Career
Kindt graduated from the University of Munich in 2000 with a Master of Arts in Ancient History. She then studied at the University of Cambridge,where she completed a PhD in 2003. [1] In 2005,she was selected as one of the inaugural Katharine Graham fellows at the University of Chicago;the fellowship was created by an endowment from the estate of the publisher of The Washington Post . [2]
In 2012,Kindt published her first book,Rethinking Greek Religion,in which she suggests that the scholarly consensus that the polis is the central focus of ancient Greek religion needs to be re-examined. She argues that other aspects of ancient Greek religion deserve more scholarly attention than they have previously received. [3] [4] [5]
Kindt's second book,Revisiting Delphi,was published in 2016. At the time of its publication she was an associate professor at the University of Sydney. [6] She was also a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.
In 2018,she was selected as a Future Fellow with the Australian Research Council,under their ARC Future Fellowships program. The fellowship runs until 2022. [7] [8] She was also elected into the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018. [9]
In 2019,she became a full professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. As of October 2021,she teaches courses in ancient Greek history and religion. [10]
She is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Ancient History. [11]
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