European research award success
A University researcher has received a major European award to investigate the language used to express emotions in classical texts.
Professor Douglas Cairns of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology has been named as one of eight recipients of a Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Award.
Academic achievements
The €250,000 awards are presented to world-class researchers whose academic achievements have been internationally recognised in their research area.
The awards give academics the opportunity to work in collaboration with researchers in Germany on a project of up to five years.
Research Collaboration
Professor Cairns will be cooperating with Technische Universität Dresden on the traces of the emotions, with a focus on the linguistic handling of emotions in ancient texts.
Having benefited enormously from the Humboldt Foundation’s support in the past, I am delighted and honoured to have received this award. This will provide a fantastic opportunity for collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, both in their DFG project on invective and my own Edinburgh ERC project on honour, and will allow German PhD students and post-docs to pursue projects in emotion history both at home and in Edinburgh.’