Biography
Daniel Hanigan is a Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Classics, completed as a Gates Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a BA and MPhil in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Sydney. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his academic work and was recently recognised by the Australian Academy of the Humanities as one of ten ‘Rising Stars’ shaping the future of the humanities in Australia.
Research
Daniel works at the intersection of literary criticism, intellectual history, and cultural history. His research is broadly concerned with the history of ancient thought in its literary and cultural contexts. His work to date has focused primarily on geographical literature from the Roman Empire: in particular, how Greek authors writing under Rome negotiated the tension between the epistemological limits of ancient geography and the ascendant political fiction of global imperialism. He is currently developing two new major projects: one on ancient thinking about human origination, with a particular focus on myths of autochthony, and another on environmental and geographical determinism in antiquity.
Publications
His first monograph, The Edges of Empire: Greek Periplography in the Roman World, is under review at Cambridge University Press. He is also co-editor of two forthcoming volumes: Terraqueous Topographies in Postclassical Greek Literature (with Estelle Strazdins) and Ecocritical Classics (with Jason König). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Classical Quarterly, Mnemosyne, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, and the Journal of Roman Studies. Full details of his publications are available on Academia (https://cambridge.academia.edu/DanielHanigan).
Teaching and Supervisions
Daniel has taught across a wide range of subjects at Cambridge and Sydney. He is currently an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculties of Classics and Divinity, where he offers lectures on The World of the Greek Novel, Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire, and Christianity, Hellenism, and Empire. He is also Praeceptor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he supervises all Greek and Latin papers in the Classical Tripos.
