Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
- Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Virginia
- John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia
Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne is the John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy and assistant professor of Classics. She is a scholar of Greek literature and cultural history and a member of the first faculty cohort for the University of Virginia’s Nau Lab for Democracy Studies. Her research centers on the texts and practices of ancient education, and how institutions of schooling in antiquity shaped the legacy of classical Greece to the present. She the co-editor of the volume Documentality: New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature and has authored several articles on rhetorical education in the Greco-Roman world. Her current research projects, which have been supported by a National Endowment of the Humanities stipend, examine how ancient educators navigated questions of fact and fiction in ancient literature and how the cultural memory of democratic Athens was taught in schools of the Roman Empire.
Events
Democracy Across Cultures
Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Emily Burrill, Christopher Carter, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Kristina Richardson, Jhanisse Vaca-Daza
How are practices and concepts related to democracy articulated in different cultural contexts? Faculty members gather to discuss three specific examples: the classical ancient world, indigenous Latin America, and Islamic societies.