Jackie Murray
PhD
Research Interests
Ancient Greek Language and Literature, especially of the Hellenistic Poetry, its reception of Archaic and Classical poetry and its influence on Latin poetry and Greek literature of the Imperial period; Race studies and the Classics, Black Classicisms, and the reception of Greek and Roman Classics in African American and Afro-Caribbean literature.
Education
- PhD, Classics, Department of Classics, University of Washington, 2005
- MA, Classics, University of Western (formerly University of Western Ontario)
- BA, Latin and Classical Studies, University of Guelph
Selected Publications
2026 Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Poetics of Controversy. TCSV 210. Berlin:
DeGruyter/Brill. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112228098
2026 The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, co-editors: Rosa Andújar and Elena
Giusti. Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009295116
2026 “Book 13” in Joel Christensen, ed. Oxford Critical Guide to the Odyssey.
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191926846.001.0001
“Classics and Race: An Introduction”, in Rosa Andújar, Elena Giusti, and Jackie Murray, eds. Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race. Cambridge University Press. [co-written with Andújar and Giusti] https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009295116
“Race, Gender, and Genocide in Apollonius’ Argonautica”, in Rosa Andújar, Elena Giusti, and Jackie Murray, eds. Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009295116
Review of Racialized commodities: long-distance trade, mobility, and the making of race in ancient Greece, c. 700–300 BCE. Mediterranean Historical Review https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2026.2654310
Review of Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia, Classics and Race: A Historical Reader. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, (https://rdcu.be/fkmHs) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-026-00758-z
Offices in Professional Organizations
- 2020-present Co-President, Eos: Africana Receptions Of Ancient Greece & Rome
- 2022-present Women’s Classical Caucus, Executive Committee Member
Honors and Awards
- 2022 Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin
- 2021
- DAAD Teaching Fellowship for Black Classicism Project [with Prof. AnjaBettenworth, University of Cologne]
- College of Arts & Sciences Award for the Promotion of Diversity,
- Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities Mini-Grant for Black Classicisms Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies Grant for Black Classicisms
- 2020 Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies
- 2018 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Hellenic Studies
- 2017 Margo Tytus Fellowship for Visiting Scholars, University of Cincinnati
- 2011-2012 Andrew Heiskell/NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
- 2010 NEH Fellowship: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, University of Virginia
- 2010 Mellon Faculty Seminar– Tang Museum
- 2006-2007 University of Venice Advanced Seminar in Ancient Mediterranean Literature
- 2006 NEH Fellowship: UCLA Summer Institute on Models of Ancient Rome