Fellowship Report

Christopher A. Faraone is the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago, where he has taught for the last thirty-five years. His recent books include The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times (2018) and Women and Children First: The Earliest Evidence for Ancient Greek Body Amulets, István Hahn Lectures 7 (Budapest 2019). He is co-editor (with S. Torallas Tovar) of The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies (2022) and The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books and Individual Recipes (2022), that latter of which wone the Charles Goodwin Book Award in Classics.  Faraone has twice been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and has also won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has also been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (twice), the Getty Research Center in Malibu and the Institut d’Etudes Avancées in Paris.  At MagEia, he and Sofia Torallas Tovar finished the first draft of their new text, translation and commentary on the Paris Codex, the largest of the Greek-Egyptian magical handbooks.