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Shelley Haley
Haley in 2019
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materSyracuse University
University of Michigan
ThesisThe Role of Amicitia in the Life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Academic work
DisciplineClassicist
Sub-disciplineBlack feminist and critical race approaches
InstitutionsHamilton College, New York

Shelley P. Haley is the Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and (in 2021) President of the Society for Classical Studies. She is an expert in applying Black feminist and critical race approaches to the study and teaching of Classics.

Education

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Haley graduated with a BA from Syracuse University in 1972.[1] She was awarded a Danforth fellowship for graduate study[2] and completed her MA (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) at the University of Michigan. Her PhD thesis was titled The Role of Amicitia in the Life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.[3][4]

Career

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After graduating, she taught at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) from 1977 until 1978, and subsequently Howard University (Washington, D.C.) from 1979 to 1985.[2] She was appointed to the faculty at Hamilton College in 1989.[4]

She has also held appointments at Washington University in St. Louis ('Distinguished Visiting Scholar', 2002);[5] and Hobart and William Smith Colleges ('Melvin Hill Visiting Scholar-in-Residence', 2013).[6]

Haley employs Black feminist and critical race approaches to Classics,[7][8] and has worked on a wide range of topics including gender in the ancient world;[9] Latin, Greek, and comparative literature;[10][11][12] race in classical pedagogy;[13] and the role of African-American women (in particular Fanny Jackson Coppin) in Classics.[14] She has described the difficulties of her early career and the process by which she became interested in race in the classical world through teaching students about Cleopatra and researching 19th-century African-American classicists.[2]

Haley participated in the Oxford Round Table in 2003;[15] she has served a four-year term as chief reader for the AP Latin Exam, and has chaired the AP Latin Exam Development Committee.[15]

Haley has also appeared as an expert on Roman History and Cleopatra in the media including TLC's Rome: Power and Glory (1999),[16] Timewatch's In Search of Cleopatra,[17] and Netflix's African Queens season 2 episode on Cleopatra.[18] Haley's assertion in the documentary that her grandmother told her that Cleopatra was black was criticized, though she also stated that "We don't know her exact racial heritage."[19][20]

Haley was a founding member of The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Culture, and Society;[21] the Institute for Global African Studies (IGAS);[4] and the Multiculturalism, Race, and Ethnicity in Classics Consortium (MRECC). In September 2019, Haley was elected President of the Society for Classical Studies for 2021, making her the Society's first African-American President.[22][23][24]

Distinctions and awards

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Haley has been awarded several distinctions for her excellence in teaching and research. These include:

In 2020, The Haley Classical Journal was founded in her honor.[27][28]

Selected publications and lectures

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Haley has published and presented widely on Cleopatra, Black Feminist Pedagogy, and the impact of a classical education on African-American women. Recent examples of her work include:

  • "When I Enter: Disrupting the White, Heteronormative Narrative of Librarianship". Co-authored with Caitlin Pollock. Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS, eds. Rose L. Chou & Anna Pho. Sacramento: Litwin Books and Library Juice Press, 2018.[29]
  • "Re-presenting Reality: Provincial Women As Tools of Roman Social Reproduction". Women's Classical Caucus Panel, "Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination". American Philological Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL., January 2–5, 2014.[30]
  • "Scientific Racism". Co-authored with Dr. Michele Paludi. Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, York, England: Springer Reference, December 2012.[31]
  • "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies". Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies, eds. Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, 4 Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2009: 27–50.[32][33]
  • "Lucian's 'Leaena and Clonarium': Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?". Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, eds. Nancy S. Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger, Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 2002: 286–303.[34][35]
  • "Fanny Jackson Coppin's Reminiscences of a School Life and Hints on Teaching". African American Women Writers Series, 1910–1940, Volume 8, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York: G. K. Hall/Macmillan 1995.[citation needed]
  • "Self-definition, community and resistance: Euripides' Medea and Toni Morrison's Beloved". Thamyris: mythmaking from past to present, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1995): 177–206.[36]
  • "Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering". Feminist Theory and the Classics, eds. by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz & Amy Richlin, New York & Oxford: Routledge, 1993.[37][38]
  • "Livy, passion, and cultural stereotypes". Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte (1990): 375–381.[39]
  • "The Five Wives of Pompey the Great". Greece and Rome 32, no. 1 (1985): 49–59.[40]
  • "Archias, Theophanes, and Cicero: The Politics of the Pro Archia". The Classical Bulletin 59, 1983: 1–4.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Catenaccio, Claire (2020-01-09). "Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with SCS President-Elect Shelley Haley: Part I". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. ^ a b c Catenaccio, Claire (2020-01-13). "Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with Shelley Haley: Part II". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  3. ^ "Ph.D. Alumni and Dissertations | U-M LSA Department of Classical Studies". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Shelley Haley – Faculty Directory – Hamilton College". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  5. ^ "Past Distinguished Visiting Scholars". Diversity & Inclusion. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  6. ^ "Shelley Haley at HWS as Melvin Hill Profess – Hobart and William Smith Colleges". www2.hws.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  7. ^ Shelley Haley, "Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering" in Feminist Theory and the Classics, eds. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz & Amy Richlin, New York & Oxford: Routledge, 1993.
  8. ^ Shelley Haley "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies," in Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (eds.), Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies, 4 Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2009: 27–50
  9. ^ Shelley Haley, "Gender in Ancient Egypt: A European or African Construction?" in Debating Complexity: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Chacmool Conference, the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, 1996.
  10. ^ Shelley Haley, "Lucian's 'Leaena and Clonarium': Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?" in Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, edited by Nancy S. Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger, Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 2002: 286–303.
  11. ^ Shelley Haley, "Self-definition, Community and Resistance: Euripides' Medea and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Thamyris: Mythmaking from Past to Present 2.2 (Autumn 1995): 177–206.
  12. ^ Shelley Haley, "Performing Race: A Critical Race Feminist Looks at Seneca 47." The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pa.: October 10–12, 2013.
  13. ^ Shelley Haley, "Black Athena in the Context of America" (appearing under the editorially imposed title "Class pedagogy begs race questions"),  American Classical League Newsletter, 16.1 (Fall 1993): 8–14.
  14. ^ Shelley Haley, Fanny Jackson Coppin's, Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints On Teaching, Volume 8 of the African American Women Writers Series, 1910–1940 (general editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,) New York: G. K. Hall/ Macmillan 1995.
  15. ^ a b c "Faculty Members Receive Teaching Awards at Class & Charter Day". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  16. ^ "Greatness of Rome was staggering; TV: The Learning Channel presents a miniseries on the Roman Empire at its height; Radio and Television – Baltimore Sun". 2020-05-20. Archived from the original on 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  17. ^ "Timewatch" In Search of Cleopatra (TV Episode 1997) – IMDb, retrieved 2020-05-20
  18. ^ Nally, Gwen; Gilbert, Mary Hamil (2023-05-10). "Opinion | Fear of a Black Cleopatra". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  19. ^ Butler, Bethonie (May 12, 2023). "Was Cleopatra Black? We're asking the wrong question". Washington Post. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  20. ^ Crow, David (May 11, 2023). "What Netflix's Queen Cleopatra Gets Right and Wrong About the Real History". Den of Geek. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  21. ^ "Kirkland Project". academics.hamilton.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  22. ^ "2019 Election Results". Society for Classical Studies. 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  23. ^ "Board and Committees 2020". Society for Classical Studies. 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  24. ^ "Time for Anti-Racism: A Way Forward for America and Higher Education". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  25. ^ "2017 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level". Society for Classical Studies. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  26. ^ "Meritus / Merita Awards". www.aclclassics.org. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  27. ^ "The Haley Classical Journal, Volume I Issue I". Issuu. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  28. ^ "Love Classics? Do Great Work? Try 'The Haley Journal'". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  29. ^ "Pushing the Margins". Litwin Books & Library Juice Press. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  30. ^ "145th Annual Meeting". Society for Classical Studies. 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  31. ^ Paludi, Michele A.; Haley, Shelley (2014), "Scientific Racism", Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, Springer New York, pp. 1697–1700, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_394, ISBN 9781461455820
  32. ^ "Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity". Fortress Press. 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  33. ^ Setzer, Claudia (September 2011). "Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. Edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009. xiv + 319 pp. $26.00 cloth". Church History. 80 (3): 630–632. doi:10.1017/S0009640711000710. ISSN 1755-2613. S2CID 162690372.
  34. ^ Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin; Auanger, Lisa (2002-06-05). Among Women From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World Edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292771130.
  35. ^ Goff, Barbara (September 2002). "Review of: Among Women: from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  36. ^ Haley, Shelley P. (1995). "Self-definition, community and resistance : Euripides' Medea and Toni Morrison's Beloved". Thamyris. 2 (2): 177–206.
  37. ^ Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin; Richlin, Amy (2014-02-25). Feminist Theory and the Classics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-83186-2.
  38. ^ Brill, Susan B. (1994). "Feminist Theory and the Classics (review)". Philosophy and Literature. 18 (2): 400–401. doi:10.1353/phl.1994.0022. ISSN 1086-329X. S2CID 144233958.
  39. ^ Haley, S. P. (1990). "Livy, Passion, and Cultural Stereotypes". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 39 (3): 375–381. ISSN 0018-2311. JSTOR 4436158.
  40. ^ Haley, Shelley P. (1985). "The Five Wives of Pompey the Great". Greece and Rome. 32 (1): 49–59. doi:10.1017/S0017383500030138. ISSN 0017-3835. S2CID 154822339.
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