Deborah Kamen
{{short description|American university teacher}}
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| alma_mater = Bryn Mawr College (BA), Oxford University (MSt), Berkeley (PhD)
| thesis_title = Conceptualizing manumission in ancient Greece
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Deborah Kamen is Chair and Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. Her research is on Greek cultural and social history, with a particular focus on ancient slavery.
Career
Deborah Kamen read for her BA in Classical Languages at Bryn Mawr College in 1998, where she began studying Greek after learning Latin in high school.{{cite web |last1=Gupta |first1=Interview by Ananya |title=Deborah Kamen, Associate Professor of Classics |url=https://oberlinreview.org/16315/arts/deborah-kamen-associate-professor-of-classics/ |website=The Oberlin Review}} This was followed by an MSt in Greek History at New College, Oxford University in 1999, and an MA in Greek at the University of California Berkeley in 2000.{{cite web |title=Deborah Kamen Department of Classics {{!}} University of Washington |url=https://classics.washington.edu/people/deborah-kamen |website=classics.washington.edu}} In 2005 she completed a PhD in Classics at Berkeley, with a thesis titled "Conceptualizing manumission in ancient Greece."{{cite book |last1=Kamen |first1=Deborah Esther |title=Conceptualizing manumission in ancient Greece |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945870525 |language=English |date=2005|oclc=945870525 }} From 2005-7 she was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University,{{cite web |title=Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities: 2005-2006 |url=https://shc.stanford.edu/people/mellon-fellowship-of-scholars-in-the-humanities/2005-2006 |website=Stanford Humanities |language=en |access-date=2022-02-22 |archive-date=2022-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303220900/https://shc.stanford.edu/people/mellon-fellowship-of-scholars-in-the-humanities/2005-2006 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities: 2006-2007 |url=https://shc.stanford.edu/people/mellon-fellowship-of-scholars-in-the-humanities/2006-2007 |website=Stanford Humanities |language=en |access-date=2022-02-22 |archive-date=2022-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302224121/https://shc.stanford.edu/people/mellon-fellowship-of-scholars-in-the-humanities/2006-2007 |url-status=dead }} before moving to the University of Washington in 2007 as an Assistant Professor in Classics.{{cite web |title=CV |url=https://classics.washington.edu/file/1311/download?token=cC8m7Syv}} She was promoted to Professor in 2020.{{cite web |title=CV |url=https://classics.washington.edu/file/1311/download?token=cC8m7Syv}} Between 2010 and 2019 she was one of the co-chairs of the Lambda Classical Caucus, "A Coalition of Queer Classicists and Allies."{{cite web |title=Lambda Classical Caucus |url=https://www.lambdacc.org/officers.html |website=www.lambdacc.org}}
Kamen has been the recipient of multiple awards for her research on Greek History. In 1998-9 she was awarded The Lionel Pearson Fellowship by the Society for Classical Studies.{{cite web |title= Lionel Pearson Fellowship Information|url=https://classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/lionel-pearson-fellowship-information-candidates-and-faculty}} In 2014 she was the Simon Visiting Professor in Ancient History at the University of Manchester.{{cite web |title=Manumission and Sexuality in Ancient Greece, and a Friendly Visitor to Manchester |url=https://clahresearch.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/manumission-and-sexuality-in-ancient-greece-and-a-friendly-visitor-to-manchester/ |website=cahaeresearch |language=en |date=24 November 2014}} In 2017 she and Sarah Levin-Richardson won the Barbara McManus Award for Best Article from the Women's Classical Caucus,{{cite web |title=Award & Prize Winners |url=https://www.wccclassics.org/award-winners |website=THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)}} for their article "Lusty Ladies in the Roman Imaginary."{{cite book |last1=Halperin |first1=David M. |title=Ancient Sex: New Essays |date=2015 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctv3s8shv |jstor=j.ctv3s8shv |isbn=978-0-8142-1283-7 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3s8shv}}
Research
Kamen works primarily on the social and cultural history of Ancient Greece, with particular attention to slavery. Her first book Status in Classical Athens (2013) was described as "indispensable reading for anyone interested in ancient Athenian society"{{cite journal |last1=Zelnick-Abramovitz |first1=Rachel |title=Review: Status in Classical Athens Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. |journal=Scripta Classica Israelica |date=2014 |volume=33 |pages=328–30 |url=https://scriptaclassica.org/index.php/sci/article/download/2667/2187}} and an "important contribution to scholarship."{{cite book |title=Sara Forsdyke (Michigan) quoted on the Amazon Listing|id={{ASIN|0691138133|country=uk}}}} She has also written a book on Insults in Classical Athens (2020){{cite book |last1=Kamen |first1=Deborah |title=Insults in Classical Athens |date=2020 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres |isbn=978-0-299-32800-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmvqDwAAQBAJ&q=deborah+kamen |language=en}} and co-edited the volume Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity (2021).{{cite book |last1=Kamen |first1=Deborah |last2=Marshall |first2=C. W. |title=Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity |date=29 June 2021 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres |isbn=978-0-299-33190-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BD8yEAAAQBAJ&q=slavery+sexuality+athens |language=en}}
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