Ineke Sluiter (born 13 November 1959) is a Dutch classicist and professor of Greek Language and Literature at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city o ...

since 1998. Her research focuses on language, literature, and public discourse in classical antiquity. She was a winner of the 2010

Spinoza Prize The Spinoza Prize ( nl, Spinozapremie) is an annual award of 2.5 million euro, to be spent on new research given by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The award is the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. It is named after the philosoph ...

. Sluiter has been president of the

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since June 2020, and previously served as vice president from 2018 to 2020.

Career

Sluiter was born in

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on 13 November 1959. She studied Greek and Latin language and culture at the

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and graduated in 1984. Sluiter obtained her doctorate cum laude from the same university in 1990. Her dissertation was entitled ''Ancient grammar in context. Contributions to the study of ancient linguistic thought''. Between 1984 and 1997 she was a lecturer and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship from the

, she was a Junior Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC, 1994/5) and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, 1996/7). In 1998 she became professor of Greek Language and Literature at

. From 2000 to 2011, she was the academic director of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands. She was one of the founders and continues to be the academic director of the national Anchoring Innovation programme, the Gravitation Grant research agenda of OIKOS that is financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (2017–2027). From 2007 to 2011, Sluiter served as Chair of the Board for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. In 2010 she was one of four winners of the Dutch

and received a 2,5 million euro grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to be spent on new research. Sluiter has been a member of the

(KNAW) since 2012. In 2013 she was elected a member of

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. In 2016 Sluiter won the KNAW Academy Professor Prize, the other winner was

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. In July 2017 she was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences. In 2018, Sluiter was elected as vice-president of the

(2018–2020). In June 2020, she succeeded

Wim van Saarloos Wim van Saarloos is a Dutch physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University (emeritus since July 2021) Van Saarloos has written over 280 papers and has been cited over 12000 times. His research i ...

as president.

Selected works

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References

External links

Profile at Leiden University

Profile at Harvard University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sluiter, Ineke 1959 births Living people Classical scholars of Leiden University Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Dutch classical scholars Women classical scholars Leiden University faculty Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Scholars of Greek language Scientists from Amsterdam Spinoza Prize winners Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam faculty