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Name Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Position Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Women's and Gender Studies; Museum Director
Institutional Affiliation Denison University
Latitude 40.074025
Longitude -82.5248317
Research Interests

Greek history, Athens, political history, social history, women and gender, ethnicity, immigration, imperialism, identity formation

Websites https://denison.edu/people/rebecca-futo-kennedy; http://denison.academia.edu/RebeccaKennedy
Publications

"PUBLICATIONS
Monographs:

Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Routledge USA, May 2014). Reviewed in Classical Journal On-line, POLIS, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Classical World, Classical Review (forthcoming).
Athena’s Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy, Lang Classical Series, Vol. 16 (Peter Lang, 2009). Reviews: Classical Review 60.2:349-351; Greece & Rome 57:390; L'Antiquite Classique 80:249 (in French); Euphrosyne 39:444-445 (in Portuguese); Listy filologické 1-2/2012:185-188 (in Czech).
Edited Volumes:

Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook to Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (with Molly Jones-Lewis; Routledge UK, Dec 2015).
Editor, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (Brill Academic Publishers, under contract; due to press March 2016) in progress.
Translations/Primary Texts Sourcebooks:

Co-author, co-translator, and editor, Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources, trans. and ed. by R.F. Kennedy, C.S. Roy, and M.L. Goldman (Hackett, 2013). Reviews: Ancient History Bulletin Online 3: 96-99; BMCR 2014.12.29.
Co-author, co-translator, and editor, Ancient Greek and Roman Women: An Anthology of Primary Sources, trans. and ed. by R.F. Kennedy and M.L. Goldman (under contract, Hackett).
Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes:

“Airs, Waters, Metals, Earth: People and Environment in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought” in The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (2015).
“Otis Mason and Hippocratic Environmental Theory in Early Smithsonian Anthropological Displays” in E. Varto ed. Classics and Early Anthropology: A Companion (forthcoming, Brill Academic Publishers).
“Citizen Elite Women and the Origins of the Hetaira in Athens” Helios 42: 61-79 (2015).
“A Tale of Two Kings: Competing Aspects of Power in Aeschylus’ Persians” Ramus 42: 64-88 (2013).
“Justice, Geography and Empire in Aeschylus’ Eumenides” Classical Antiquity 25: 35-72 (2006).
Other Contributions:

Encyclopedia entries: “Celts” (250 words), “Climate” (1500 words), “ethnicity” (1500 words), “justice” (1000 words), “Deioces” (500 words), “judges” (500 words), “Tomyris” (500 words), “Bactrians” (250 words), “Massagetae” (250 words), “Miltiades, son of Cimon” (1500 words), “Sacae” (250 words), “Spargapises (100 words), for C. Baron (ed.) The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell) under contract.
Essay for The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C., 2nd edition. Reacting to the Past. (W.W. Norton, 2015). Contributions: “The Other Athenians: Women, Metics, and Slaves” (3500 words) and select characters.
Encyclopedia Entries: “Geography in Greek Tragedy” (2000 words) in H. Roisman (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Book Reviews:
Wijma, Sara M.: Embracing the Immigrant. The participation of metics in Athenian polis religion (5th-4th century BC) (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014) in progress for Journal of Hellenic Studies
Wijma, Sara M.: Embracing the Immigrant. The participation of metics in Athenian polis religion (5th-4th century BC) (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014) forthcoming in Klio
MacSweeney, N. (ed.) Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) Classical Journal On-line 2015.12.05.
Almagor, E., Skinner, J., eds. Ancient Ethnography. New Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Classical Review (2015) 65.2: 1-3.
Kellogg, D. Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai (Oxford University Press, 2013), Classical Journal-Online 2015.03.08.
Bakewell, G. Aeschylus's Suppliant Women: The Tragedy of Immigration (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought (2014) 31: 452-455.
Skinner, J. The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus (Oxford University Press, 2012) American Journal of Philology 135.2.
Tzanetou, A. City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire (University of Texas Press, 2012) The Historian 76.1:190-192.
Azoulay, V. and P. Ismard (edd.) Clisthène et Lycurgue d’Athènes. Autour du politique dans la cité classique (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011) Classical Review (2013) 63.2: 496-498.
McCoskey, D. Race. Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B. Tauris, 2012) Classical Review (2013) 63.1: 260-262.
Taylor, M. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War (Cambridge University Press, 2010). New England Classical Journal (2011) 38.2: 115-17.
Scodel, R. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2011). The Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 2011.1.53-55.
Sowerby, R. The Greeks: an introduction to their culture, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.36.
Rosenbloom, D. Aeschylus: Persians (Duckworth, 2006) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.11.24
Storey, I. and A. Allan A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell, 2005). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.43.
Anderson, G. The Athenian Experiment: Building an Imagined Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490BC (Michigan, 2003). Classical Journal (2005) 100.3:316-318."
from https://denison.edu/people/rebecca-futo-kennedy on 6-12-17.

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