Ineke SluiterFBA (born 13 November 1959) is a Dutch classicist and professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University since 1998. Her research focuses on language, literature, and public discourse in classical antiquity. She was a winner of the 2010 Spinoza Prize.[1] Sluiter has been president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since June 2020, and previously served as vice president from 2018 to 2020.
Career
Sluiter was born in Amsterdam on 13 November 1959.[2][3][4] She studied Greek and Latin language and culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and graduated in 1984. Sluiter obtained her doctorate cum laude from the same university in 1990. Her dissertation was entitled Ancient grammar in context. Contributions to the study of ancient linguistic thought.[5] Between 1984 and 1997 she was a lecturer and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, she was a Junior Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC, 1994/5) and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, 1996/7).[5][6] In 1998 she became professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University.[1] From 2000 to 2011, she was the academic director of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands.[7] She was one of the founders and continues to be the academic director of the national Anchoring Innovation programme, the Gravitation Grant research agenda of OIKOS that is financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (2017–2027).[8][9] From 2007 to 2011, Sluiter served as Chair of the Board for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.[10]
In 2010 she was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2,5 million euro grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to be spent on new research.[11]
Rosen, Ralph M.; Sluiter, Ineke, eds. (2004). Free Speech in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-90-47-40568-9.
Rosen, Ralph M.; Sluiter, Ineke, eds. (2006). City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-90-47-40918-2.
Copeland, Rita; Sluiter, Ineke (2009). Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198183419.
Rosen, Ralph M.; Sluiter, Ineke, eds. (2010). Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-90-04-19233-1.
Rosen, Ralph M.; Sluiter, Ineke, eds. (2012). Aesthetic Value in Classical antiquity. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-90-04-23282-2.
Rosen, Ralph M.; Sluiter, Ineke, eds. (2016). Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity: Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-90-04-31971-4.
^"NWO Spinoza Prize 2010". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.