Julia Kindt

Julia Kindt is Professor of Ancient History, ARC Future Fellow (2018-22), and elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The first woman appointed full professor in Classics and Ancient History at Sydney University she is a historian of ancient Greece with a broad interest in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the ancient world, in particular in the history of ideas, religion, historiography, classical receptions, and the environmental humanities. Kindt has authored three books, and (co-)edited four (two more are currently in production). Her most recent book, The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures that Make Us Human was released by Cambridge University Press in January 2024.