Thea Sommerschield - Background

Employment

Durham University

Department of Classics and Ancient History

University of Nottingham

Department of Classics and Archaeology
(Leverhulme Trust funding)

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
(European Commission MSCA funding)

Harvard University

Centre for Hellenic Studies
(residency autumn 2021)

British School at Rome

Ralegh Radford Rome Award
(residency spring 2020)

University of Oxford

Craven Fund – Faculty of Classics
(DPhil fieldwork funding)

University of Oxford

Breaking boundaries: A study of socio-cultural identities in Archaic and Classical western Sicily

University of Oxford

The Divination Game: Assessing the 'diviner's problem' through the evidence of the oracle of Dodona

School of Advanced Study of Pavia (IUSS)

The significance of locality in the ritual
distinction between Greek heroes and gods

University of Pavia, Ghislieri College

Speaking the language of swallows:
The barbaros in Aristotle and Hippocrates

2022 Ghislieri Prize for scientific merit (awarded by Ghislieri College)

2021 “G. Nenci” Prize for best doctoral thesis on ancient Sicily (awarded by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

2019 Craven Committee grant for research fieldwork

2017 - 2019 Lorne Thyssen Research Fund bursaries for fieldwork research

2016 - 2019 Wolfson College Fieldwork & Travel Abroad Grants

2017 – 2019 Craven University Fellowship, for fieldwork in Sicily and Rome

2016 – 2019 Oxford - Wolfson full doctoral scholarship

2015 – 2016 Ghislieri - St Hugh’s College full MA scholarship

2012 – 2016 School of Advanced Study (IUSS) Pavia diploma award

2012 – 2015 Ghislieri College BA scholarship