Johanna Hanink | |
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Born | 1982 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Cambridge University (PhD) UC Berkeley (MA) University of Michigan (BA) |
Thesis | (2011) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Institutions | Brown University |
Website | https://twitter.com/johannahan |
Johanna Hanink is Professor of Classics at Brown University. She specialises in ancient Greek theater and performance and the cultural life and afterlife of ancient Athens. [1] Hanink also serves as a contributor to Aeon Magazine,the Chronicle for Higher Education,and Eidolon. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Hanink was born in 1982 in Ashford,Connecticut. [6] [7] Hanink received her BA in Classics at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor in 2003 and a Gates Scholarship in 2006,followed by an MA in Latin at the University of California,Berkeley. [8] She achieved her PhD in Classics in 2011 at Queens' College,Cambridge. [9]
Hanink's work focuses on Greek drama,and particularly Greek tragedy. [10] In addition,Hanink is interested in Classical reception studies and especially the role Greek and Roman antiquity plays in modern political movements. [11] Her 2017 book,The Classical Debt,examines the symbolic debt of Western civilization to Greece in light of the Greek financial crisis. Hanink also writes on issues of gender in academia. [12]