Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora)

Theodora Jim is an Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham in the UK. An ancient historian specializing in the religion and culture of Ancient Greece, she is interested in worshippers’ religious beliefs and lived experience and the comparative study of different polytheistic systems. While at Harvard Yenching, she will be conducting research for a book on comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism. Her work makes extensive use of epigraphic and literary evidence, and engages with anthropological approaches. She is the author of Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2014) and Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2022). She is the Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme-funded project comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism and a holder of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Classics 2021.