Dr. Emma Dench

Biography

Emma Dench is the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Classics and History. Dench completed her BA with Honors in Literae Humaniores at Wadham College, Oxford in 1987 and received her DPhil in Ancient History from St. Hugh's College, Oxford in 1993. Her academic career includes teaching Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London from 1992 to 2006, and serving as a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford as well as a Rome Scholar. She has held various prestigious positions, including a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Visiting Professorship in Classics and History at Harvard. Dench has published several influential works, including 'Barbarians and New Men: Greek, Roman, Modern Perceptions of Peoples in the Central Apennines' and 'Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities in the Age of Alexander and the Age of Hadrian'. Her current research includes a project on the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past and she is completing a work on imperialism in the Roman world. Dench has received numerous accolades for her teaching and mentoring, including the Harvard College Professorship and the Everett Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students.

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