Prof.Dr. Ilaria Ramelli, Dr.h.c., Dr.Habil.mult., FRHistS (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1479-4182), earned two MAs , a PhD (2000), a further Doctorate h.c., a Postdoc, and various Habilitations to Ordinarius.

In the last 25 years she has been, i.a., Young Researcher in Late Antiquity, Assistant in Roman History, Professor of Roman Near Eastern History, Fellow (Catholic U. of the Sacred Heart, 1998–present), Senior Research Fellow in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy (Durham U.), Senior Visiting Professor of Greek Thought at Harvard U., Senior Research Fellow - Gastprofessorin in Religion (Erfurt U., MWK), Senior Visiting Professor of Church History, Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford U. (2016, a senior fellowship), Senior Research Fellow at Princeton U. (2017–), besides other senior fellowships and visiting professorships, Full Professor of Theology and K.Britt endowed Chair (Graduate School of Theology, “Angelicum” U.), the director of international research projects, Senior Research Fellow at Durham U. (for the second time), and Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at the U. of Oxford. She is also Professor of Theology, Durham U., hon.; Member, Platonism Centre, Cambridge U. (https://www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory); Humboldt-Forschungspreis Fellow at Erfurt University, Max Weber Center; Senior Fellow at Bonn U., distinguished Professor of Patristics (KUL, hon.), Fellow of the international Forum for Advanced Studies G.Massa, of the Royal Historical Society, of the Humboldt Network of Outstanding Researchers, and of many international academic societies (e.g., EHS, SNTS, SBL-, AAR-American Academy of Religion, ISNS: http://www.isns.us/directory/europe/ramelliilaria.htm, SEP-IPS, , SCS, formerly APA, FIEC, Enoch Seminar, NAPS, AIEP-IAPS, IAHR, life member Max-Weber-Kolleg Förderverein; Fellow, Sacred Heart University, Toniolo Institute; Forum for Advanced Study; SPES; Society for Late Antiquity; Sophia Institute – honorary, Radical Orthodoxy, Humboldt Network of Outstanding Researchers, etc.).

She received, among many other academic prizes, two Agostino Gemelli Awards (1996; 1997); the Marcello Gigante Classics International Prize sponsored by the President of the Italian Republic (2006); the inclusion in Great Minds of the 21st Century (2011) and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (2011,2014); 11 Mentions for Distinguished Scholarly Service (2010-20), two Marie Curie Awards from the European Commission (2016, 2020), the Auguste Pavie Prize (Paris, 2017), and a Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation (2017-), nominations for the Goodwin Award of Merit (SCS, olim APA), Gerda Henkel Prize, Holberg Prize, AAR Award for Excellence, and many endowed chairs at major universities, besides other nominations, mentions, and scientific awards.

She is a member of many directive and scientific boards of scholarly series and journals from leading academic publishers, e.g. from Brill (series Ancient Philosophy and Religion: https://brill.com/view/serial/APHR), SBL (Writings from the Greco-Roman World: https://www.sbl-site.org/publications/books_wgrw.aspx), Routledge–Taylor and Francis (Journal of Early Christian History); other peer-reviewed academic journals (Vox Patrum; Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina; Studia Theologica, etc.); Scientific Board of the Series, Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics, and of the Series, Theandrites (Franciscan University Press); of academic steering committees, etc.

She regularly serves as a peer reviewer for prestigious scientific series and journals, such as, among the journals, Vigiliae Christianae, American Journal of Philology, Philosophie Antique, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Religion & Theology, Journal of Late Antiquity, The Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Revue des études tardo-antiques, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Modern Theology, Journal of the Bible and its Reception, Journal of Early Christian History, Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, Philologus, Latomus, Exemplaria Classica, AUC Theologica, and many others; among the series, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Byzantinisches Archiv — Series Philosophica, Gregory of Nyssa Colloquia, and other series from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Brill, Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge, Wipf and Stock, Helsinki University Press, Parmenides Publishing, Prometheus Trust Press, etc.

She is asked to be a scientific consultant in tenure/hiring evaluations for outstanding Universities, as well as in advanced research funding for international scholarly Foundations and first-rate Universities in Europe, the UK, and North America (FWO, NWO, Swiss National Science Foundation, Gutenberg Chairs, APA, IPODI Berlin, European Commission, Marie Curie Actions, Czech Academy of Sciences, etc.).

She has taught courses and seminars, held senior research fellowships and senior visiting professorships, and has given very many invited lectures and seminars, and main and public lectures, besides directing graduate programs and research, at numerous Universities, including topmost ones, and conferences in North America, the UK, Europe, and Israel (e.g. at Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Notre Dame, Brown, NYU, Columbia, Emory, Erfurt, Göttingen, Bonn, Zurich, Regensburg, Bern, Bergen, Scuola Normale di Pisa, Ecole Normale de Lyon, Paris IAS, IIAS, Grenoble, Rome Holy Cross, KUL, CEU, King’s College London, London Aga Khan Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Hebrew U. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv U., etc.; at the Origeniana, Gregory of Nyssa Colloquia, RICAN, the New Trinitarian Ontologies conference, at Cambridge U., the Colloquia Adamantiana at Cambridge U., etc.).

She has developed courses and study programs, including e-courses, and has never interrupted an intense scholarly activity for over two decades. She has also been, and is, the director of international advanced seminars, panels, and workshops and is also actively promoting research and further editorial endeavours. She has directed many research projects, seminars, workshops, and publications.

She has authored numerous books, articles, and reviews in leading scholarly journals and series. Her articles and reviews appear in journals such as Journal of Theological Studies, Vigiliae Christianae, Harvard Theological Review, Gnomon, Numen, L'Antiquité Classique, Rheinisches Museum, BMCR, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Journal of Roman Studies, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Athenaeum, Paideia, Philosophie Antique, Apeiron, Journal of the History of Ideas, Classical Review, Classical Journal, Eirene, Exemplaria Classica, Illinois Classical Studies, Aegyptus, Journal of Coptic Studies, Ancient Narrative, Religion and Theology, Journal of Roman Studies, The Studia Philonica Annual, ARAM, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum, Theological Studies, Journal of Religion, Journal of Early Christian History, Jahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie, Philosophy, Journal of Late Antiquity, Novum Testamentum, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, Journal of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Review of Biblical Literature, Aevum, Aevum Antiquum, Latomus, ACME, AION, Aitia: Regards sur la culture hellénistique, Rivista di Storia della Chiesa, Rivista Storica Italiana, Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica, Augustinianum, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Adamantius, Vetera Christianorum, Invigilata Lucernis, Gerión, MHNH, Hispania Antiqua, Sileno, Medioevo Greco, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, Hugoye, Parole de l'Orient, 'Ilu, Gregorianum, Rivista Biblica, Hellenic Open University Theology Journal, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, Reading Religion, Religions, The Marburg Journal of Religion, etc.

Her books and essays are published, for instance, by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Brill, Harvard University Press, Mohr Siebeck, de Gruyter, Peeters, Brepols, Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge, T&T Clark, Wipf & Stock, Catholic University of America Press, SBL Press, InterVarsity, Gorgias, Polebridge, Cambridge Scholars, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Harrassowitz, Winter, Academia, Kohlhammer, Beauchesne, Latomus, Barkhuis, Groningen University Library, Universidad Complutense, Signifer, Paideia, Bompiani, Vita e Pensiero, Augustinianum, Marietti, Officina di Studi Medievali, Cittadella, Mimesis, Dell'Orso, ESD, LEV, etc.

Some of her academic books and articles and their topics are illustrated, for example, in Orcid (above), Stanford University (http://shc.stanford.edu/workshop/meetings/social-justice-and-slavery-and-their-relation-philosophical-asceticism-antiquity), Philpeople (https://philpeople.org/profiles/ilaria-l-e-ramelli), ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ilaria_Ramelli), etc.

Her publications mostly concern ancient philosophy, especially Platonism and Stoicism, patristic theology and philosophy, ancient Christian philosophy, theology, and history, the New Testament, the reception of Scripture, imperial and late antiquity, ancient religions, classics, and the reception of classical culture in Christianity. She views patristic philosophy (esp. Platonism) as part and parcel of ancient and late antique philosophy and promotes an integrative - as well as rigorous - study of antiquity and late antiquity.

Examples from recent monographs:

https://brill.com/view/title/16787. 

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Lily Vuong is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Central Washington University, where she teaches courses on early Judaism and Christianity. She is the author of Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James (Mohr Siebeck, 2013) and co-editor of Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (Journal of Ancient Judaism; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Press, 2014) and Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World (Writings from the Greco-Roman World; SBL Press, 2016).