Eleanor Dickey (born 9 April 1967) is an American

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, and academic, who specialises in the history of the

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and Greek languages. Since 2013, she has been

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of Classics at the

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in England.

Early life and education

Dickey was born on 9 April 1967 in

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, United States. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, graduating with both

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(AB) and

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(MA) degrees in 1989. She then moved to England, and studied classics at

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, graduating with a

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(MPhil) degree in 1991. Dickey was awarded a Marshall Scholarship. She then undertook postgraduate research at

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under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies, and she completed her

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(DPhil) degree in 1994. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Greek forms of address: a linguistic analysis of selected prose authors".

Academic career

From 1995 to 1999, Dickey was an

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of classics at the

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in Canada. She then moved to

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in New York City, United States: she was an assistant professor from 1999 to 2005, and an associate professor from 2005 to 2007. She was a visiting academic at the

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in Princeton, New Jersey for the 1998/1999 academic year and at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC for the 2002/2003 academic year. Having returned to England, Dickey was an associate professor of classics at the

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between 2007 and 2013. In 2013, she was appointed

of Classics at the

. She was awarded a Marc Fitch Fund Small Research Grant by the

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in 2012, and she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2013 to 2015.

Personal life

In 2008, Dickey entered into a civil partnership with Philomen Probert. They have since been married.

Honours

In 2014, Dickey was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Also in 2014, she was elected as a Member of the

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Selected works

* * * * Dickey, Eleanor and Anna Chahoud, eds. (2010) ''Colloquial and Literary Latin'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 * * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickey, Eleanor 1967 births Living people American classical scholars American women classical scholars Linguists from the United States American women linguists American Latinists Scholars of Ancient Greek People from New Haven, Connecticut Bryn Mawr College alumni Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Academic staff of the University of Ottawa Columbia University faculty Academics of the University of Exeter Academics of the University of Reading Members of Academia Europaea American LGBTQ academics Fellows of the British Academy