Ann Ellis Hanson is an American

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

who holds the position of senior research scholar and lecturer in the Department of Classics at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Professor Hanson received a B.A. (1957) and an M.A. (1963) from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, and a PhD (1971) from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. Her teaching career included posts at

Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...

(1968-1975), the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, the Intercollegiate Center in Rome, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1985-6), the University of Michigan, and the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. Her research contributions to classical studies lie in papyrology and in the study of ancient medicine, in both cases showing how sources outside the canon can provide new perspectives on the ancient Mediterranean.

Awards

* 1992

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

Works

"The Hippocratic ''Parthenos'' in Sickness and Health"
''Virginity revisited: configurations of the unpossessed body'', Editors Bonnie MacLachlan, Judith Fletcher, University of Toronto Press, 2007, *Roman Medicine, ''A Companion to the Roman Empire'' (2006), Editor David S. Potter, Blackwell Publishing, 2006
"The Widow Babatha and the Poor Orphan Boy"
''Law in the documents of the Judaean desert'', Editors Ranon Katzoff, David M. Schaps, BRILL, 2005,
'"Your mother nursed you with bile": anger in babies and small children'
''Ancient anger: perspectives from Homer to Galen'', Editors Susanna Morton Braund, Glenn W. Most, Cambridge University Press, 2003, *''On government and law in Roman Egypt: collected papers of Naphtali Lewis'', Authors Naphtali Lewis, Editor Ann Ellis Hanson, Scholars Press, 1995,
"Continuity and Change: Three Case Studies in Hippocratic Gynecological Therapy and Theory"
''Women's history and ancient history'', Editor Sarah B. Pomeroy, UNC Press, 1991,
"Medical Writers' Woman"
''Before sexuality: the construction of erotic experience in the ancient Greek world'', Editors

David M. Halperin David M. Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. He is the cofounder of '' GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'', and autho ...

John J. Winkler John Jack Winkler (11 August 1943, in St. Louis – 26 April 1990, in Stanford, California) was an American philologist and Benedictine monk. Winkler studied classical studies at Saint Louis University from 1960 to 1963 and then went to England, ...

Froma Zeitlin Froma I. Zeitlin is an American Classics scholar. She specializes in ancient Greek literature, with particular interests in epic, drama and prose fiction, along with work in gender criticism, and the relationship between art and text in the cont ...

, Princeton University Press, 1990, *''Collectanea papyrologica: texts published in honor of H.C. Youtie'', Volumes 1-2, Editor Ann Ellis Hanson, Habelt, 1976, *''Studies in the textual tradition and transmission of the gynecological treatises of the Hippocratic corpus'', University of Pennsylvania, 1971

References

External links

*https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/sa_hippint.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanson, Ann Ellis Yale University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) MacArthur Fellows American papyrologists 21st-century American historians American women historians University of Michigan alumni 21st-century American women