11 Facts About Margalit Finkelberg

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Margalit Finkelberg is an Israeli historian and linguist.

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Margalit Finkelberg is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University.

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Margalit Finkelberg became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies from 2011 to 2016.

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Margalit Finkelberg began teaching in 1987 at the Hebrew University and from 1991 taught at Tel Aviv University.

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From 1999 to 2000, Margalit Finkelberg studied as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she began to craft her future book Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.

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In 2005, Margalit Finkelberg became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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From 2006 to 2007, Margalit Finkelberg was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Margalit Finkelberg was the 2012 Recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities.

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In 2013, Margalit Finkelberg sat on the Dan David Prize Review Committee for Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World.

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Margalit Finkelberg was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and an International Visiting Research Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

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In 2016, Margalit Finkelberg stepped down as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.