Joy Connolly is an American scholar of classics and the president of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was previously interim president[1] and provost[2] of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was formerly a professor of classics and the dean for humanities at New York University.[3] Connolly's main research interests are Roman republicanism, rhetoric, civic discourse, classical reception, and the role that aesthetic experience plays in the formation of political judgement.
Joy Connolly | |
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 Connolly in 2022 | |
| Born | 1970 Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
| Organization | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Title | President, Distinguished Professor of Classics |
Early life and education
editConnolly was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and now is a member of the school's board of trustees.[4]
Connolly received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, 1991. In 1997, she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.[5]
Career
editIn 1997, she joined the classics faculty as assistant professor of classics at the University of Washington in Seattle.[6] In 2000, she was hired by the classics department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she taught both classics and political science classes.[6] In 2004, she joined the faculty of New York University in Manhattan, where she was subsequently promoted to associate professor in 2007 and professor in 2014.[6] In 2016, she was named provost, senior vice president, and distinguished professor of classics at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan.[6]
Connolly has published two monographs on Roman rhetoric and politics. The first, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome,[7] was published in 2007 by Princeton University Press; the second, The Life of Roman Republicanism,[8] also published by Princeton and appeared in 2014.
She has published articles in The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation,[9] The Women's Review of Books, and The New York Times Book Review.[10]
Connolly has served on the board of directors of the Society of Classical Studies[11] and is currently a member of the Advanced Seminar in Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies sponsored by Venice International University.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Appointment of Interim President".
- ^ "The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Names Its Next Provost". WIA Report. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ "Office of the Dean of Humanities". NYU. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "Board of Trustees - Middlesex School". Middlesex School. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ "Joy Connolly". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ a b c d Connolly, Joy (2018). "CV" (PDF).
- ^ Connolly, Joy (5 August 2007). The State of Speech. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691123646. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ Connolly, Joy (26 October 2014). The Life of Roman Republicanism. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691162591. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ Connolly, Joy (2009-10-21). "A City Unbottled: Mary Beard's Pompeii". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ Connolly, Joy (2004-12-05). "'Gilgamesh': The Iraq War, 2500 B.C." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Society for Classical Studies. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ "Advanced Seminar in the Humanities 2015-2016 - Venice International University". www.univiu.org. Retrieved 2017-10-10.