Mika Provata-Carlone *02 COM
Independent Scholar, Writer, Translator
Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator
Mika Provata-Carlone *02 is a London-based independent scholar and researcher, with a long career as a translator, editorial consultant, writer and literary critic. She has also worked as an illustrator and photographer. Her academic fields include classics, philosophy, history of art, English and French literature, European studies, film and drama. She has degrees from the University of Athens (B.A., First Class Honours), the Sorbonne (Diplôme), the University of Sussex (M.A.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.). She is the chair of the Princeton Alumni Schools Committee of the U.K., the Netherlands and France, and a Princeton Schools Committee mentor for several regions. She has been a GradFUTURES mentor since the program’s launch in 2020, advising doctoral students in several departments at Princeton. For her work as ASC chair she received the Princeton Schools Committee S. Barksdale Penick, Jr. 1925 Award (2010) and the Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton (2018).