myth; cof cyfunol.

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