Ann Ellis Hanson is an American

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

who holds the position of senior research scholar and lecturer in the Department of Classics at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. Professor Hanson received a B.A. (1957) and an M.A. (1963) from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

, and a PhD (1971) from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

. Her teaching career included posts at

Fordham University Fordham University is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its origina ...

(1968-1975), the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

, the Intercollegiate Center in Rome, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1985-6), the University of Michigan, and the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. Her research contributions to classical studies lie in papyrology and in the study of ancient medicine, in both cases showing how sources outside the canon can provide new perspectives on the ancient Mediterranean.

Awards

* 1992

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

Works

"The Hippocratic ''Parthenos'' in Sickness and Health"
''Virginity revisited: configurations of the unpossessed body'', Editors Bonnie MacLachlan, Judith Fletcher, University of Toronto Press, 2007, *Roman Medicine, ''A Companion to the Roman Empire'' (2006), Editor David S. Potter, Blackwell Publishing, 2006
"The Widow Babatha and the Poor Orphan Boy"
''Law in the documents of the Judaean desert'', Editors Ranon Katzoff, David M. Schaps, BRILL, 2005,
'"Your mother nursed you with bile": anger in babies and small children'
''Ancient anger: perspectives from Homer to Galen'', Editors Susanna Morton Braund, Glenn W. Most, Cambridge University Press, 2003, *''On government and law in Roman Egypt: collected papers of Naphtali Lewis'', Authors

Naphtali Lewis Naphtali Lewis (14 December 1911 – 11 September 2005) was an American papyrologist who published extensively on subjects ranging from the ancient papyrus industry to government in Roman Egypt. He also wrote several social histories of Ptolem ...

, Editor Ann Ellis Hanson, Scholars Press, 1995,
"Continuity and Change: Three Case Studies in Hippocratic Gynecological Therapy and Theory"
''Women's history and ancient history'', Editor Sarah B. Pomeroy, UNC Press, 1991,
"Medical Writers' Woman"
''Before sexuality: the construction of erotic experience in the ancient Greek world'', Editors David M. Halperin,

John J. Winkler John Jack Winkler (11 August 1943 in St. Louis – 26 April 1990 in Stanford, California) was an American philologist and Benedictine monk. Winkler studied classical studies at Saint Louis University from 1960 to 1963 and then went to England, wh ...

, Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University Press, 1990, *''Collectanea papyrologica: texts published in honor of H.C. Youtie'', Volumes 1-2, Editor Ann Ellis Hanson, Habelt, 1976, *''Studies in the textual tradition and transmission of the gynecological treatises of the Hippocratic corpus'', University of Pennsylvania, 1971

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