Directorate
The Institute is led by four Directors drawn from the three academic faculties at Durham, and aided by an administrator and secretary. Two additional staff have been appointed in 2012 specifically to support the Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (Cofund) scheme.
The Directorate is also supported by a distinguished Advisory Council.
Professor Veronica Strang Executive Director
Veronica Strang is an environmental anthropologist. She has previously held positions at the universities of Oxford, Wales, Goldsmiths and Auckland, and came to Durham in May 2012. Her research focuses on human- environmental relations, cultural landscapes and, in particular, societies’ engagements with water. In 2000 she was awarded a Royal Anthropological Institute Fellowship and in 2007 a UNESCO International Water Prize. Her publications include The Meaning of Water (2004); Gardening the World: agency, identity and the ownership of water (2009) and Ownership and Appropriation (2010). A short cultural history, Water Over Time,is forthcoming with Reaktion Press.
Professor Stuart Elden Director
Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Geography. His interests include the historical and contemporary aspects of territory, the relation of social theory to geography, and the history of ideas. He is the editor of the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. His 2009 book T
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and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty won the Association of American Geographers Globe Book A ward and the Royal Geographical Society Murchison A ward. The Birth of Territory is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in 2013.
Professor Barbara Graziosi Director
Barbara Graziosi has been Professor of Classics at Durham since 2010. She was educated in Trieste (Italy), Oxford and Cambridge, was appointed Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, in 1999, and held a summer fellowship at the Center of Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, in 2005. She is currently writing a history of the Olympian gods, and directing a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on biographies and portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets.
Professor Martin Ward Director
Martin Ward is currently the Head of the Department of Physics, and also holds the Temple Chevallier Chair of Astronomy. He has previously held positions at Cambridge, Oxford and Leicester, before coming to Durham in 2004. He is an observational astrophysicist whose research interests include black holes and quasars. He was a consultant for the European Space Agency and is involved in the next generation Hubble Telescope project. He is interested in science public outreach, and has been a guest on Patrick Moore’s “The Sky at Night,” and Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time.”
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