# Veronica della Dora

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{{short description|Italian cultural geographer and professor}}
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| alma_mater = [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles)
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| doctoral_advisor = [Denis Cosgrove](/source/Denis_Cosgrove)
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| discipline = Geography
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| workplaces = {{unbulleted list |[Royal Holloway, London](/source/Royal_Holloway%2C_University_of_London)|[University of Bristol](/source/University_of_Bristol)|[Getty Research Institute](/source/Getty_Research_Institute)}}
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'''Veronica della Dora''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 1976) is an Italian cultural geographer. She is Professor of Human Geography at [Royal Holloway, University of London](/source/Royal_Holloway%2C_University_of_London), where she is Director of the Social, Cultural & Historical Geography Group<ref name="rh-profile">{{cite web |title=Professor Veronica Della Dora |url=https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/veronica-della-dora(f71cf662-e123-4000-a72b-e186eb1037c2).html |website=Geography: Researchers |publisher=Royal Holloway, University of London |access-date=2 September 2018}}</ref> and Co-Director of the Centre for GeoHumanities (with [Harriet Hawkins](/source/Harriet_Hawkins)).<ref name="geohumanitites">{{cite web |title=People: Directors |url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/research/research-environment/research-institutes-and-centres/centre-for-the-geohumanities/people/ |website=Centre for the GeoHumanities |publisher=Royal Holloway University of London |access-date=2 May 2020 |language=en-gb}}</ref>

Della Dora comes from [Venice](/source/Venice) and grew up living on the [Lido](/source/Lido_di_Venezia).<ref name=runciman /> She gained a PhD from [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles) (UCLA) in 2005, under the supervision of [Denis Cosgrove](/source/Denis_Cosgrove). After leaving [UCLA](/source/UCLA), she joined the [Getty Research Institute](/source/Getty_Research_Institute), Los Angeles as a post-doctoral fellow, before moving to the [University of Bristol](/source/University_of_Bristol) in 2007<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Geography at the University of Bristol |url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/geography/migrated/documents/bristolgeoghistory2009.pdf |website=University of Bristol |access-date=13 April 2019 |archive-date=26 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426150853/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/geography/migrated/documents/bristolgeoghistory2009.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> as a lecturer. She joined [Royal Holloway, University of London](/source/Royal_Holloway%2C_University_of_London) as Professor in September 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof David Gilbert announces appointment of Prof Veronica della Dora as new Professor in Human Geography from Sept 2013 |url=https://twitter.com/rhulgeography/status/327379321754886144 |website=Twitter |access-date=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Call for papers, February 2014|url=https://csopnu.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/call-for-papers-moving-mountains-studies-in-place-society-and-cultural-representation/ |website=Cultural significance of place|date=5 February 2014 |access-date=13 April 2019}}</ref>

Her first monograph ''Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Mountain from Homer to World War II'' was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize in 2012. ''Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium'' was nominated for the 2017 [Runciman Award](/source/Runciman_Award).<ref name="runciman">{{cite web |title=An interview with Veronica della Dora, author of Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium |url=https://runcimanaward.wixsite.com/authorinterviews/single-post/2017/06/07/An-interview-with-Veronica-della-Dora-author-of-Landscape-Nature-and-the-Sacred-in-Byzantium |publisher=Runciman Awards |access-date=2 September 2018 |date=2017}}</ref> In 2018, della Dora was elected a [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy).<ref name="ba-profile">{{cite web |title=Professor Veronica Della Dora |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-veronica-della-dora |publisher=[British Academy](/source/British_Academy) |access-date=2 September 2018}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*''High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice'' (2008, [Cosgrove, D](/source/Denis_Cosgrove) and della Dora, V.; I.B. Tauris: {{ISBN|9781845116170}})
*''Visual and Historical Geographies: Essays in Honour of [Denis E. Cosgrove](/source/Denis_Cosgrove)'' (2010, edited by della Dora, V; Digby, S; Basdas, B.; Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, 2010: {{ISBN|9781870074247}})
*''Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II'' (2011, University of Virginia Press: {{ISBN|978-0-8139-3259-0}})
*''Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred'' (2014,  Maddrell, Avril; della Dora, Veronica; Scafi, Alessandro; Walton, Heather; Routledge: {{ISBN|978-0-415-84398-0}})
*''Mountain: Nature and Culture'' (2016,  Reaktion Books: {{ISBN|9781780236476}})
*''Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium'' (2016, Cambridge University Press: {{ISBN|9781107139091 }})
*''The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor'' (2021, University of Chicago Press: {{ISBN|9780226741321 }})

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/veronica-della-dora(f71cf662-e123-4000-a72b-e186eb1037c2).html}}

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