Douglas Cairns: born 10. 1. 61, Glasgow, Scotland Professor of Classics, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh 1979-83 MA (Hons, First Class) in Classics, University of Glasgow (Winner, Glasgow University Open Bursary Competition, 1979; Logan Prize for Most Distinguished MA Graduate, 1983) 1983-7 PhD, University of Glasgow Thesis: ‘The Concept of Aidôs in Ancient Greek Literature from Homer to 404 BC’ Supervisors: Professor D. M. MacDowell, Professor A. F. Garvie October-December 1986: Temporary Lecturer in Greek, University of St Andrews May 1988-August 1992: Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer in Classics, University of Otago September 1992-September 1999: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Leeds October 1999-August 2004: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow September 2004-present: Professor of Classics (established Chair), University of Edinburgh September-December 2008: Visiting Professor of Classics, Kyoto University, Japan January-April 2012: George R. Langford Family Eminent Scholar Chair, Department of Classics, Florida State University June 2017: Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Pisa October 2017: Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Tokyo July–August 2018: Visiting Professor of Classics, Fu Jen University, Taiwan October 2021: Visiting Professor of Greek, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa May 2022: Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Cagliari Fellowships/awards May 1987-May 1988: Postdoctoral Fellow (Leverhulme Trust), Georg-August Universität, Göttingen April-September 1993 (July-September 1994, 1995): Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Seminar für klassische Philologie, Göttingen February-May 2004: Research Leave Award, Arts and Humanities Research Board (£15,000) October 2008-September 2011: Major Research Fellowship, the Leverhulme Trust (£152,000) May-July 2011, August 2016: Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, HU Berlin, TU Dresden (Wiederaufnahme) September 2012-May 2013: Senior Research Fellow, European Research Council Project, The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm, University of Oxford (£55,000) September 2014-February 2018: AHRC Research Grant, A History of Distributed Cognition (Cairns PI: with colleagues in Edinburgh, Durham, Oxford, and Stirling) (£570,000) April 2016-March 2018: Leverhulme International Research Network Grant, Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium (Cairns PI: with colleagues in Cyprus, Edinburgh, KCL, Odense, and Vienna) (£99,000) January 2018-December 2023: ERC Advanced Grant (74108), Honour in Classical Greece (Cairns PI, 70% FTE; €1.9 million) June 2018-May 2024: Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (€250,000) June 2018-May 2020: BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, In the mind, in the body and in the world: emotions in ancient Greece and China (£9,890; complemented by ACLS grant to project partner, Professor C. Virag, Toronto, $15,000). December 2018–February 2019: Mercator Fellow, GRK 1876 ‘Frühe Konzepte von Mensch und Natur: Universalität, Spezifität, Tradierung’, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz October 2019–January 2020: Co-investigator (with M. Anderson and M. Wheeler, Stirling, M. Sprevak, Edinburgh, and Talbot Rice Gallery), The Art of Distributed Cognition (for TRG exhibition, The Extended Mind), AHRC (£74,000) May–June 2024 Senior Fellowship, TU Dresden October 2019–January 2020 Co-investigator (with M. Anderson and M. Wheeler, Stirling, M. Sprevak, Edinburgh, and Talbot Rice Gallery), The Art of Distributed Cognition (for TRG exhibition, The Extended Mind), AHRC (£74,000) May–June 2024, 2025: Senior Fellowship, TU Dresden September 2024–August 2029: Co-investigator (30% FTE, with M. Canevaro and D. Lewis), Class Struggle in Ancient Greek Democracy (ERC Consolidator Grant, €1.9m) Honours: MAE (2013), FRSE (2018)l FBA (2018)