פרופ' מרגלית פינקלברג

Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (Emerita) at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (2005, pbk 2009), Homer (2014; Hebrew) and of over eighty articles on various topics, particularly on Homer and Greek epic tradition. She is a co-editor (with G. G. Stroumsa) of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Brill 2003); and the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; Wiley-Blackwell 2011). She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities for 2012. 

Margalit Finkelberg

https://telaviv.academia.edu/MargalitFinkelberg

 Department of Classics                                  Faculty of Humanities                                    Tel Aviv University                              

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 Margalit Finkelberg  is Professor of Classics (Emerita) at Tel Aviv University. Ph.D. 1986 Classics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; B.A., M.A. 1964-69 Classics, The University of Moscow

Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 2005)

The Recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities for 2012

Administrative and Professional Service (selection)

- Chair of the Department of Classics (2002-2006) 

- Member of the Academic Committee of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University  (2010-2014)  

- Evaluator, Israeli Council for Higher Education, Committee for the Evaluation of the Archaeology Study Programs (2010-2011)

- President of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies (2011-2016) 

- Member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2011-2012) 

- Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2012-2015)

- Member of the Executive Council of Tel Aviv University (2012-2015) 

- Evaluator, European Commission FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF  Programme 

- Evaluator, European Commission FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF Programme

- Evaluator, Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education, External Evaluation Committee for the Department of Philology of the University of Ioannina, Greece (2014)

Referee for 

Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Tel Aviv University Press

American Journal of Philology, Classical Antiquity, Classical Philology, Classical Review, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Israel Exploration Journal, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, Scripta Classica Israelica, Symbolae Osloenses, Transactions and Proceedings of American Philological Association

Fellowships and Academic Awards

 1991                 The Gildersleeve Award                                                                           The Johns Hopkins University Press

                          For the best article published in the American Journal of Philology  in 1990                           

1994                  The Rose Ettinger Award                                                                    The Rose Ettinger Foundation,  Jerusalem  

                         For the translation (into Russian) of  The Jewish War  by Josephus Flavius                                               

1999-2000          Co-director and Fellow,                                                                      Institute for Advanced Studies,  Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

                         International research group on  Mechanisms of  Canon-Making in  Ancient Societies 

2000                  Visiting Fellow                                                                                      All Souls College, Oxford                                                                          

2001                  Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer                                              Memorial University of Newfoundland                                                         

2004                  Gerald F. Else Memorial Lecture in the Humanities                              University of Michigan, Ann Arbor                                                              

2005                  Elected Member                                                                                    Israel Academy of Sciences and  Humanities                                              

2006/7               Member                                                                                                 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton                                                      

2012                  Rothschild Prize in the Humanities                                                       Rothschild Foundation

2014                  International Research Scholar Award                                                  Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia