Ellen E. Perry
Ellen Eva Perry is an American classicist and classical archaeologist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Early life and education
Perry is a native of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, earning a B.A. in 1987 with a major in Greek and a minor in Latin. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan she received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology. Her 1995 dissertation was entitled "Artistic Imitation and the Roman Patron with a Study of Imitation in the Ideal Sculptures of Herodes Atticus".Academic career
From 1995 to 1997 Perry was an assistant professor at the University of Evansville in Indiana. In 1997 she joined the faculty at the College of the Holy Cross, where she received tenure in 2004 and full professorship in 2017. From 2021 to 2025 she was the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities, and from 2019 to 2023 she served as the director of the Holy Cross College Honors Program.Perry is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 2010–2011 she was the president of the Classical Association of New England and from 2014 to 2020 she served as the chair of the Program Committee for the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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