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Books The mirror of the self, Actors in the Audience, Decoding the ancient novel, Ideology in Cold Blood, Persius: A Study in Food - Phi |
Shadi bartsch the wisdom of fools christianity and the break in the classical tradition
Shadi Bartsch (born March 17, 1966) is an American academic and is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. She has previously held professorships at the University of California Berkeley and Brown University where she was the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics in 2008-2009.
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- Shadi bartsch the wisdom of fools christianity and the break in the classical tradition
- Humanities through classics what does the future hold symposium shadi bartsch
- Life
- Career
- Books published
- Translations
- References

Humanities through classics what does the future hold symposium shadi bartsch
Life

Bartsch is the daughter of a UN economist and spent her childhood in London, Geneva, Tehran, Jakarta, and the Fiji Islands. She earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1987 and both her M.A. and Ph.D. (1992) from the University of California-Berkeley in Latin and classics, respectively. She is married to Robert Zimmer.
Career

Bartsch has contributed to classical scholarship, more specifically in the areas of the literature and culture of Julio-Claudian Rome, the ancient novel, Roman stoicism, and the classical tradition. She was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College in 2000 and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2006 at the University of Chicago. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Bartsch also served as Chair of the Faculty Board of the University of Chicago Press from 2006-2008 and Editor-in-Chief of Classical Philology from 2000-2004 and 2014 onwards. She has been appointed the Inaugural Director of the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.
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