Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics, Women's and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Denison University, and the Director of the Denison Museum. Her research focuses on the political, social, and cultural history of Classical Athens, Athenian tragedy, ancient immigration, ancient theories of race and ethnicity, and the reception of those theories in modern race science.

Career

Kennedy completed her BA in Classical Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and PhD at the Ohio State University in 2003, with a thesis entitled Athena/Athens on Stage: Athena in the Tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Since 2009, she has taught at Denison University, first as an Assistant Professor (2009-2015) and now as an Associate Professor (2015–present). Previously she held appointments at Union College (2008-9), George Washington University (2005-8), and Howard University (2003-5). In 2019, Kennedy was teaching a wide range of courses on the ancient world, including both Greek and Latin language, Greek and Roman history and politics, ancient drama, and ancient identities.

In 2016, Kennedy became the Director of the Denison Museum, a teaching museum which enhances the university's curriculum using cultural heritage materials and artworks.

Research publications

Kennedy is the author of two monographs. The first is '<nowiki/>Athena's Justice: Athena, Athens, and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy'. The second is '<nowiki/>Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City.

• <nowiki/>'Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Hackett, 2013), co-edited with C.S. Roy and M.L. Goldman.
• <nowiki/>'The Routledge Handbook to Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (Routledge, 2016), co-edited with Molly Jones-Lewis.
• <nowiki/>'Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (Brill, 2017).
• <nowiki/>'Ancient Greek and Roman Women: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Hackett, in progress), co-editor, co-author, and translator with M.L. Goldman.