Veronica della Dora

Veronica della Dora
FBA
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Venice, Italy
NationalityItalian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ThesisGeographies of the Holy Mountain (2005)
Doctoral advisorDenis Cosgrove
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Main interests
  • Geo-humanities
  • landscape studies
  • history of cartography
  • sacred geographies
  • Byzantine and post-Byzantine studies
Notable works
  • High Places (2008)
  • Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium (2017)

Veronica della Dora FBA (born 1976) is an Italian cultural geographer. She is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is Director of the Social, Cultural & Historical Geography Group[1] and Co-Director of the Centre for GeoHumanities (with Harriet Hawkins).[2]

Della Dora comes from Venice and grew up living on the Lido.[3] She gained a PhD from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005, under the supervision of Denis Cosgrove. After leaving UCLA, she joined the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles as a post-doctoral fellow, before moving to the University of Bristol in 2007[4] as a lecturer. She joined Royal Holloway, University of London as Professor in September 2013.[5][6]

Her first monograph Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Mountain from Homer to World War II was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize in 2012. Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium was nominated for the 2017 Runciman Award.[3] In 2018, della Dora was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[7]

  1. ^ "Professor Veronica Della Dora". Geography: Researchers. Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. ^ "People: Directors". Centre for the GeoHumanities. Royal Holloway University of London. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b "An interview with Veronica della Dora, author of Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium". Runciman Awards. 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. ^ "History of Geography at the University of Bristol" (PDF). University of Bristol. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Prof David Gilbert announces appointment of Prof Veronica della Dora as new Professor in Human Geography from Sept 2013". Twitter. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Call for papers, February 2014". Cultural significance of place. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Professor Veronica Della Dora". British Academy. Retrieved 2 September 2018.