Paola Buzi#
| Membership Number: | 4481 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/cattedra-egittologia-sapienza |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017, 02, Full Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies, Sapienza Università di Roma
- 2010, 11 - 2017,01, Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies, Sapienza Università di Roma
- 2010,01 - 2010,10, Researcher of Coptic Studies (fixed term), Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen-Universität Hamburg
- 2004 - 2009, Researcher of Egyptology and Coptic Studies (fixed term, 'Assegnista di Ricerca'), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Fields of Scholarship
- Coptic codicology
- Coptic manuscript tradition
- Coptic literature
- Egyptian archaeology
- Ancient Egyptian religion
- Egyptology
- Coptic hagiography
Honours and Awards
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant 2015 for the project “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage” (PAThs)
- 2016 Scientific Member of the Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (CMCL)
- 2016 Member of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente (ISMEO)
- 2016 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg for the long-term project “Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung”
- 2015 Member of the Centre of the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg(http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html
)
- 2015 Member of the Accademia Ambrosiana
- 2014 Member of the scientific board of the Istituto Italiano per la Cultura Egizia (IICE)
- 2012 Member of the Board of the International Association for Coptic Studies (IACS)
- 2002 – 2003 2-years Postdoc scholarship of the “Michele Pellegrino” Foundation, for Christian Studies
