Janet Marion Martin

Martin was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and raised in Middletown, Ohio,{{Cite news |date=1961-06-22 |title=Summa Cum Laude |pages=8 |work=The Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-summa-cum-laude/136243481/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |via=Newspapers.com}} the daughter of Bruce Whittington Martin and Edna Poyas Hall Martin. Her father was an engineer and executive in the paper industry.{{Cite web |last=Saxon |first=Jamie |title=Janet Martin, medieval Latinist and 'gracious, generous mentor,' dies at 84 |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/10/23/janet-martin-medieval-latinist-and-gracious-generous-mentor-dies-84 |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Princeton University |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1960-11-25 |title=Ohio Family Buys in Larchmont |pages=21 |work=The Standard-Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-star-ohio-family-buys-in-la/136279254/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Radcliffe College with a bachelor's degree in 1961,Martin, Janet Marion. "The Oxford Franciscans and Simon de Montfort: An Examination of the Influence of the Ideas of the Oxford Franciscans Upon the Baronial Movement of 1258 to 1267." Senior thesis, Radcliffe College, 1961. and earned a master's degree in classical studies at the University of Michigan in 1963.{{Cite news |date=1962-06-04 |title=Miss Martin Awarded Research Fellowship |pages=9 |work=The Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-miss-martin-awarded-rese/136243352/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |via=Newspapers.com}} She completed doctoral studies in medieval Latin at Harvard University in 1968, with a dissertation titled "John of Salisbury and the Classics."Martin, Janet Marion. "John of Salisbury and the Classics." PhD diss., Harvard University Archives, 1968.

Martin taught at Harvard{{Cite web |last=Sarfaty |first=Mona |date=February 6, 1970 |title=Women Faculty Ask Study of Their Status |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1970/2/6/women-faculty-ask-study-of-their/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=The Harvard Crimson}} and at the American Academy in Rome as a young woman, but spent most of her career at Princeton University. She joined the Princeton faculty in 1973, and became the first woman to gain tenure in the classics department there. She was chair of Princeton's women's studies committee, but resigned when she was disappointed in Princeton's minimal commitment to the program.{{Cite news |last=Remnick |first=David |date=December 2, 1979 |title=Sexism in the Ivy League |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/12/02/sexism-in-the-ivy-league/ |access-date=December 4, 2023}} She retired with emerita status in 2010.{{Cite web |date=2016-01-21 |title=Emeritus status for 16 on faculty |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/emeritus-status-16-faculty |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Princeton Alumni Weekly |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Hallett |first=Judith P. |author-link=Judith P. Hallett |date=2011 |title=Janet Marion Martin |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/classical_world/v104/104.4.hallett01.html |journal=Classical World |language=en |volume=104 |issue=4 |pages=501 |doi=10.1353/clw.2011.0085 |issn=1558-9234|url-access=subscription }}

Martin frequently taught on women's texts in classical and medieval literature, and was an early and longtime member of the Women's Classical Caucus.{{Cite web |title=Steering Committee |url=https://www.wccclassics.org/steering-committee |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=The Women's Classical Caucus (WCC) |language=en-US}} In 1996, she co-organized a conference on "Feminism and Classics: Framing the Research Agenda". She was president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States in 2013–2014,{{Cite web |title=Search for CAAS Webmaster |url=https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/search-caas-webmaster |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Society for Classical Studies}} and an active member of the Society for Classical Studies.

• "John of Salisbury's Manuscripts of Frontinus and of Gellius" (1977){{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Janet |date=1977-01-01 |title=John of Salisbury's Manuscripts of Frontinus and of Gellius |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/750989 |journal=Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes |language=en |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=1–26 |doi=10.2307/750989 |jstor=750989 |issn=0075-4390|url-access=subscription }}
• "Uses of Tradition: Gellius, Petronius, and John of Salisbury" (1979){{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Janet |date=January 1979 |title=Uses of Tradition: Gellius, Petronius, and John of Salisbury |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301521 |journal=Viator |language=en |volume=10 |pages=57–76 |doi=10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301521 |issn=0083-5897|url-access=subscription }}
• "Clare College MS. 26 and the Circulation of Aulus Gellius 1-7 in Medieval England and France" (1980, with P. K. Marshall and Richard H. Rouse){{Cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=P. K. |last2=Martin |first2=Janet |last3=Rouse |first3=Richard H. |date=January 1980 |title=Clare College MS. 26 and the Circulation of Aulus Gellius 1-7 in Medieval England and France |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.MS.2.306262 |journal=Mediaeval Studies |language=en |volume=42 |pages=353–394 |doi=10.1484/J.MS.2.306262 |issn=0076-5872|url-access=subscription }}
• "John of Salisbury as classical scholar" (1984){{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Janet |date=January 1984 |title=John of Salisbury as classical scholar |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-church-history-subsidia/article/abs/john-of-salisbury-as-classical-scholar/215965BCA025AB9CF20FD5BBC23D3CD0 |journal=Studies in Church History Subsidia |language=en |volume=3 |pages=179–201 |doi=10.1017/S0143045900003306 |issn=0143-0459|url-access=subscription }}
• "Cicero's Jokes at the Court of Henry II of England: Roman Humor and the Princely Ideal" (1990){{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Janet Marion |date=1990-06-01 |title=Cicero's Jokes at the Court of Henry II of England Roman Humor and the Princely Ideal |url=https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-51-2-144 |journal=Modern Language Quarterly |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=144–166 |doi=10.1215/00267929-51-2-144 |issn=0026-7929|url-access=subscription }}

Martin died in 2023, at the age of 84, at her home in Princeton, New Jersey.{{Cite web |title=Princeton Classics mourns the loss of Janet Martin |url=https://classics.princeton.edu/department/news/princeton-classics-mourns-loss-janet-martin |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Princeton Classics |language=en}}

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