People

Prof. Phillip Horky (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, esp. Presocratics, Plato, the Early Academy, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy)

Co-Director

E-mail: phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link | Twitter: @neo_pythagorean

Phillip Horky is Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University. His specialisms include the history of Platonism, Pythagoreanism, and the Presocratics. He has written a monograph, Plato and Pythagoreanism (Oxford, 2013), as well as edited a volume Cosmos in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2019). He has also written numerous articles on topics and figures ranging from theories of justice among the Socratics to the reception of Platonic philosophy in the writings of Antonio Gramsci. He is co-editor of the book series Cambridge Texts and Studies in Platonism, published by Cambridge University Press. 

Dr Michael Huxtable

Co-Director

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Dr Mike Huxtable studied Philosophy and English at the University of York and has obtained Masters degrees in both subjects. He completed a doctorate in 2008 in Durham on the phenomenology of colour and its perception in medieval literature. Mike's research interests include medieval philosophy, theology and the history of ideas; the semiology of medieval art and culture (in particular heraldry), and the influence of visuality on literary creativity.

Staff and Research Fellows

Dr Elizabeth Biggs (Research Interests: Priory Library Project)

E-mail: elizabeth.c.biggs@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Giulia Bonasio (Research Interests: Ancient philosophy (esp. Aristotle's ethics, early Greek philosophy, and Plato), Greek lyric poetry)

E-mail: giulia.bonasio@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Prof. Nancy Cartwright (Research Interests: Aristotelian metaphysics and its role in modern science )

E-mail: nancy.cartwright@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Prof. Andrea Capra (Research Interests: Classical philosophy (especially Plato) and poetry)

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Prof. Serafina Cuomo (Research Interests: ancient mathematics and technology)

E-mail: serafina.cuomo@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Jeremy Dunham (Research Interests: 17th-19th-century philosophy)

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Dr Nathan Gilbert (Research Interests: Cicero, Stoicism, Epicureanism)

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Dr Patrick Gray (Research Interests: Shakespeare; Montaigne; Renaissance Literature; Classical Reception; Intellectual History; History of Emotions)

E-mail: patrick.gray@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Prof. Edith Hall FBA (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Literature; Aristotle; the Sophists; Reception of Greek Literature in Philosophy)

E-mail: Twitter: @edithmayhall

Dr Jane Heath (Research Interests: Clement of Alexandria; New Testament; theology of the image / embodiment)

E-mail: j.m.f.heath@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE (Research Interests: Reception of Aristotle)

Professor of Classics Education and Public Policy, Research Fellow, Aristotle Beyond the Academy in Britain and Ireland since the Restoration

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Prof. Stephen Mumford (Research Interests: The Eleatics, Heraclitus, Plato’s Protagoras and Sophist, Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics)

E-mail: Website: Link | Twitter: @SDMumford

Prof. Christopher Rowe (Emeritus)

E-mail: c.j.rowe@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Prof. Martin Ferguson Smith (Emeritus) (Research Interests: Epicureanism, esp. Diogenes of Oinoanda and Lucretius)

E-mail: m.f.smith@dur.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Sara L. Uckelman

E-mail: s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link | Twitter: @SaraLUckelman

Dr Sara Uckelman is an Associate Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. She joined the department in 2014, having previously held research posts in Heidelberg, Tilburg, and Amsterdam.

Her primary research is in the realm of formal modeling and interactive logic. She is interested in bringing togther tools and techniques from modern logic and artificial intelligence to help explore and understand practices of reasoning and argumentation in historical contexts. Her personal research is primarily focused on developments in medieval Western Europe, particularly in medieval theories of obligationes.

She is also interested in abstract dialogue and argumentation systems, the influence of theology on the development of medieval logic, computational social choice and medieval economic and trade history.

Her research interests include Mathematical Logic; Medieval Modal, Temporal and Tense Logic; Onomastics; Philosophical Logic; Philosophy of Fiction and Philosophy of Language.

She is the Editor-in-Chief and Principal Investigator of the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Logic, Language, and Information.

Dr Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Research Interests: Medieval theology, especially theology of the Trinity and soteriology; late-medieval spirituality of the Low Countries (especially Ruusbroec))

Assistant Professor of Medieval Thought

E-mail: rik.van-nieuwenhove@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Ms J T Wolfenden (Research Interests: Hellenistic Philosophy, esp. literary philosophy incl. Lucretius, Philodemus, Seneca, and Lucan)

E-mail: j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Prof. Ioannis Ziogas (Research Interests: Roman law and Latin literature; legal humanities; Latin poetry; Greek epic)

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Postgraduates

Justin Allison (Research Interests: Epicurean and early Christian communities )

E-mail: justin.r.allison@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Marta Antola (Research Interests: Plato, Socrates, Greek Philosophy and Literature)

E-mail: marta.antola@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Giulia Bernardini (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Literature, esp. philosophical uses of Comedy in Plato)

E-mail: giulia.bernardini@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Matilde Berti (Research Interests: Plato, Metaphysics (Ancient and Contemporary))

Marco Collatuzzo (Research Interests: Aristotle: Writing Styles, Fragments, Esoteric vs. Exoteric Writings)

Visiting PhD Student, Universities of Pisa and Florence

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Fani Goutsiou (Research Interests: Seneca, Stoicism, Psychology)

E-mail: fani.goutsiou@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Nosheena Jabeen (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Cosmology, esp. Political Philosophy (incl. Aristotle and Cicero))

E-mail: nosheena.jabeen@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Maria Cristina Mennuti (Research Interests: Middle Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Cosmology, Philip of Opus)

Valerio Ricciardi (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, esp. Political Philosophy incl. Plato, Aristotle and Cicero)

E-mail: valerio.ricciardi@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Giovanni Trovato (Research Interests: Pythagoreanism, Platonism and the Peripatetic tradition)

Visiting PhD Student, University of Pisa

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Annalisa Wilson (Research Interests: Stoic adiaphora and Paul)

E-mail: annalisa.p.wilson@durham.ac.uk

Visitors and Recent Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Myrthe Bartels (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Interpretation (incl. Hermeneutics), Philosophical approaches to legislation, Ancient Ethics & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Music, Reception Studies)

COFUND JRF 2018-20; now Research Fellow, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, University of Pisa

E-mail: myrthe.l.bartels@gmail.com | Website: Link

Dr Edoardo Benati (Research Interests: Plato, Early Academy)

Visiting Student (2018-2019); Currently at Scuola Normale Superiore

E-mail: edoardo.benati@durham.ac.uk

Dr Graziana Ciola (Research Interests: Logic and Science in the 14th Century)

ZKS/Priory Library Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2019-20; now Associate Professor of Philosophy, Radboud University

E-mail: Website: Link

Dr Matthew Duncombe (Research Interests: Plato, Stoicism, Metaphysics)

British Academy ECF 2014-16; now Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

E-mail: matthew.duncombe@nottingham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Claire Hall (Research Interests: Divination, Prophecy, Ancient Philosophy of Time, Astrology, Ancient Science)

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2022-25

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Dr Benjamin Harriman (Research Interests: Presocratics, Stoicism)

Lecturer in Classics 2016-17; now Leverhulme ECF, Classics, the University of Edinburgh

E-mail: Benjamin.Harriman@ed.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Monica Hellström (Research Interests: Late Antique Philosophy, History, Culture)

Leverhulme ECRF 2016-20; now Lecturer of Ancient History, Oxford University

E-mail: monica.hellstrom@classics.ox.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Anthony Hooper (Research Interests: Plato, Presocratics, 18-19th Century German Philosophy)

COFUND JRF 2016-19; currently Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Woolongong

E-mail: hoopera@uow.edu.au | Website: Link

Dr Mara Nicosia (Research Interests: Syriac and Arabic rhetoric, Semitic languages, the transmission of Aristotelian philosophy, Late Antique contacts between Greek and Aramaic)

British Academy Newton International Fellow, 'The Syriac Rhetorical Tradition between Greco-Roman Paideia and Arabic Aristotelianism'

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Dr Federico Petrucci (Research Interests: Plato, Middle Platonism)

COFUND JRF 2016-18; currently Professore Associato in Philosophy, the University of Torino

E-mail: federicomaria.petrucci@unito.it | Website: Link

Dr Liam Preston (Research Interests: Latin Literature (specifically Lucan, Seneca, Lucretius, and Petronius); Epicurean Philosophy (especially Epicurean ethical thought); Early Presocratic Thought (especially Xenophanes and Empedocles); Translation Theory)

Teaching Fellow

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Dr Elsa Simonetti (Research Interests: Plutarch, Divination)

Newton International Fellow 2017-19; now Research Fellow, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, KU Leuven

E-mail: elsagiovanna.simonetti@kuleuven.be

Dr Anders Dahl Sørensen (Research Interests: Plato, Political Theory)

COFUND JRF 2018-19; now Carlsberg Foundation Fellow, University of Copenhagen

E-mail: adahl@hum.ku.dk | Website: Link

Dr Peter Swallow (Research Interests: Aristotle, ancient science, gender and sexuality, reception studies)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leverhulme-funded Research Project 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy'

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Dr Alessandro Vatri (Research Interests: Stylistics and Linguistics in Aristotle)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UKRI Frontiers Research Project Aristoteles Pezographos

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Dr Rosie Wyles (Research Interests: Greek literature, Aristotle, Vocabulary of emotions, Reception)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UKRI Frontiers Research Project 'Aristoteles Pezographos'

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PhD Alumni/ae

Dr Richard Beniston (Research Interests: Stoicism, Seneca, Natural Science)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2017

Dr Nicolò Benzi (Research Interests: Plato, Sophists, Presocratics, Greek Poetry)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2016; now Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham

E-mail: Nicolo.Benzi@nottingham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Carlo Cacciatori (Research Interests: Plato, Aristotle, Moral Epistemology)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2022

E-mail: carlo.cacciatori@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Giulia De Cesaris (Research Interests: Aristotle, the Old Academy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Neopythagoreanism, Iamblichus)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2020; now Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy, KU Leuven

E-mail: giulia.decesaris@kuleuven.be | Website: Link

Dr Atsushi Hayase (Research Interests: Plato, Dialectic)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2010; now Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Kyoto University

E-mail: hayase.atsushi.7n@kyoto-u.ac.jp | Website: Link

Dr Yoon Cheol Lee (Research Interests: Plato, Logic, Sophists)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2012; now Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chungnam National University

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Dr Esther Meijer (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Poetry (esp. Lucretius, Seneca, and Flavian poetry), Cosmology, and Ancient Political Philosophy)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2021; now Associate Lecturer in Latin, Department of Classics, University of St Andrews

E-mail: esther.meijer@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Sebastiano Molinelli (Research Interests: Plato, Sophists, Logic)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2018

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Dr Cesare Sinatti (Research Interests: Stoicism, Cosmology)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2022

E-mail: cesare.sinatti@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Mark Wildish (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Kierkegaard, Later Wittgenstein)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2015; now Assistant Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Hong Kong University

E-mail: mark.wildish@dunelm.org.uk | Website: Link

Dr Logan Williams (Research Interests: Christian Ethics, Aesthetics, Priesthood in Early Judaism)

PhD in Theology, Durham University, 2020; now Lecturer of Theology, Durham University

E-mail: logan.a.williams@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link

Dr Ugo Zilioli (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy)

PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2002; Marie Curie Research Fellow 2015-17; now Leverhulme Researcher, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford

E-mail: ugo_zilioli@yahoo.co.uk | Website: Link

Related Organisations

The following groups are also supportred by members of the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy:

Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Durham Centre for Classical Reception

Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy

Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network