Michael C. Scott | Academic Studies

I am currently a Research Associate at Darwin College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK, and was formerly the Moses and Mary Research Fellow in Ancient History at Darwin College. My principal research interests lie in the intersection of history and archaeology. Previous topics of study include the interrelationships between art and text, the changing perception and experience of sacred space, the political uses of architecture, the impact and use of epigraphic documents as both text and monument and the reception of the ancient world in the modern. My PhD, now published with Cambridge University Press, focused on the spatial development of monumental dedications at Delphi and Olympia. My current book project, also with Cambridge University Press, examines the complex relationships between space and society across the Greek and Roman worlds and the usefulness of spatial analysis as a tool for both archaeologists and historians. My longer-term research project is on the archaeology of ritual practice and experience.

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Risk with Cambridge University Press

RISK Book Jacket The book of the Darwin Lecture Series 2010, on the theme of Risk, which I co-edited with Layla Skinns and Tony Cox, is now available in print.

Delphi and Olympia

Delphi and Olympia monograph Delphi and Olympia: the spatial politics of panhellenism in the archaic and classical periods Cambridge University Press 2010. For more information, click here

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LATEST NEWS:

Encyclopedias

I have recently been involved in three encyclopedia projects, which will be published 2012-14:
Encyclopedia of Ancient History edited by Roger Bagnall et al. 2012
Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology ed. C. Smith 2013
Cambridge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions ed. E. Orlin 2014.

Darwin Lecture Series 2012 Ð Life

I have been asked to give one of the prestigious Darwin Lectures as part of the 2012 Darwin Lecture series. The theme for the whole series will be Life, and I will be tackling 'Life in the Ancient World'. The lecture will take place at 5.30pm on Friday 10th February 2012 at the Lady Mitchell Hall auditorium, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. All welcome. For more information on my lecture, click here

Key Themes in Ancient History

I have been contracted by Cambridge University Press to write a new volume for their "Key Themes in Ancient History" series. The book will be entitled Space and Society in the Greek and Roman worlds. It will examine, through the application of different methods of spatial analysis to different types of spaces across the ancient world, the usefulness of a spatial approach to the practice and understanding of ancient history. Click here for more details.

Wiley-Blackwell Companion volumes

I am writing a chapter contribution for the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell Companion volumes:

Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman antiquity eds. P. Christesen and D. Kyle. Chapter entitled: "The Social Life of Greek Athletic Facilities"

Greek Architecture ed. M. Miles. Chapter entitled: "Prestige in Sanctuaries"

Ancient Greek Democracy - then and now

In December 2010, I was invited to give a two week course of lectures on "Ancient Greek Democracy then and now" to the Politics and International Relations department at Fundacao Getulio Vargas University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click here for more info. In 2011, the top students from the course will be visiting Greece on a university-sponsored tour.

Darwin College, Cambridge

British School at Athens

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

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