Hendrik Dey | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Middlebury College Durham University University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Hunter College |
Hendrik William Dey (born 1976) is an American classicist and archaeologist. He is a professor of art and art history at Hunter College.
Dey graduated cum laude in classics from Middlebury College in 1999. [1] He received a Master of Arts from Durham University in 2000,and completed his Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology at the University of Michigan in 2006. [1]
From 2005 to 2007 he was a Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Irene Rosenzweig Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome,and during this time served as a supervisor at Villa Magna in Anagni,as well as a divemaster and supervisor at the underwater excavation of Caesarea Maritima in Israel. [2] [1]
Dey served as Adjunct Professor at the American University of Rome from 2007 to 2008 and then as a visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. In 2010,he joined the faculty of Hunter College as an Assistant Professor,and was promoted to full Professor in 2016. [1]
His research focuses on the urbanism and architecture of the Mediterranean between the Late Antiquity period and the Middle Ages. [3] He is also interested in the evolution of monasticism. [3] In 2025,his book The Making of Medieval Rome won the Premio Daria Borghese award for the best book on Rome written by a non-Italian. [4] It was written to build on an earlier work,Rome:Profile of a City,312–1308,by Richard Krautheimer. [5] [6]