Peter Garnsey
Australian historian of the Graeco-Roman world (born 1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter David Arthur Garnsey, FBA, FAHA (born 22 October 1938) is a retired classicist and academic. Born in Australia, where he studied classics at the University of Sydney as a member of St Paul’s College, he has spent most of his career at Cambridge. He was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1974 to 2006, and a professor of the history of classical antiquity at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2006.[1][2] His area of research concerns the history of political theory, intellectual history, social and economic history, food, famine and nutrition, and physical anthropology.
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Peter Garnsey | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sydney University of Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Ancient history |
Sub-discipline | Social history Economic history Food and drink |
Institutions | Jesus College, Cambridge University of Cambridge |
Doctoral students | Richard Miles |
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