Emma Dench Biography

Emma Dench was born in York grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon and studied at Wadham College Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores 1987) and at St. Hugh's College Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History 1993). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007 she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College University of London (1992–2006). She has been a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford (1989–91) a Rome Scholar (1991–92) and a Hugh Last Fellow (1996) at the British School of Rome a Cotton Fellow (1997–98) a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton (2002–03) and a Visiting Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard (2005–06) and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow (2011–12). She will deliver the Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge in May 2016.
Emma Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek Roman and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines (Clarendon Press Oxford 1995) and Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian (Oxford University Press 2005). She is currently completing Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.

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