Anca Dan

Anca Dan is an Associate Professor in Ancient Sciences at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) under the University of Paris Sciences & Lettres, with additional roles as a Research Fellow at CNRS (UMR 8546, AOROC). She serves as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and coordinates the national program "Humanities in the Text" (ENS-Ministry of Education-APLAES-CNARELA). Her affiliations include the French School of Athens, Labex TransferS, and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

Research Interests focus on:

• Historical geography of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions
• Geoarchaeological analysis of ancient landscapes
• Cultural transfers between Greco-Roman, Iranian, and Central Asian civilizations
• Reconstructions of paleoenvironments using interdisciplinary methods
• Ethnographic representations in antiquity
• Cosmography and cartographic thought from antiquity to the 19th century

Recent Publications reflect transdisciplinary approaches combining classical sources, archaeological data, and geoscience methodologies. Key topics include:

• Mediterranean-Black Sea environmental resilience
• Interpretation of ancient geographical concepts
• Cultural syncretism in Bactrian silverware
• Historical geography of Ottoman harbors
• Human-environment interactions in deltaic regions

Scientific Awards:

• Prix Lettres de la Chancellerie de l’Académie de Reims (2010)
• Fondation pour la Vocation fellowship (2007)
• DAAD boursière, Universität zu Köln (2019)
• Onassis Postdoc fellowship, National Foundation for Research, Athens (2009)
• Mention Très honorable avec félicitations du jury, Université de Reims (2009)

Academic Training: PhD in Greek Studies (Ancient Sciences, UMR AOROC, Université de Reims, 2009). Trained at École Normale Supérieure (1998-2004), Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne (Master’s in Classical Literature), and Universitatea București (Master’s in Classical Literature).