Sarah B. Pomeroy | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1938-03-13)March 13, 1938 (age 87)[1] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Barnard College (BA)Columbia University |
| Thesis | (1961) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Day |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ancient History,Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Women in Ancient Rome,Women in Ancient Greece |
| Institutions | Graduate Center, CUNY,Hunter College |
Sarah B. Pomeroy (born March 13, 1938) is an AmericanProfessor ofClassics.
Sarah Pomeroy was born in New York City in 1938.[2]: 179 She attended theBirch Wathen School, taking Latin and ancient history among other subjects.[3] She graduated high school at age 16, and began a degree course atBarnard College in Classics, taking courses atColumbia University alongside those at Barnard, due to the small size of the Barnard department at the time.[3] Pomeroy graduated in 1957, at the age of nineteen, and began a course of graduate study at Columbia, under the supervision ofEve Harrison andOtto Brendel.[3] During her graduate study, she worked on papyrology with John Day, and from 1962 to 1963, she also undertook a course of study inRoman Law at Columbia.[3][2]: 179 Her PhD dissertation studied the first published lease of an olive grove from Karanis in Egypt.[3]
Pomeroy moved toThe 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 atHunter College, where she remained until 1965.[2]: 179 [3] She worked atBrooklyn 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 atCity University of New York in 1978, and later was also appointed to the Program inHistory.[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 aFord 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 theJohn 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, theAndrew 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 theAmerican Philosophical Society.[4]: 4
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 atRandom 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 includeXenophon, 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 textbooksAncient Greece: a Political, Social, and Cultural History (4th edition, 2017) andA Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture (3rd edition, 2011).[3]
