Veronica della Dora explained

Veronica della Dora
Birth Place:	Venice, Italy
Nationality:	Italian
Alma Mater:	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Title:	Geographies of the Holy Mountain
Thesis Year:	2005
Doctoral Advisor:	Denis Cosgrove
Discipline:	Geography

Veronica della Dora (born 1976) is an Italian cultural geographer. She is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is Director of the Social, Cultural & Historical Geography Group^[1] and Co-Director of the Centre for GeoHumanities (with Harriet Hawkins).^[2]

Della Dora comes from Venice and grew up living on the Lido. She gained a PhD from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005, under the supervision of Denis Cosgrove. After leaving UCLA, she joined the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles as a post-doctoral fellow, before moving to the University of Bristol in 2007^[3] as a lecturer. She joined Royal Holloway, University of London as Professor in September 2013.^{[4] [5]}

Her first monograph Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Mountain from Homer to World War II was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize in 2012. Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium was nominated for the 2017 Runciman Award.^[6] In 2018, della Dora was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.^[7]

Selected publications

• High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice (2008, Cosgrove, D and della Dora, V.; I.B. Tauris:)
• Visual and Historical Geographies: Essays in Honour of Denis E. Cosgrove (2010, edited by della Dora, V; Digby, S; Basdas, B.; Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, 2010:)
• Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II (2011, University of Virginia Press:)
• Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred (2014, Maddrell, Avril ; della Dora, Veronica; Scafi, Alessandro; Walton, Heather; Routledge:)
• Mountain: Nature and Culture (2016, Reaktion Books:)
• Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium (2016, Cambridge University Press:)
• The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor (2021, University of Chicago Press:)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Veronica Della Dora . Geography: Researchers . Royal Holloway, University of London . 2 September 2018.
2. Web site: People: Directors . Centre for the GeoHumanities . Royal Holloway University of London . 2 May 2020 . en-gb.
3. Web site: History of Geography at the University of Bristol . University of Bristol . 13 April 2019.
4. Web site: Prof David Gilbert announces appointment of Prof Veronica della Dora as new Professor in Human Geography from Sept 2013 . Twitter . 13 April 2019.
5. Web site: Call for papers, February 2014. Cultural significance of place. 5 February 2014 . 13 April 2019.
6. Web site: An interview with Veronica della Dora, author of Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium . Runciman Awards . 2 September 2018 . 2017.
7. Web site: Professor Veronica Della Dora . . 2 September 2018.