About Denver Graninger

Denver Graninger (Ph.D. Classics, Cornell 2006) is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor (2024–2027) at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He has long experience with the ASCSA as student (Regular Member and Jameson Fellow, 2002–2003), faculty (Carpenter Fellow, (2008–2010); Gertrude Smith Professor, Summer 2016), and Managing Committee member (2013-current, including service on the Admissions and Fellowships (2015–2019) and Executive Committees (2021–2024). He has been active in the wider field of international education through his term as Director and Professor of the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS), Bulgaria (2010–2012), his organization of UCR summer study abroad programs in Athens (2015, 2016, and 2018), and his service on the UCR and UC-systemwide Senate Committees for International Education (2020–2023). Graninger has excavated at ancient Corinth and Mitrou (east Lokris).

Graninger has specific research foci in the politics of cult along the margins of Hellenism; he works closely with literary and material sources alike, especially inscriptions. He is author of Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly, Leiden/Boston 2011 and co-editor, with J. Valeva and E. Nankov, of A Companion to Ancient Thrace, Malden, MA 2015. For Graninger’s articles and reviews, please visit here.

Current research projects include: a monograph treating the social history of Larisa, a major city in Thessaly in northern Greece, from prehistory through the city’s incorporation within the modern Greek state in 1881, with emphasis on the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods and focused discussion of ethnicity, mobility, religion, and gender; and article-length studies on “The Local Worlds of the Zone Bilingual” and “Kingless Thracians.”