Kristina Milnor is

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in the Department of Classics and Ancient Studies at

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

, Columbia University. She specialises in

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literature,

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history,

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theory and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

Education

Milnor received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1998. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Suis omnia tuta locis: ''Women, Place, and Public Life in the Age of Augustus.''

Career

Milnor joined the faculty at Barnard in 1998. Her first book,''Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of

Augustus Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Pri ...

: Inventing Private Life'', was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. It won the Goodwin Award of Merit from the

American Philological Association The Society for Classical Studies (SCS), formerly known as the American Philological Association (APA) is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization founded in 1869. It is the preemine ...

in 2006. Milnor received a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by The American Council of Learned Societies at the

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, Princeton University, 2008–9. Her second book, ''Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman

Pompeii Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

'', was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. This was credited with 'clarity, measured scholarship and critical rigour' in reviews.

Bibliography

* ''Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii'' (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2014) * 'Women in Roman Society', ''The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World'', ed. by Michael Peachin (Oxford University Press; 2011) 609-22 * 'Women, ''The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies'', ed. by Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel (Oxford University Press, 2010) 815-26 * 'Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: The Case of Vergil's ''Aeneid','' William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker, ''Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) * ''The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians'', ed. by Andrew Feldherr, 'Women in Roman Historiograhy', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) * ''Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) * 'Livy, Augustus, and the Landscape of the Law', ''Arethusa'' 40.1 (2007) 7-23

External references

External links

* SCS Paper Abstract: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/150/abstract/lgbtq-parenting-and-profession * Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DOoZdUIAAAAJ&hl=en * Staff Profile Page: https://barnard.edu/profiles/kristina-milnor {{DEFAULTSORT:Milnor, Kristina Living people American women historians American women academics Historians of antiquity Historians of the Mediterranean Year of birth missing (living people)