Grant Parker
Grant Parker (born 16 March 1967) is a South African-born Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University in the United States. Parker’s principal research interests are Imperial Latin Literature, the portrayal of Egypt and India in the Roman Empire and Classical Reception in South Africa.[1]
Life
Grant Parker studied at Cape Town (BA in English and Latin in 1988 and MA in Latin, 1991) and Princeton (PhD, Classical Philology, 1999). After graduating from Princeton, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (1999–2001) before being appointed Assistant Professor of Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at Duke University in 2001. In 2006 he moved to Stanford University and was appointed Associate Professor of Classics in 2009.
Parker has written two academic monographs, co-edited two volumes, produced over twenty articles in academic journals and encyclopedias and is a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. His first book, The Agony of Asar was a translation, introduction and commentary on an eighteenth-century defence of slavery written by a former slave, Jacobus Capitein.[2] His second, The Making of Roman India, examined attitudes towards India in the Roman Empire and was published in 2006.[3] He is also the co-editor of a further volume on Rome and India, Ancient India in its Wider World,[4] and Mediterranean Passages: readings from Dido to Derrida, a reader of selected passages from antiquity to the modern world which concern the Mediterranean’s role as a meeting point between culture.[5] Parker’s current research projects include a sourcebook on Roman travel writing, a monograph on Roman appropriations of Egyptian obelisks and a study of the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in South Africa,
Works
The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747. Translated with introduction and commentary. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001 ISBN 9781558761261
The Making of Roman India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0521858342
Ancient India in its Wider World Ann Arbor: Center for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 2008 (co-editor with Carla Sinopoli) ISBN 978-0-89148-092-1
Mediterranean Passages: readings from Dido to Derrida Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008 (co-editor with Miriam Cooke and Erdag Göknar) ISBN 978-0807858714