Dr Irene Polinskaya

Biography

After a course of undergraduate studies in St Petersburg, Russia, where my specialization initially was in Russian language and literature, and later in Classical philology, I conducted graduate studies at Stanford University (1993-2000), focusing my research on ancient Greek religion and Greek social history and receiving a PhD in Classics in 2001. Subsequently (2000-2007), I taught ancient Greek and Roman history, as well as Ancient Greek and Latin, at Bowdoin College, USA, and joined King's in 2007.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Ancient Greek religion (methods and approaches )
• Aigina and the Saronic Gulf (history, epigraphy, archaeology)
• Identity formation (ancient to modern Greece)
• Greek epigraphy (Aigina, Attica, Northern Black Sea)
• Digital epigraphy

Current projects

• IOSPE: Ancient Inscriptions from the Northern Black Sea
• Religion and War From Antiquity to Early Modernity
• The Language of Greek Religion
• The Saronic Gulf Regional Project 

I am happy to supervise PhD students on topics in ancient Greek religious, political and social history, primarily of the Archaic and Classical periods.

For more details, please see my full research profile.