Elena Isayev is

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and place in the

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and Ancient History Department at the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

. She is an expert on migration, hospitality and displacement, particularly in ancient Mediterranean contexts. She works with Campus in Camps in

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and she is a

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of the

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Refugee Support Devon. After completed a PhD at

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(UCL) in 2000, Isayev taught at UCL and the University Birmingham before joining Exeter in 2002.

Education

Isayev graduated ''magna cum laude'' from

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in Canada in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and classical studies. She then went on to complete a master's degree in classical archaeology at the

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in 1995. Isayev received her PhD in 2000 from

for a thesis entitled ''Indigenous communities in Lucania: Social Organization and Political Forms, Fourth to First Century BC.''

Career and research

Isayev integrates her research about ancient communities in relation to place and migration and applies it to modern contexts. She has worked with artists from Israel, Palestine, and Iraq to examine memory and place, particularly in refugee camps. Her work has been described as highly important and innovative. In 2018 she guest edited 'Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present', a Special Issue of ''Humanities'', a peer reviewed, international, open access journal. Isayev lectured at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

in 2000-01 and University College London in 2000-02 before joining the University of Exeter as a senior lecturer in 2002. She was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and professor in 2017. Her inaugural lecture, entitled "The Sky is Hidden: on the Opening of Language and Borders", was delivered on 7 March 2019. She co-coordinates the 'Routes: Migration, Mobility, Displacement' Centre at the University of Exeter. She is treasurer for the

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. Isayev is currently a senior visiting research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies,

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. Her project is 'Beyond Resilience: Innovation from Displacement'. She was a Migration and Mobility Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies,

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in July 2018. In 2017 she held a Humanities Research Centre Fellowship at the Australian National University. In 2009-10 she held a Davis Fellowship at the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. Her project was Paradoxes of Place: Pausing Motion in Ancient Italy and Now.

Bibliography

* 'Making Ancient Mobility Visible', ''Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages'', edited by Justin Yoo, Andrea Zerbini, Caroline Barron. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019 * ''Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 * 'Between Hospitality and Asylum: A Historical Perspective on Displaced Agency', ''International Review of the Red Cross'', vol. 99 (904) pp. 75–98 * 'Citizens among outsiders in Plautus's Roman Cosmopolis: a Moment of Change', ''Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World: Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to AD 212'', edited by Lucia Cecchet and Anna Busetto. Leiden: Brill, 2017 * 'Italy before the Romans', ''Blackwell Companion to Roman Italy'', edited by Alison Cooley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 1–32. * 'Polybius's Global Moment and Human Mobility throughout Ancient Italy', ''Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture'', edited by Martin Pitts and Miguel John Versluys. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015 * 'Polybius's Global Moment and Human Mobility through Ancient Italy', ''Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 * 'Italian perspectives from Hirpinia in the period of Gracchan Land Reforms and the Social War', ''Creating Ethnicities and Identities in the Roman World'', edited by Andrew Gardner, Edward Herring and Kathryn Lomas. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2013 * ''Inside Ancient Lucania: Dialogues in History and Archaeology''. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007 * ''Ancient Italy: Regions Without Boundaries,'' edited by Guy Bradley, Elena Isayev and Corinna Riva. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2007 * 'Unruly Youth? The Myth of Generation Conflict in Late Republican Rome', ''Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte'', 2007, vol. 56 (1), pp. 1–13

References

External links

Academia.edu

Exeter University staff CV
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Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
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