Jessica Stephens

Associate Teaching Professor

Office: Boswell 336
Phone: 757 221 2160
Email: [[jstephens01]]
Research interests: Memory and identity in the late Roman Republic and early imperial period, ideas about human difference from the ancient to the modern world, slavery in antiquity, Latin and Greek philology, the historiography of the field of Classical Studies, and cultural exchange across the ancient Mediterranean.

Education and Degrees:
Truman State University, English (BA, summa cum laude, 2003)
University of Colorado at Boulder, Classical Antiquity (MA 2006)
University of Michigan, History (MA 2013)
University of Michigan, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History (PhD 2016)

Prof. Stephens is a Greek and Roman historian who teaches courses on military and political history, social history, ancient conceptions of human difference, slavery, and historiography. She also teaches Latin at all levels.