Kenneth Sacks is an American historian and classicist, noted for his work on

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...

. Currently he serves as Professor of History and Classics 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 ...

, where he was previously Dean of the

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. A graduate of the

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, Sacks received his PhD from 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 ...

, where he studied under

Erich S. Gruen Erich Stephen Gruen ( , ; born May 7, 1935) is an American classicist and ancient historian. He was the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught full-time from 1966 until 2008 ...

and

Raphael Sealey Raphael Sealey (14 August 1927, Middlesbrough, England – 29 November 2013, Berkeley, California) was a classical scholar and ancient historian. Sealey studied at University College, Oxford in England under George Cawkwell, receiving an M.A. from ...

. He then taught at the

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until 1995, when he joined Brown as Dean of the College. The author of two books on Greek historians, ''Polybius on the Writing of History'' (1981) and ''Diodorus Siculus and the First Century'' (1990, a ''Choice'' "Outstanding Academic Book of 1991), he is most recently the author of ''Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance'' (2003). Sacks is additionally the editor of the volume on Emerson for the Cambridge Texts in History of Political Thought.

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