Peter Pormann#
| Membership Number: | 4226 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Peter.pormann/personaldetails |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - 2016 Founding Director, John Rylands Research Institute
- 2012 - present Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies, University of Manchester
- 2013 Visiting Professor (professeur invité) at the Université Paris Diderot
- 2009 - 2012 Associate Professor, University of Warwick
- 2007 - 2008 Visiting Research Scholar, American University in Cairo
- 2006 - 2009 Wellcome Trust Assistant Professor, University of Warwick
- 2004 - 2006 Frances A. Yates Long-Term Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Graeco-Arabic studies
- History of medicine
- Reception studies
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award
- 2014 Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation
- 2008 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
- The Hellenic Foundation’s 2003 Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom, in the Byzantine/Medieval History category
