
Dr Sara L. Uckelman
Co-Director
E-mail: s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link | Twitter: @SaraLUckelman
Dr Sara Uckelman is an Associate Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. She joined the department in 2014, having previously held research posts in Heidelberg, Tilburg, and Amsterdam.
Her primary research is in the realm of formal modeling and interactive logic. She is interested in bringing togther tools and techniques from modern logic and artificial intelligence to help explore and understand practices of reasoning and argumentation in historical contexts. Her personal research is primarily focused on developments in medieval Western Europe, particularly in medieval theories of obligationes.
She is also interested in abstract dialogue and argumentation systems, the influence of theology on the development of medieval logic, computational social choice and medieval economic and trade history.
Her research interests include Mathematical Logic; Medieval Modal, Temporal and Tense Logic; Onomastics; Philosophical Logic; Philosophy of Fiction and Philosophy of Language.
She is the Editor-in-Chief and Principal Investigator of the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Logic, Language, and Information.

Prof. Phillip Horky (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, esp. Presocratics, Plato, the Early Academy, Aristotle)
Co-Director
E-mail: phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link | Twitter: @neo_pythagorean
Phillip Horky is Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University. His specialisms include the history of Platonism, Pythagoreanism, and the Presocratics. He has written a monograph, Plato and Pythagoreanism (Oxford, 2013), as well as edited a volume Cosmos in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2019). He has also written numerous articles on topics and figures ranging from theories of justice among the Socratics to the reception of Platonic philosophy in the writings of Antonio Gramsci. He is co-editor of the book series Cambridge Texts and Studies in Platonism, published by Cambridge University Press.
Staff and Research Fellows
Prof. Lewis Ayres
E-mail: l.o.ayres@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Thomas Ball
E-mail: t.j.ball@durham.ac.uk
Dr Krastu Banev
E-mail: krastu.banev@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. John Barclay
E-mail: john.barclay@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Elizabeth Biggs (Research Interests: Priory Library Project)
E-mail: elizabeth.c.biggs@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Giulia Bonasio (Research Interests: Ancient philosophy (esp. Aristotle's ethics, early Greek philosophy, and Plato), Greek lyric poetry)
E-mail: giulia.bonasio@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Nancy Cartwright (Research Interests: Aristotelian metaphysics and its role in modern science )
E-mail: nancy.cartwright@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Andrea Capra (Research Interests: Classical philosophy (especially Plato) and poetry)
E-mail: Website: Link
Dr Annalisa Cipollone
E-mail: annalisa.cipollone@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Serafina Cuomo (Research Interests: ancient mathematics and technology)
E-mail: serafina.cuomo@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Jeremy Dunham (Research Interests: 17th-19th-century philosophy)
E-mail: Website: Link
PD Dr Thorsten Fögen
E-mail: thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes
E-mail: h.g.foxhallforbes@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Giles Gasper
E-mail: g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Nathan Gilbert (Research Interests: Cicero, Stoicism, Epicureanism)
E-mail: Website: Link
Dr Patrick Gray (Research Interests: Shakespeare; Montaigne; Renaissance Literature; Classical Reception; Intellectual History; History of Emotions)
E-mail: patrick.gray@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Edith Hall (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Literature; Aristotle; the Sophists; Reception of Greek Literature in Philosophy)
E-mail: Twitter: @edithmayhall
Dr Jane Heath (Research Interests: Clement of Alexandria; New Testament; theology of the image / embodiment)
E-mail: j.m.f.heath@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Christopher Insole
E-mail: christopher.insole@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Jane Macnaughton
E-mail: jane.macnaughton@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Anna Marmodoro
E-mail: anna.marmodoro@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Stephen Mumford (Research Interests: The Eleatics, Heraclitus, Plato’s Protagoras and Sophist, Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics)
E-mail: Website: Link | Twitter: @SDMumford
Prof. Daniel Newman
E-mail: daniel.newman@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Alberto Rigolio
E-mail: alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link | Twitter: @AlbertoRigolio
Prof. Christopher Rowe (Emeritus)
E-mail: c.j.rowe@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Corinne Saunders
E-mail: c.j.saunders@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Prof. Martin Ferguson Smith (Emeritus) (Research Interests: Epicureanism, esp. Diogenes of Oinoanda and Lucretius)
E-mail: m.f.smith@dur.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Edmund Thomas
E-mail: e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Research Interests: Medieval theology, especially theology of the Trinity and soteriology; late-medieval spirituality of the Low Countries (especially Ruusbroec))
Assistant Professor of Medieval Thought
E-mail: rik.van-nieuwenhove@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Ms J T Wolfenden (Research Interests: Hellenistic Philosophy, esp. literary philosophy incl. Lucretius, Philodemus, Seneca, and Lucan)
E-mail: j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Postgraduates
Justin Allison (Research Interests: Epicurean and early Christian communities )
E-mail: justin.r.allison@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Marta Antola (Research Interests: Plato, Socrates, Greek Philosophy and Literature)
E-mail: marta.antola@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Giulia Bernardini (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Literature, esp. philosophical uses of Comedy in Plato)
E-mail: giulia.bernardini@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Matilde Berti (Research Interests: Plato, Metaphysics (Ancient and Contemporary))
Fani Goutsiou (Research Interests: Seneca, Stoicism, Psychology)
E-mail: fani.goutsiou@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Luke Irwin
E-mail: luke.irwin@durham.ac.uk
Nosheena Jabeen (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Cosmology, esp. Political Philosophy (incl. Aristotle and Cicero))
E-mail: nosheena.jabeen@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Maria Cristina Mennuti (Research Interests: Middle Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Cosmology, Philip of Opus)
Valerio Ricciardi (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, esp. Political Philosophy incl. Plato, Aristotle and Cicero)
E-mail: valerio.ricciardi@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Cesare Sinatti (Research Interests: Stoicism, Cosmology)
E-mail: cesare.sinatti@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Annalisa Wilson (Research Interests: Stoic adiaphora and Paul)
E-mail: annalisa.p.wilson@durham.ac.uk
Visitors and Recent Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Myrthe Bartels (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Interpretation (incl. Hermeneutics), Philosophical approaches to legislation, Ancient Ethics & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Music, Reception Studies)
COFUND JRF 2018-20; now Research Fellow, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, University of Pisa
E-mail: myrthe.l.bartels@gmail.com | Website: Link
Dr Edoardo Benati (Research Interests: Plato, Early Academy)
Visiting Student (2018-2019); Currently at Scuola Normale Superiore
E-mail: edoardo.benati@durham.ac.uk
Dr Graziana Ciola (Research Interests: Logic and Science in the 14th Century)
ZKS/Priory Library Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2019-20; now Excellence Fellow in the History of Philosophy, Radboud University
E-mail: Website: Link
Dr Matthew Duncombe (Research Interests: Plato, Stoicism, Metaphysics)
British Academy ECF 2014-16; now Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
E-mail: matthew.duncombe@nottingham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Claire Hall (Research Interests: Divination, Prophecy, Ancient Philosophy of Time, Astrology, Ancient Science)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2022-25
E-mail: Website: Link
Dr Benjamin Harriman (Research Interests: Presocratics, Stoicism)
Lecturer in Classics 2016-17; now Leverhulme ECF, Classics, the University of Edinburgh
E-mail: Benjamin.Harriman@ed.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Monica Hellström (Research Interests: Late Antique Philosophy, History, Culture)
Leverhulme ECRF 2016-20; now Lecturer of Ancient History, Oxford University
E-mail: monica.hellstrom@classics.ox.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Anthony Hooper (Research Interests: Plato, Presocratics, 18-19th Century German Philosophy)
COFUND JRF 2016-19; currently Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Woolongong
E-mail: hoopera@uow.edu.au | Website: Link
Dr Federico Petrucci (Research Interests: Plato, Middle Platonism)
COFUND JRF 2016-18; currently Professore Associato in Philosophy, the University of Torino
E-mail: federicomaria.petrucci@unito.it | Website: Link
Dr Elsa Simonetti (Research Interests: Plutarch, Divination)
Newton International Fellow 2017-19; now Research Fellow, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, KU Leuven
E-mail: elsagiovanna.simonetti@kuleuven.be
Dr Anders Dahl Sørensen (Research Interests: Plato, Political Theory)
COFUND JRF 2018-19; now Carlsberg Foundation Fellow, University of Copenhagen
E-mail: adahl@hum.ku.dk | Website: Link
PhD Alumni/ae
Dr Richard Beniston (Research Interests: Stoicism, Seneca, Natural Science)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2017
Dr Nicolò Benzi (Research Interests: Plato, Sophists, Presocratics, Greek Poetry)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2016; now Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham
E-mail: Nicolo.Benzi@nottingham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Carlo Cacciatori (Research Interests: Plato, Aristotle, Moral Epistemology)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2022
E-mail: carlo.cacciatori@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Giulia De Cesaris (Research Interests: Aristotle, the Old Academy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Neopythagoreanism, Iamblichus)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2020; now Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy, KU Leuven
E-mail: giulia.decesaris@kuleuven.be | Website: Link
Dr Atsushi Hayase (Research Interests: Plato, Dialectic)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2010; now Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Kyoto University
E-mail: hayase.atsushi.7n@kyoto-u.ac.jp | Website: Link
Dr Yoon Cheol Lee (Research Interests: Plato, Logic, Sophists)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2012; now Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chungnam National University
E-mail: Website: Link
Dr Esther Meijer (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy and Poetry (esp. Lucretius, Seneca, and Flavian poetry), Cosmology, and Ancient Political Philosophy)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2021; now Associate Lecturer in Latin, Department of Classics, University of St Andrews
E-mail: esther.meijer@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Sebastiano Molinelli (Research Interests: Plato, Sophists, Logic)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2018
E-mail: Website: Link
Dr Mark Wildish (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Kierkegaard, Later Wittgenstein)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2015; now Assistant Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Hong Kong University
E-mail: mark.wildish@dunelm.org.uk | Website: Link
Dr Logan Williams (Research Interests: Christian Ethics, Aesthetics, Priesthood in Early Judaism)
PhD in Theology, Durham University, 2020; now Lecturer of Theology, Durham University
E-mail: logan.a.williams@durham.ac.uk | Website: Link
Dr Ugo Zilioli (Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy)
PhD in Classics, Durham University, 2002; Marie Curie Research Fellow 2015-17; now Leverhulme Researcher, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
E-mail: ugo_zilioli@yahoo.co.uk | Website: Link
Related Organisations
The following groups are also supportred by members of the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy:
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Durham Centre for Classical Reception