Carolyn Dewald Explained

Carolyn Dewald
Occupation:	Academic Classicist
Alma Mater:	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Year:	1975
Workplaces:	Stanford University of Southern California Bard College All Souls College, Oxford
Main Interests:	Classics Greek historiography Herodotus Thucydides

Carolyn Dewald is an American classical scholar who is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Bard College.^[1] She is an expert on ancient Greek historiography, and the author of several books and articles focusing on the writings of Herodotus and Thucydides.

Career

Carolyn Dewald was educated at Swarthmore College, where she took a BA in 1968. She then read for a PhD in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1975;^[2] her thesis title was 'Taxis: the organization of Thucydides' History, Books ii-viii'.^[3] She taught at Stanford (1975-1977) and the University of Southern California (1977-2003), where she also spent a period as departmental chair of classics.^[4] During this time she also spent a period at Vassar College as Blegen Visiting Distinguished Professor (2001-2002).^[5] She then became Professor of History and Classics at Bard College,^[6] where she directed the Classical Studies programme.^[7] In Michaelmas term of 2013 she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she worked alongside Rosaria Munson on writing a commentary of Herodotus Book I.^[8]

Selected publications

• 1998 (ed., with translation by Robin Waterfield). Herodotus: The Histories. Oxford University Press. .
• 2005. Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. University of California Press.
• 2006 (ed., with John Marincola). The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Cambridge University Press.
• 2012. 'Myth and legend in Herodotus' first book'. In Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker (eds.), Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus. Oxford University Press. . pp. 59–85.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bard College Classical Studies Faculty. classicalstudies.bard.edu. 2019-03-22.
2. Web site: Bard College Classical Studies Faculty. classicalstudies.bard.edu. 2019-03-22.
3. Greenwood. Emily. December 2007. Review: Carolyn Dewald, Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 14. 623–627. JSTOR.
4. Web site: USC News: Hooked on Classics. 31 July 2001. 22 March 2019. 30 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190330043953/https://news.usc.edu/25581/Hooked-on-Classics/. dead.
5. Web site: Classics - Vassar College Catalogue - Vassar College. catalogarchive.vassar.edu. 2019-03-22.
6. Book: The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Dewald. Carolyn. Marincola. John. Cambridge University Press. 2006. 978-0-521-83001-0. Cambridge. ix.
7. Book: Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus. Baragwanath. Emily. de Bakker. Mathieu. Oxford University Press. 2012. ix.
8. 2014. Report of the governing body: visiting fellows. All Souls College Annual Report and Financial Statements (Year Ending July 2014). 22.