Joy Connolly is President of the American Council of Learned Societies. She previously served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and as professor of classics and dean of humanities at New York University. A scholar of ancient Roman political thought and literature, she is the author of two books, The State of Speech and The Life of Roman Republicanism, and more than seventy articles, book reviews, and essays. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Independent, the Village Voice, the Times Literary Supplement, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. Her current book project, tentatively entitled “GreeceandRome,” advocates for an transregional, transcultural approach to the study of ancient societies.
