Anca Dan

I am a CNRS researcher (PSL, ENS Paris) working on the history of space and people representations (what we generally call "geography", "cartography", "ethnography"), from the Classical (Greek and Roman) world to the Medieval and Early Modern reception. My main focus is on historical descriptions and maps, that I edit, translate and comment, in order to reconstruct the ancient landscapes and to understand the cultural transfers that determined their representations. As an archaeologist, I am looking at the Greco-Roman cultural phenomenon from the perspective of its connections with other ancient cultures (Iranian, Jewish, Turkish).  I strongly believe in interdisciplinary cooperations for a better understanding of the perception and representation of spaces (cognitive studies) and for the reconstruction of the ancient environments (geosciences, paleobiology, new datation techniques).