Hendrik Dey
Hendrik William Dey is an American classicist and archaeologist. He is a professor of art and art history at Hunter College.
Early life and education
Dey graduated cum laude in classics from Middlebury College in 1999. 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.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.
Career and research
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.His research focuses on the urbanism and architecture of the Mediterranean between the Late Antiquity period and the Middle Ages. He is also interested in the evolution of monasticism. 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. It was written to build on an earlier work, Rome: Profile of a City, 312–1308, by Richard Krautheimer.