Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Nikolaos Papazarkadas is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), and member and Vice-President of the NHRF’s Board of Directors. He holds the Nicholas C. Petris Chair of Greek Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, serves as the Director of the Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy at the same university, and is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. He graduated with honors from the Department of History and Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1998) and completed his doctoral dissertation (DPhil) in Ancient History at the University of Oxford (2004). Besides Berkeley, he has taught classics at the University of Dublin (2004–2005) and twice at the University of Oxford (2005–2007, 2019).

He has received fellowships from the Onassis Foundation and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University’s Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is a member of the Greek Epigraphic Society as well as the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, where he served as Vice President (2016–2018) and President (2019–2020).

His academic interests focus on the political institutions, economy, and religion in antiquity, as reflected in his monograph Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Oxford University Press, 2011) as well as on the epigraphy of Attica, Boeotia and the Cyclades. He has edited or co-edited seven volumes on diverse topics, including the history and epigraphy of Boeotia, Athenian hegemony, the post-classical city-state, and the intersection of epigraphy and religious studies. Since 2007, he has been a collaborator, and since 2012, a chief editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, the world’s leading epigraphic publication, overseeing the regions of Athens, the Peloponnese, and Boeotia.