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A specialist in education in the Greek and Roman worlds, papyrology, and ancient rhetoric, joins as a Professor the Department of Classics at NYU from Columbia University where she was Curator of Papyri in Rare Book and Manuscript Library and adjunct Professor in the Department of Classics. She has written three books on ancient education:
Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta 1996);
Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton 2001), which won the prestigious Goodwin Award of the American Philological Association in 2004; and
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (Princeton 2007). She also coauthored with R.S. Bagnall the book
Women’s Letters in Ancient Egypt: 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor 2006). She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2004 and has written ca. 40 articles, primarily on ancient education.
