Sarah B. Pomeroy

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Sarah B. Pomeroy
Born (1938-03-13) March 13, 1938 (age 86)
Graduate Center, CUNY, Hunter College

Sarah B. Pomeroy is an American Professor of Classics.

Early life and education

Sarah Pomeroy was born in New York City in 1938.

Roman Law at Columbia.[3][2]: 179  Her PhD dissertation studied the first published lease of an olive grove from Karanis in Egypt.[3]

Academic career

Pomeroy moved to

The University of Texas at Austin in order to take up her first job in 1961, where she worked until 1962.[2]: 179  In 1964 she took a post as a lecturer at Hunter College, where she remained until 1965.[2]: 179 [3] She worked at Brooklyn College from 1967 to 1968, before returning to Hunter in 1968, where she remained for the rest of her career.[2]: 179  She also began working as a faculty member in Classics at the Graduate School at City University of New York in 1978, and later was also appointed to the Program in History.[4] She was named a Distinguished Professor of Hunter College in 1996, and in 2003, she was awarded the title of Professor Emerita of Classics and History of Hunter College and The Graduate Center.[4]

Pomeroy has been the recipient of multiple distinguished fellowships and awards over the course of her career. She held a

Ford Foundation Fellowship, was recognised in the “Salute to Scholars” reception by the City University of New York in 1981–1982,[4]: 19  and won the City University President's Award in Scholarship in 1995.[2]
: 179  She was elected Guggenheim Fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1998, and has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Numismatic Society.[4]: 4  In 2003 she gave the Josephine Earle Memorial Lecture at Hunter College.[5] She has also been elected to the American Philosophical Society.[4]: 4 

Scholarship and influence

Pomeroy's first book,

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity was published in 1975 and is one of the first English works on women's history in any period.[6] Its lasting influence led to its reissue in 1994, and it has been described by an editor at Random House as "one of the five paradigm-changing books of the 20th century."[3] The work has been translated into German, Italian and Spanish.[2]: 179  It has since been used as a textbook in many university-level courses on gender studies,[7] and Pomeroy herself describes the book as being part of her teaching the "first course in America on women in antiquity."[3] Her other works include Xenophon, Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (1994), Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (1998), Spartan Women (2002), and, with Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, the textbooks Ancient Greece: a Political, Social, and Cultural History (4th edition, 2017) and A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture (3rd edition, 2011).[3]

Books
Front cover of Sarah B. Pomeroy's Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves. Women in Classical Antiquity (1975)

References

  1. ^ https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/old/sites/default/files/pdf/finding_aids/Sarah_B_Pomeroy_Papers.pdf
  2. ^
    ISBN 0313296642
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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Catenaccio, Claire (12 December 2019). "Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with Sarah B. Pomeroy". Society for Classical Studies.
  4. ^ a b c d e "The Sarah Pomeroy Papers Finding Aid" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Earle Lecturers (1938-Present) — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu.
  6. ^ Foxhall, Lin (2013). Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 7.
  7. ^ McClure, Laura (1997). "Teaching a Course on Gender in the Classical World". The Classical Journal. 92 (3): 262.

Further reading

  • Scanlon, Jennifer (ed.) American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press 1996.
    ISBN 0313296642

External links
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