Emily Greenwood facts for kids
Emily Greenwood is a brilliant professor who teaches about ancient Greece and Rome at Harvard University. She studies 'Classics,' which is the study of ancient cultures, languages, and history. Before Harvard, she taught at other famous universities like Princeton University and Yale University.
Professor Greenwood loves to research how people in ancient times wrote history, especially writers like Thucydides and Herodotus. She also looks at how people from different cultures, especially Black traditions, have understood and used ideas from ancient Greece and Rome throughout history. Her work explores how ancient Greek and Roman ideas have been used and changed from the late 1800s until today.
Early Life and Learning
Emily Greenwood was born in the Cayman Islands. Her background is both British and Ugandan.
She earned a special scholarship to attend Sevenoaks School, which is a boarding school. Later, she studied Classics at the University of Cambridge in England. There, she earned her bachelor's degree, master's degree, and a PhD. Her PhD research, finished in 2001, was about how writers in ancient times became critics.
Her Career and Achievements
After finishing her studies, Professor Greenwood worked as a research fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. From 2002 to 2008, she taught Greek at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. In 2009, she joined the Classics Department at Yale University, where she became a full professor in October 2020.
In 2011, she won the Runciman Award for her book called Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century. This book explores how ancient Greek ideas connect with literature from the Caribbean.
Professor Greenwood has given many important talks. In 2017, she gave the main speech at Yale College, titled "The University we Build." In 2018, she spoke about how ancient studies connect with Black experimental writing. In 2019, she gave a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin about storytelling and fairness, focusing on how to resist harmful ideas in famous old books.
Since 2022, Professor Greenwood has been teaching at Harvard University. She holds a special position that combines the study of Classics with Comparative Literature. In 2023, she was honored by Downing College, Cambridge, where she became an Honorary Fellow. She also helps edit a book series for Cambridge University Press called 'Classics after Antiquity'.
