Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Professor Ilaria Ramelli, FRHistS, earned two MAs (Classics with Specialisation in Early Christianity and Philosophy with Historical Specialisation), a PhD (Classics and Early Christianity, 2000), a further Doctorate (honoris causa), and a postdoctorate (Late Antiquity and Religion), as well as Habilitations to Full Professor / Ordinarius / W3 (History of Philosophy, Classics, Ancient Greek Language and Literature). In the last 25 years she has been, among other appointments, Young Researcher in Late Antiquity, Assistant in Roman History, Professor of Roman Near Eastern History, and Fellow (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 1998–present), as well as Senior Research Fellow in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy (Durham University), Senior Visiting Professor of Greek Thought at Harvard Divinity School and Boston University, Senior Research Fellow - Gastprofessorin in Religion (Erfurt University, Max Weber Centre), Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi (2015/2016, a senior fellowship), Senior Visiting Professor of Church History, and Senior Research Fellow at Princeton University (2017-), Full Professor and K. Britt endowed Chair (Graduate School of Theology, “Angelicum” University), Senior Research Fellow at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Studies, Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Christ Church, besides other senior fellowships and visiting professorships. She is also Professor of Theology, Durham University, hon., Senior Member of the Centre for the Study of Platonism at Cambridge University (UK), the director of international research projects, Humboldt-Forschungspreis Fellow at Erfurt University, Max Weber Centre, elected Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, at the CEU Institute for Advanced Study, Research Professor of Patristics and Church History (KUL, hon.), of Philosophy (Stanford, affiliate), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, of the Humboldt Network of Outstanding Researchers, of the international Forum for Advanced Studies, and of many other academic societies. She received, among many other academic prizes, two Agostino Gemelli Awards (1996; 1997); the Marcello Gigante Classics International Prize sponsored by the President of the Italian Republic and awarded at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (2006); the inclusion in Great Minds of the 21st Century (2011) and in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (2011 & 2014); twelve SBL Mentions for Distinguished Scholarly Service (2010–2021), two Marie Curie Awards from the European Commission (2016, 2020), the Auguste Pavie Prize (Paris, 2017), and a Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation ("Forschungspreis", from 2017), for the research project "Philosophy as Religion in a Universal Empire", and nominations for the Goodwin Award, the Gerda Henkel Prize, the Holberg Prize, the AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, and many endowed chairs at major universities, besides many other nominations, mentions, and scientific awards. She is a member of many directive and scientific boards of scholarly series and journals from the main publishers, e.g. Brill (for the series, Ancient Philosophy and Religion), SBL (WGRW series), Routledge (JECH), Czech Academy of Science (Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina), Vox Patrum, Studia Theologica, etc., and of numerous international scholarly associations, and regularly serves as a peer reviewer for prestigious scientific series and journals, and as a scientific consultant in tenure/hiring evaluations for outstanding Universities, as well as in advanced research funding for international scholarly Foundations and first-rate Universities. She has taught courses and seminars, delivered many invited lectures and seminars, main and public lectures, and held senior research fellowships and senior visiting professorships in numerous (including topmost) Universities and congresses in Europe, North America, and Israel; she has developed courses and study programs, including e-courses, and has never interrupted an intense scholarly activity for over 25 years. She has also been, and is, the director of many international research projects, seminars, panels, and workshops. She has authored numerous books, articles, and reviews in world-leading scholarly journals and series, on ancient philosophy, especially Platonism and Stoicism, patristic theology and philosophy, early Christianity (Greek and Latin, but also in part Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian), the New Testament, the reception of Scripture, imperial and late antiquity, ancient religions, classics, and the reception of classical culture in Christianity. She views patristic philosophy (esp. Platonism) as part and parcel of ancient and late antique philosophy and promotes an integrative, as well as rigorous and in-depth, study of antiquity and late antiquity.