Brooke Holmes

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Brooke Holmes
Education Columbia University (BA)
Sorbonne University (MA)
Princeton University (PhD)
OccupationClassicist
EmployerPrinceton University

Brooke Holmes is an American classicist. She is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics at Princeton University. [1] She is the author of two books, and a co-editor of a third book about Heinrich von Staden. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. [2]

Holmes graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1998, received a D.E.A. from Sorbonne University in 2002, and a PhD from Princeton University in 2005. [3]

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References

  1. "Brooke Holmes". Princeton Classics Department. Princeton University. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  2. "Brooke Holmes". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  3. "Brooke Holmes" (PDF). Princeton University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved July 6, 2021.