Roman Historian & Classicist; Dean at Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; Author of "From Barbarians to New Men"
Emma Dench Biography
Emma Dench is a Roman historian and classicist serving as the dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and as the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. Dench holds appointments in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard. Prior to her joint appointment at Harvard, she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Dench completed her academic training at Oxford, graduating from Wadham College with a double first, and later earning a D.Phil. She taught classics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York before returning to Oxford. Dench has held fellowships including the Craven Fellowship at the University of Oxford, the Rome Scholar and Hugh Last Fellowship at the British School of Rome, the Cotton Fellowship, and membership at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She also received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship.
Dench is the author of several works in Roman history, including "From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines" and "Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian." She has contributed to the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History with "Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World" and has studied the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity. Her research focuses on Barbarian identity, divine interaction in the Roman imperial world, and leadership lessons from Rome.
Dench has engaged in cross-disciplinary teaching, serving as a visiting professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, where she co-taught the MBA course "All Roads Lead to Rome: Leadership Lessons from Antiquity." She also teaches Latin writers such as Livy and Cicero and offers courses on the history of the Roman Empire.
As an academic administrator and educator, Dench has received recognition for her mentorship and student development. At Harvard, she earned a Harvard College Professorship for contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising, as well as the Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling and the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for graduate student mentorship. Dench has led initiatives to enhance the graduate student experience, including The Advising Project, which aims to improve advising practices and mentoring training for both faculty and students.
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