Helene Whittaker#
| Membership Number: | 5476 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xwhihe |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6310-7839 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1 January 2013 - present Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Gothenburg
- 1 October - 1 December 2009 Peter M. Warren Visiting Professor in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Bristol
- 2004 - 2012 Full Professor in Classics at the University of Tromsø
- 1994 - 2004 Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tromsø
- 1989 - 1993 Fellowship at the University of Bergen
Fields of Scholarship
- Aegean Bronze Age, in particular Mycenaean Religion
- Greek and Roman languages and culture
- Homer
- Roman history
- Roman Greece
- Neoplatonism
- Early Christianity
- From Bronze to Iron
Honours and Awards
- Member of The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
- December 2014 - present Member of the Board for the Swedish Institute at Athens
- Platonsällskapet (Scandinavian Plato Society)
- Since 2002 Member of the European Association of Archaeology
- 1995 - 2000 Member of the board for the Norwegian Institute at Athens
