Joy Connolly is an American scholar of classics and the president of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was previously interim president and provost of The Graduate Center, CUNY. She was formerly a professor of classics and the dean for

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. 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.

Education

She is an alumna of and now serves on the board of Trustees for

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in Massachusetts. Connolly graduated from

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in 1991, and did her graduate work at the

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, receiving her PhD in 1997.

Career

In 1997 she joined the classics faculty as assistant professor of classics at the

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. In 2000, she was hired by the classics department at Stanford, and there taught both classics and political science classes. In 2004, she joined the faculty at

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, where she was subsequently promoted to associate professor (2007) and professor (2014). In 2016 she was named provost, senior vice president and distinguished professor of classics at The Graduate Center of

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. Connolly has published two monographs on Roman rhetoric and politics. The first, ''The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome'', was published in 2007 by

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; the second, ''The Life of Roman Republicanism'', also published by Princeton and appeared in 2014. She has published in classics and politics journals, and also contributes articles to ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the '' New York Times Book Review''. Connolly has served on the board of directors of the Society of Classical Studies and is currently a member of the Advanced Seminar in Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies sponsored by the Venice International University.

References

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