Julia Kindt
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Julia Kindt {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} (born 1975) is a German academic and writer who specialises in ancient Greek history and religion. She is a professor at the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Career
Kindt graduated from the University of Munich in 2000 with a Master of Arts in Ancient History. She then studied at the University of Cambridge, where she completed a PhD in 2003.{{Cite web|title=Julia Kindt|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/julia-kindt-223239|access-date=2021-10-12|website=The Conversation|date=27 January 2016 |language=en}} In 2005, she was selected as one of the inaugural Katharine Graham fellows at the University of Chicago; the fellowship was created by an endowment from the estate of the publisher of The Washington Post.{{Cite web|title=Washington Post publisher's gift supports liberal arts education|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/050210.graham.shtml|access-date=2021-10-19|website=www-news.uchicago.edu}}
In 2012, Kindt published her first book, Rethinking Greek Religion, in which she suggests that the scholarly consensus that the polis is the central focus of ancient Greek religion needs to be re-examined. She argues that other aspects of ancient Greek religion deserve more scholarly attention than they have previously received.{{Cite journal|last=Martzavou|first=Paraskevi|date=2014-11-01|title=Julia Kindt, Rethinking Greek Religion|url=https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/2228|journal=Kernos. Revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique|language=en|issue=27|pages=445–448|doi=10.4000/kernos.2228|issn=0776-3824|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Edmonds|first=Radcliffe G.|date=2014-08-01|title=Julia Kindt, Rethinking Greek Religion|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/676516|journal=History of Religions|volume=54|issue=1|pages=103–106|doi=10.1086/676516|s2cid=163596158 |issn=0018-2710|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|title=Review of: Rethinking Greek Religion|url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014.09.47/|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}
Kindt's second book, Revisiting Delphi, was published in 2016. At the time of its publication she was an associate professor at the University of Sydney.{{Cite book|last1=Eidinow|first1=Esther|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLSYCgAAQBAJ&dq=university+of+Munich+Julia+Kindt&pg=PR18|title=The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion|last2=Kindt|first2=Julia|date=2015-10-01|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-105807-3|language=en}} She was also a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.
In 2018, she was selected as a Future Fellow with the Australian Research Council, under their ARC Future Fellowships program. The fellowship runs until 2022.{{Cite web|title=Grant - Grants Data Portal|url=https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT170100239|access-date=2021-10-19|website=dataportal.arc.gov.au}}{{Cite web|title=ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT170100239|url=http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT170100239|access-date=2021-10-19|website=Research Data Australia|language=en}} She was also elected into the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.{{Cite web|title=Sydney scholars elected into prestigious Humanities academy|url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/news-and-events/news/2018/11/20/sydney-scholars-elected-into-prestigious-humanities-academy.html|access-date=2021-10-19|website=The University of Sydney|language=en-AU}}
In 2019, she became a full professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. As of October 2021, she teaches courses in ancient Greek history and religion.{{Cite web|last=Kindt|first=Julia|date=2019-09-25|title='Nature's ancient history' by Julia Kindt|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/475-commentary/5893-nature-s-ancient-history-by-julia-kindt|access-date=2021-10-19|website=Australian Book Review|language=en-gb}}
She is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Ancient History.{{cite web | url=https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jah/html#editorial | title=Journal of Ancient History }}
Works
=Authored=
- Kindt, J. 2012. Rethinking Greek Religion. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9780521110921}}
- Kindt, J. 2016. Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9781316585047}}
- Kindt, J. 2024. The Trojan Horse and Other Stories. Ten Ancient Creatures that Make Us Human. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9781009411332}}
=Edited=
- Eidinow, E. and J. Kindt, eds. 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780199642038}}
- E. Eidinow, J. Kindt and R. Osborne, eds. 2016. Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9781316597811}}
- Kindt, J. (ed.) 2021. Animals in Ancient Greek Religion. Routledge. {{ISBN|9781138388888}}
- Beck, H. and Kindt, J., eds. 2023. The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9781009301862}}
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Category:21st-century Australian historians
Category:Australian women historians
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