Stephen Todd

Biography

Stephen Todd (MA, PhD, Cambridge, 1985) joined the Department in August 2000, after two years as Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge (1985-87), followed by thirteen years at the University of Keele as Lecturer and (from 1996) Senior Lecturer. He was promoted to a Readership at Manchester in 2001, and to a Professorship in Ancient History in 2006.

He has held visiting research positions at Wolfson College, Oxford (visiting scholar, 1991), the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC (stipendiary Junior Fellow, 1995/96), Clare Hall, Cambridge (Visiting Fellow, 1997), and the University of Texas at Austin (Visiting Professor, 2009). Other externally-funded awards held while at the University of Manchester include a fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation (Aug-Dec 2016) and a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship (Jan-Dec 2017), both of which are for the completion of a draft of his current major project, the second volume of a multi-vol. Commentary on the Speeches of Lysias (the first volume of which was published by OUP in 2007).

Stephen was for ten years a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, and is currently a member of the comitato scientifico for Dike: rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico. He is a regular contributor to the Symposia of the Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte. He was among an international team of scholars who were invited to participate in the transcription and/or interpretation of the five pages of new speeches (Against Timandros and Against Diondas: for the latter, cf. his paper in BICS 2009) by the Athenian Orator Hypereides that form part of the Archimedes Palimpsest.