Veronica Della Dora

Veronica Della Dora FBA (born 1976) is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Social, Cultural & Historical Geography Group at Royal Holloway, University of London.[1]

She comes from Venice and grew up living on the Lido.[2]. She gained a PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005; her thesis title was "Geographies of the holy mountain : post-Byzantine and western representations of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos".[3]

Her book Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium was nominated for the 2017 Runciman Award.[2]

In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]

Selected publications

  • High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice (2008, Cosgrove, D and Della Dora, V.; I.B. Tauris: ISBN 9781845116170)
  • Visual and Historical Geographies: Essays in Honour of Denis E. Cosgrove (2010, edited by Della Dora, V; Digby, S; Basdas, B.; Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, 2010: ISBN 9781870074247)
  • Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II (2011, University of Virginia Press: ISBN 978-0-8139-3259-0)
  • Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred (2014, Maddrell, Avril ; Della Dora, Veronica; Scafi, Alessandro; Walton, Heather; Routledge: ISBN 978-0-415-84398-0)
  • Mountain: Nature and Culture (2016, Reaktion Books: ISBN 9781780236476)
  • Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium (2016, Cambridge University Press: ISBN 9781107139091)

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Veronica Della Dora". Geography: Researchers. Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 "An interview with Veronica della Dora, author of Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium". Runciman Awards. 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Catalogue record for thesis". Worldcat. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Professor Veronica Della Dora". British Academy. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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