Jinyu Liu

Jinyu Liu (Chinese: 刘津瑜; born 1972) is the acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at the Department of History of Emory University. She was a professor of classics at DePauw University, and was a distinguished guest professor at Shanghai Normal University. She is an expert in Roman history, social history, translation, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China, and Latin epigraphy.

Jinyu Liu
Academic background
Alma materNanjing University; Columbia University
Thesis (2004)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics; Roman History
Institutions

Early life and education

Liu was born and raised in China.[1] She received her BA in 1993 and her MA in 1996 from Nanjing University where she studied Greek and Roman history, and Chinese literature and history.[1] She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2004. Her thesis was entitled Occupation, Social Organization, and Public Service in the collegia centonariorum.[2]

Career

Liu began employment at DePauw University in 2004 as assistant professor. She moved to Emory University in 2023 as the acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History.[3]

Liu holds a distinguished guest professorship at Shanghai Normal University (2014–).[4] Liu was a keynote speaker at the 2020 annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians.[5] She delivered the Clack Lecture at the 2020 annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.[6]

Books
  • Collegia Centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West (Leiden: Brill, 2009), ISBN 9789004177741[7]
  • A Research Guide to the Study of Roman History (in Chinese) (Beijing: Peking University Press, 1st ed, 2014; 2nd ed, 2021) (review, in Chinese[8])
  • New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (2 volumes), (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2021) ISBN 9787301321737 and ISBN 9787301322093
  • (ed. with Thomas J. Sienkewicz) Ovid in China. Reception, Translation, and Comparison (Leiden: Brill, 2022) ISBN 9789004467279

References
  1. "Jinyu Liu". Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. New York University. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  2. Liu, Jinyu (2004). Occupation, social organization, and public service in the collegia centonariorum (PhD thesis). Columbia University.
  3. "Jinyu Liu (faculty profile page)". Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  4. "School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University".
  5. "Association of Ancient Historians 2020". Association of Ancient Historians. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  6. "CFP: CAAS 2020 Annual Meeting". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  7. Reviews of Collegia Centonariorum: Maurizio Buora (2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, ; Robert Duthoy (2011), Latomus, JSTOR 41547090; Renate Lefer (2012), Historische Zeitschrift, doi:10.1524/hzhz.2012.0579; Georges Raepsaet (2011), L'Antiquité Classique, JSTOR antiqclassi.80.538; Dorothea Rohde (2011), Sehepunkte, ; Rhodora G. Vennarucci (2012), The Classical Review, JSTOR 23271011
  8. Zhang Zhi (September 21, 2014). "读《罗马史研究入门》". Southern Metropolis Daily. Retrieved February 8, 2021.

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