Bruce Elliot Donovan (March 8, 1937 – July 11, 2011) was a
U.S. academic, university administrator and leading authority on Greek
papyrology. He held the titles of Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the college at
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
. He also served for many years as chairman of Brown's Classics Department and as president of Brown's
Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
Donovan graduated from Brown University in 1959 and received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale in 1965. He served as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies. His writings included ''Studies In The Literary Papyri Of Oxyrhynchus'' (1964) and ''Euripides Papyri'' (1969), as well as fifty original monographs in his field. He also was a recognized authority on
Homeric fragments.
Donovan later became an authority on chemical dependency on college campuses. In 1977, he was named Brown University's first Dean of Chemical Dependency.
[Greenagel, Frank L., Jr. "The History of Collegiate Recovery Programs." Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, October 12, 2016]
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1937 births
2011 deaths
Brown University faculty
Brown University alumni