Professor Chris Carey FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Classics, Law
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Law
Summary
I began my career in Cambridge, where I was a research fellow at Jesus College, before moving to St Andrews, where I taught from 1977 to 1991, except for a visiting professorship at University of Minnesota in 1987-8; while there I also taught at Carleton College, Minnesota. I was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway from 1991, before coming to UCL to take up the Chair of Greek in 2003. My research interests include Greek lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, oratory, rhetoric and law.
Current post
University College London Emeritus Professor of Greek
Past appointments
Department of Greek and Latin, University College London Professor of Greek
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies President
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA
Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'
Professor Peter Thonemann FBA
Peter Thonemann has published widely on the history and archaeology of Asia Minor in antiquity and he has a particular interest in epigraphic documents from central and western Anatolia.
Professor James Gordley FBA
The historical development of the civil law and its influence on the common law; the reappraisal of modern private law through the use of comparative and historical methods
