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

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since 1998. Her research focuses on language, literature, and public discourse in

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. She was a winner of the 2010 Spinoza Prize. 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 Spinoza Prize 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 Hans Clevers. In July 2017 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, 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 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 Academic staff of Leiden University 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 Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam