Corinne BonnetView profile
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Corinne Bonnet is a Professor of Greek History at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, where she has been employed since 2003. She is affiliated with the Heritage, Literature, History (PLH) research laboratory and served as its Deputy Director since January 2018. Her academic career spans several prestigious institutions including the University of Liège, University Faculties Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Belgium, and various Italian institutions such as the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Her educational background includes: Master's degree in Ancient History from the University of Liège (1981) Agrégation of Higher Education (1981) Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters (History) at the University of Liège (1987) Habilitation to Direct Research from the University of Grenoble II Pierre Mendès France (2002) Professor Bonnet's research focuses on the history of religions in the Mediterranean world, with particular emphasis on the Phoenician and Punic civilizations. Her work explores how divine names and epithets function as interfaces between religious systems and human agency, examining the complex interactions between different religious traditions in the ancient Mediterranean. She employs interdisciplinary approaches that combine historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives to understand ancient polytheistic systems. Her recent publications demonstrate a growing focus on digital humanities approaches to religious studies, particularly through the ERC Advanced Grant project "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms" which she led from 2017-2022. This work has produced significant insights into how divine epithets structure religious systems and shape human religious experience in the ancient world. Her notable scientific achievements include: Alexander von Humboldt Scholar (University of Tübingen, 1991) Senior Member of the Institut universitaire de France (2010-2015) Foreign Correspondent of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, Institut de France (2012) Winner of the Franz Cumont Prize for the History of Religions (2015) Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lausanne (2016) Professor Bonnet has supervised numerous doctoral students and has secured significant research funding, most notably the ERC Advanced Grant 741182 project "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms" (2017-2022). She has also served as Deputy Director of Labex SMS (Structuring Social Worlds) since 2015 and co-directs the University Diploma "Politics Religion Secularism" supported by UT2J and Sciences Po Toulouse since 2016. She leads the ERC project team "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms" which brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to create a comprehensive database of divine epithets across the ancient Mediterranean world. This international collaborative effort represents a cutting-edge approach to the study of ancient religions through digital humanities methodologies.
