Katherine Clarke (historian)

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Katherine Clarke

FBA
Born (1970-10-13) 13 October 1970 (age 53)
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Academic background
Alma mater St John's College, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
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Katherine Jane Clarke FBA (born 13 October 1970) is a British ancient historian and academic, specialising in Greek historiography and geography. She is Professor in Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

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Early life and education

Clarke was born on 13 October 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. [1] She was educated at Leeds Girls' High School, an all-girls independent school. [1] She studied literae humaniores at St John's College, Oxford, graduating with a double first Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1993. [1] She then undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in ancient history at St John's College, Oxford and Christ Church, Oxford, which she completed in 1996. [1] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Between geography and history: Strabo's Roman world". [2]

Academic career

Clarke was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford from 1997 to 1998. [1] In 1998, she was elected a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and appointed a tutor in ancient history. [1] She was also a lecturer in ancient history within the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, from 1998. [1] She served as vice-principal of St Hilda's College from 2013 to 2016. She was Chair of the Sub-faculty of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology within the Faculty of Classics from 2015 to 2017. [3] In 2021, she was appointed Professor of Greek and Roman History. [1]

Clarke teaches the history of the late Roman Republic period and early Roman Empire. [4] Her research covers the Hellenistic period and the Greeks interaction with Romans, and historians such as Strabo, Tacitus, and Polybius. [4] [5]

Clarke's first book, Between Geography and history (1999) discussed how the presentation of geography in Polybius, Posidonius, and Strabo responded to the rise of Roman power. In the book, she argues that geography and geographic ideas were more important and complex in ancient historiography than hitherto realised. W. J. Tatum and R. Alston characterised it as "essential reading" for work on Posidonius, Strabo, and Hellenistic geography. [6] [7] [8]

Clarke's second book, Making Time for the Past (2008) explores how ancient Greek city-states conceived of time and the past, as a central part of their communal identities. The book was a groundbreaking work for the study of local history in ancient Greece. [9] [10]

A third book, Shaping the Geography of Empire (2018) deals with the representation of geography and the physical world in Herodotus' Histories.

Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. [11]

Selected publications

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Clarke, Prof. Katherine Jane, (born 13 Oct. 1970), Professor of Greek and Roman History, University of Oxford, since 2021; Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, St Hilda's College, Oxford, since 1998". Who's Who 2024 . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Clarke, Katherine Jane (1997). Between geography and history: Strabo's Roman world (DPhil thesis). Oxford University. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Shaping the Geography of Empire: Man and Nature in Herodotus' Histories: Author Information. Oxford University Press. 21 June 2018. ISBN   978-0-19-882043-7 . Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Katherine J Clarke". St Hilda's College Oxford. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Professor Katherine Clarke". Faculty of Classics. University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Pothecary, Sarah (2000). "Katherine Clarke, Between geography and history : Hellenistic constructions of the Roman world". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2000.09.06.
  7. ↑ Tatum, W. Jeffrey (2002). "Katherine Clarke. Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World. (Oxford Classical Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 407. $85.00". The American Historical Review. 107 (4): 1272–1273. doi:10.1086/ahr/107.4.1272.
  8. ↑ Alston, Richard (2004). "K. Clarke, Between Geography and History". Ancient West and East. 4 (1): 188–190.
  9. ↑ McInerney, Jeremy (2013). "Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis . By Katherine Clarke. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (paper). Pp. [xii] + 408. Originally published 2008". Classical Philology. 108 (2): 169–173. doi:10.1086/671422.
  10. ↑ Pownall, Frances (2010). "Time in Local History - (K.) Clarke Making Time for the Past. Local History and the Polis. Pp. xiv + 408. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Cased, £70. ISBN: 978-0-19-929108-3". The Classical Review. 60 (1): 168–170. doi:10.1017/S0009840X09990886. S2CID   162014379.
  11. ↑ "Professor Katherine Clarke FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
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