Academic Positions

Professor Kennedy received her BA from University of California, San Diego ('97) in Classical Studies and her MA ('99) and PhD ('03) from The Ohio State University in Greek and Latin. Before coming to Denison, she taught at Howard University, George Washington University and Union College. Her research interests include Athenian political history of the 5th century BC, Greek and Roman historiography and the influence of imperialism on Greek tragedy. Her current projects include a book-length study of the relationship between imperialism, ethnocentrism and democracy in ancient Athens as seen in tragedy and other public art and articles on the the historiography of Thucydides and Herodotus.