# Elena Isayev > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elena_Isayev > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elena_Isayev.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Isayev > Source revision: 1342640099 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Elena Isayev |image = Elena Isayev PIC 2008 (cropped).jpg | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | alma_mater = York University | discipline =Ancient history and classics | workplaces = University of Exeter | doctoral_students = }} '''Elena Isayev''' is [professor](/source/professor) of [ancient history](/source/ancient_history) and place in the [Classics](/source/Classics) and Ancient History Department at the [University of Exeter](/source/University_of_Exeter). She is an expert on migration, hospitality and displacement, particularly in ancient Mediterranean contexts. She works with Campus in Camps in [Palestine](/source/Palestine_(region)) and she is a [trustee](/source/trustee) of the [charity](/source/Charitable_organization) Refugee Support Devon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.icrc.org/en/author/elena-isayev|title=Elena Isayev|website=International Committee of the Red Cross|date=April 2018 |access-date=2019-07-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://refugeesupportdevon.org.uk/about-rsg-rsd/|title=About Us|access-date=2019-07-31}} After completed a PhD at [University College London](/source/University_College_London) (UCL) in 2000, Isayev taught at UCL and the [University Birmingham](/source/University_of_Birmingham) before joining Exeter in 2002. == Education == Isayev graduated ''magna cum laude'' from [York University](/source/York_University) 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 [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia) in 1995.{{Cite web|title=Professor Elena Isayev {{!}} Classics and Ancient History {{!}} University of Exeter|url=https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/staff/isayev/|access-date=2021-04-22|website=humanities.exeter.ac.uk|language=en}} Isayev received her PhD in 2000 from [University College London](/source/University_College_London) for a thesis entitled ''Indigenous communities in Lucania: Social Organization and Political Forms, Fourth to First Century BC.''{{Cite web|url=https://ucl-new-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/5qfvbu/UCL_LMS_DS21138011630004761 |title=Indigenous communities in Lucania: Social Organization and Political Forms, Fourth to First Century BC |website=ucl-new-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com |access-date=2019-07-31}} == Career and research == Isayev integrates her research about ancient communities in relation to place and migration and applies it to modern contexts.{{Cite web|url=http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/researchers/elenaisayev/|title=University of Exeter|last1=Robinson|first1=Debbie|website=humanities.exeter.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-31}} She has worked with artists from Israel, Palestine, and Iraq to examine memory and place, particularly in refugee camps.{{Cite web|url=http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/researchers/elenaisayev/|title=University of Exeter|last1=Robinson|first1=Debbie|website=humanities.exeter.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-31}} Her work has been described as highly important and innovative.{{Cite journal|last1=Zuchtriegel|first1=Gabriel|date=July 2018|title=Review of: Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-07-39.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/Manifestos_Ancient_Present|title=Humanities|website=www.mdpi.com|access-date=2019-07-31}} Isayev lectured at the [University of Birmingham](/source/University_of_Birmingham) in 2000-01 and University College London in 2000-02{{Cite web|title=Elena Isayev {{!}} University of Exeter - Academia.edu|url=https://exeter.academia.edu/ElenaIsayev/CurriculumVitae|access-date=2021-04-22|website=exeter.academia.edu}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=9101|title=Department of Classics and Ancient History|website=www.exeter.ac.uk|access-date=2019-08-01}} She co-coordinates the 'Routes: Migration, Mobility, Displacement' Centre at the University of Exeter.{{Cite web|url=http://lifesciences.exeter.ac.uk/routes/|title=ROUTES {{!}} Routes: migration, mobility, displacement. {{!}} University of Exeter|website=lifesciences.exeter.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-31}} She is treasurer for the [Council of University Classical Departments](/source/Council_of_University_Classical_Departments).{{Cite web|url=https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/contact-us/|title=Contact us|website=Council of University Classical Departments|access-date=2019-07-31}} Isayev is currently a senior visiting research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, [University of London](/source/University_of_London).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/people/professor-elena-isayev|title=Professor Elena Isayev|last=UCL|date=2018-05-25|website=Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)|access-date=2019-07-31}} Her project is 'Beyond Resilience: Innovation from Displacement'. She was a Migration and Mobility Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, [University of Tübingen](/source/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen) in July 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/departments/department-of-history/forschung/center-for-advanced-studies-migration-and-mobility-in-late-antiquity-and-the-early-middle-ages/fellows/|title=Fellows{{!}} University of Tübingen|website=uni-tuebingen.de|access-date=2019-07-31}} In 2017 she held a Humanities Research Centre Fellowship at the Australian National University.{{Cite web|url=http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/people/visiting-fellows|title=Visiting Fellows|website=Humanities Research Centre|access-date=2019-07-31}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://news.princeton.edu/uploads/258/file/HistoryNewsletter09.pdf|title=History Newsletter 09|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} == 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](/source/Alison_E._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](/source/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](/source/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== {{reflist}} == External links == {{scholia|author}} * [https://exeter.academia.edu/ElenaIsayev Academia.edu] * [http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/includes/documents/staff_cvs/isayev.pdf Exeter University staff CV] * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=giAzDwAAQBAJ&dq=princeton+Davis+Center+for+Historical+Studies+elena+isayev&pg=PR15 Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy]'' by Elena Isayev {{University of Exeter|state=collapsed}} {{Portal bar|United Kingdom|Biography}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Isayev, Elena}} Category:Living people Category:Academics of the University of Exeter Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Women classical scholars Category:Alumni of University College London --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Elena Isayev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Isayev) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Isayev?action=history)). 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