Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris
Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik
Universität Innsbruck – Ágnes-Heller-Haus
Innrain 52a
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Zimmernummer 05E010 (5. Stock)
Tel.: +43 (0)512/507-41026
E-Mail: Ian.Macgregor-Morris@uibk.ac.at
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9853-8956
https://sbg.academia.edu/IanMacgregorMorris
Ph.D. in History (University of Manchester) | B.A. (Hons) in Ancient History & Social Anthropology (University College London)
Research Interests
- Ancient History: Achaemenid Persia, Sparta
- Early Modern History: eighteenth-century political culture, travel writing, hellenism
- History of ideas: the classical tradition, historiography
Positions
- 2024-present Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ancient History & Ancient Near Eastern Studies,
University of Innsbruck - 2023-present Member of the Steering Committee, International Sparta Seminar
- 2022 Visiting Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), University of Leiden
- 2022 (May) Visiting Lecturer, American University of Cairo
- 2019-present Member of the Academic Board, Cairo Research Centre
- 2015-present Senior Lecturer, Department of English & American Studies, University of Salzburg
- 2010-2014 Lecturer, Personalentwicklung, University of Salzburg
- 2004-2009 Research Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham
- 2001-2004 University Fellow, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter
- 2000-2001 Research Associate, Department of History, University of Manchester
- 1996-1997 Visiting tutor, Department of Classics, University of Keele
Additional Academic Activities
- peer reviewer for Oxford University Press, The Classical Press of Wales, the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the European Review of History, and the Classical Journal.
- Media activities: Consultant and primary contributor on “Finding Sparta’s 300”. Unearthed, Season 5, Ep. 06 (Discovery Science Channel, premiere: 18.08.19). [German-language version: “Schlachtfeld der Spartaner”. Alte Baukunst neu entschlüsselt, S4E6 (air date 28.12.2019)]
Teaching
Teaching activities [pdf, 103 KB | version: March 2025]
Publications
Publication list [pdf, 98 KB | version: March 2025]
Conferences and Lectures
Conferences & Lectures [pdf, 100 KB | version: March 2025]