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Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineAncient History | Classical Archaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna

Naoíse Mac Sweeney is a classical archaeologist and ancient historian. In 2021 she was a Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna.[1]

Early life and education

Mac Sweeney was born to Chinese and Irish parents in London.[2] She studied for an undergraduate degree in Classics at the University of Cambridge, followed by a Master’s at UCL in Ancient History.[1] She completed a PhD at Cambridge in 2007 with a thesis entitled 'Community Identity in Protohistoric Western Anatolia'.[3]

Career

Following her PhD she spent time in policy reserch working on conflict and international development. From 2008 she held a Junior Research Fellowship in the Faculty of Classics and Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge.[1] In 2011 she joined the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. In 2020 she was appointed as a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna.[1]

Her research focusses on aspects of cultural interaction and identity, with a focus on the ancient Greek world and Anatolia from the Iron Age to the Classical period.[4] Her 2018 book Troy: Myth, City, Icon explores the mythic, the archaeological, and cultural significance of Troy. It was short-listed for the 2019 PROSE awards in the category Archaeology & Ancient History.[5][6]

She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015.[7] In 2017, she held a visiting Research Fellowship at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies.[8] Mac Sweeney co-ordinates the international network 'Claiming the Classical', exploring the use of classical antiquity within contemporary political rhetoric.[9] Since 2019 she is the academic editor of Anatolian Studies, the Journal of the British Institute at Ankara,[1][10] and serves as a judge for the Runciman Award.[11] In 2020 Mac Sweeney received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project MIGMAG – Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World.[12]

Selected publications

Books

  • 2011. Community Identity and Archaeology: Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • 2013. Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2014. (ed.) Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies Dialogues and Discourses. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • 2018. Troy: Myth, City, Icon. London: Bloomsbury.
  • 2018. (co-authored with Dr. Jan Haywood) Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition. London: Bloomsbury.

Journal articles

  • 2004. Social complexity and population: a study in the Early Bronze Age Aegean. Papers of the Institute of Archaeology 15: 53-66.
  • 2009. Beyond ethnicity: the overlooked diversity of group identities. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1: 101-126.
  • 2010. Hittites and Arzawans: a view from western Anatolia. Anatolian Studies 60: 7-24.
  • 2017. Separating fact from fiction in the Ionian migration. Hesperia 38: 379-421.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mac Sweeney, Naoise". klass-archaeologie.univie.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  2. ^ "Naoise Mac Sweeney Archives". Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  3. ^ Mac Sweeney, Naoise (2007). "Community identity and material culture : the case of protohistoric western Anatolia". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ njc10. "Prof Naoíse Mac Sweeney — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "TROY: MYTH, CITY, ICON". classicsforall.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  6. ^ "Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists for 2019 PROSE Awards". AAP. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  7. ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2015 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  8. ^ "Volume 5, Issue 2". Research Bulletin. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  9. ^ Mac Sweeney, Naoise (2019). "Claiming the Classical: the Greco-Roman world in contemporary political discourse" (PDF). Council of University Classical Departments Bulletin. 48.
  10. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  11. ^ "The judges – Runciman Award". runcimanaward.org. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  12. ^ "European Commission EU Research Results".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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