1995 Ph. D., Department of Classical Studies, Duke University Dissertation: “Gender Differentiation and Narrative Construction in Propertius” Professor Lawrence Richardson, jr, Director
1995 NEH Summer Institute: “The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies,” Brown University, June 14-July 18
1990 B.A. with Distinction in all Subjects, Cornell University Summa cum Laude in Classics, Majors in Classics and Archaeology
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2018 NEH Summer Stipend for the project “Eugenics and Classical Scholarship in Early 20th-Century America”
2009 Winner of the American Philological Association’s Award for Excellence in College Teaching
1992 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for the essay: “Is There a ‘Thesmophoria’ in This Text? Women’s Spheres in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae and Thesmophoriazusae ”
WORK IN PROGRESS
Ongoing project on eugenics and early twentieth-century American classical scholarship
Chapter entitled “‘Perhaps it matters little to what race Terence belongs’: Reading the Africanness of Terentius Afer” for The Handbook of Classics and Postcolonial Theory (eds. Ben Akrigg and Katherine Blouin)
Chapter entitled “Race, Roman law courts, and the colonized subject: teaching Cicero’s Pro Fonteio” for Inclusivity and Diversity in Classics: Case Studies from Academia (ed. Fiona McHardy)
Forthcoming
Edited volume,The Cultural History of Race in Antiquity(Bloomsbury); served as editor and wrote a 10,000-word introduction
“Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and John Scott: race and the rise of American classical philology” in theAmerican Journal of Philology(part of atwo volume special series on “Diversifying Classical Philology” edited by Emily Greenwood)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
with Zara Torlone, Latin Love Poetry (I. B Tauris/Oxford University Press, 2013)
Race: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B. Tauris/Oxford University Press, 2012)
with Emily Zakin, eds., Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism,” in A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity, eds. Paul Cartledge and Carol Atack (Bloomsbury, 2021), 137-155.
“The Great Escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus’ Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire” in Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World, eds. Allison Surtees and Jennifer Dyer (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 209-221.
Entry on “race” (5,000-word review essay) for the Oxford Classical Dictionary digital edition (2020)
“The Subjects of Slavery in 19th-century American Latin Schoolbooks,” Classical Journal Forum 115.1 (2019), 88–113.
with Mary Jean Corbett, “Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles’ Antigone,” in A Companion to Sophocles, ed. Kirk Ormand (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 462-76.
with Emily Zakin, “Introduction,” in
Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009), 1-14.
“The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles’ Electra” in Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis (SUNY Press, 2009), 221-245.
“Naming the Fault in Question: Theorizing Racism among the Greeks and Romans” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13 (Fall 2006), 243-67.
“Gender at the Crossroads of Empire: Locating Women in Strabo’s Geography” in Strabo’s Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia, eds. Daniela Dueck, Hugh Lindsay, and Sarah Pothecary (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 56-72.
“On Black Athena, Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the Problem of Race in Antiquity,” in Race and Ethnicity—Across Time, Space and Discipline, ed. Rodney D. Coates (Brill Press, 2004), 297-330.
“Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference” Diaspora 12.3 (2003), 387-418.
“By Any Other Name? Ethnicity and the Study of Ancient Identity” Classical Bulletin 79.1 (2003), 93-109.
“Race Before ‘Whiteness’: Studying Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt” Critical Sociology 28 (2002), 13-39.
“Murder by Letters: Interpretation, Identity and the Instability of Text in Norfolk’s Lemprière’s Dictionary,” Classical and Modern Literature 20/2 (2000), 39-59.
“Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius,” Ramus 28 (1999), 16-39. “Answering the Multicultural Imperative: A Course on Race and Ethnicity in Classics,” Classical World 92 (1999), 553-561.
“‘I, whom she detested so bitterly’: Slavery and the Violent Division of Women in Aeschylus’ Oresteia,” in Differential Equations: Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, edd. Sheila Murnaghan and Sandra R. Joshel (Routledge 1998), 35-55.
“Black and Female: The Politics of Interpretation in Classical Texts,” SAPINA Bulletin, A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 6.1 (January-June 1994), 1-12.
“On Reading ‘Black’ and ‘Female’ in Antique Texts,” SAPINA Newsletter, A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 4. 1 (January-July 1992), 1-12.
