Joy Connolly

Connolly was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and now is a member of the school's board of trustees.[4]

Connolly received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, 1991. In 1997, she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.[5]

In 1997, she joined the classics faculty as assistant professor of classics at the University of Washington in Seattle.[6] In 2000, she was hired by the classics department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she taught both classics and political science classes.[6] In 2004, she joined the faculty of New York University in Manhattan, where she was subsequently promoted to associate professor in 2007 and professor in 2014.[6] In 2016, she was named provost, senior vice president, and distinguished professor of classics at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan.[6]

Connolly has published two monographs on Roman rhetoric and politics. The first, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome,[7] was published in 2007 by Princeton University Press; the second, The Life of Roman Republicanism,[8] also published by Princeton and appeared in 2014.

She has published articles in The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation,[9] The Women's Review of Books, and The New York Times Book Review.[10]

Connolly has served on the board of directors of the Society of Classical Studies[11] and is currently a member of the Advanced Seminar in Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies sponsored by Venice International University.[12]