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Peter White
Professor in the Department of Classics

Areas of Expertise:

  • Latin
  • Poetry: Greek and Roman
  • Rhetoric
  • Humanities
Media Contact:
Josh Schonwald
(773) 702-6421
jschonwa@uchicago.edu

Background:


Professor White is the author of many articles and reviews on Horace, Statius, Martial, the Historia Augusta, and the place of poets in Roman society, as well as Promised Verse: Poets and Poetry in the Society of Augustan Rome, for which he was honored with the American Philological Society's Goodman Award in 1995. He is presently writing a book on Cicero's letters. His teaching is focused on Roman comedy and satire and on Greek and Roman historiography. He was a 1990 recipient of the University's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

News clippings:
Longtime U. of C. professor of Latin
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
November 5, 2007

Press releases:

Nancy Pearce Helmbold, 1918-2007
November 2, 2007

Chronicle articles:
Faculty receive endowed chairs; first Neubauer fellows join the faculty
September 25, 2008

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