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Scarlett Kingsley

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Classics

Position: Graduate Student

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I am currently a second year PhD student in Literature and Philology in the Department of Classics at Princeton University. I received my undergraduate degree (2007) in Greek and Latin from Florida State University. As an undergraduate, I completed a dissertation under the aegis of Laurel Fulkerson and John Marincola on the disenfranchised elite in Republican Rome, entitled: “Fulvia: Allusions of Grandeur.” Following this, I completed an M. St. at Christ Church, Oxford (2009), graduating with a distinction after writing a thesis supervised by Tim Rood, entitled: “Thucydides and the Sociology of the Neoi and Presbuteroi.” This thesis explores the use of generational distinction as an explanatory strategy in the context of historical causation.

My main research focus is Greek historiography, and I remain interested in the explanatory paradigms of historical causation which the first exponents of historical writing employ. I am also particularly interested in the synchronism of the emergence of Greek democracy and the discipline of historical writing during the 6^th and 5^th centuries in Greece, a topic which I hope to explore further in my dissertation.

As a graduate student I have taught undergraduate Greek language courses at all levels, as well as a Greek literature course, in the original Greek, on Plato’s Apology.

Department of Classics - Princeton University

Scarlett Kingsley

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