Kristina Milnor

Milnor graduated with an undergraduate degree in Classical Studies at Wesleyan University in 1992. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1998. Her doctoral thesis was Suis omnia tuta locis: Women, Place, and Public Life in the Age of Augustus.{{Cite web |title=U-M Library Search |url=https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990149635860106381?library=All+libraries&query=kristina+milnor&filter.date_of_publication=1990-1999 |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=search.lib.umich.edu}} In 1997, she also obtained a Graduate Certificate from the University of Michigan in Women's Studies.{{cite web |title=Kristina Milnor {{!}} Classical Studies Graduate Program |url=https://classicalstudies.columbia.edu/faculty/kristina-milnor |website=classicalstudies.columbia.edu}}

Milnor joined the faculty at Barnard in 1998. Her first book, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life, was published by Oxford University Press in 2005.{{Cite book |last=Milnor |first=Kristina |url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235728.001.0001/acprof-9780199235728 |title=Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-923572-8 |series=Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235728.001.0001}} It won the Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association in 2006.{{Cite web |date=2010-06-06 |title=List of Previous Goodwin Award Winners |url=https://classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/list-previous-goodwin-award-winners |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=Society for Classical Studies}} Milnor received a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by The American Council of Learned Societies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, 2008–9.{{Cite web |date=2019-12-09 |title=Kristina Milnor - Scholars {{!}} Institute for Advanced Study |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/kristina-milnor |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.ias.edu |language=en}} Her second book, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.{{Cite book |last=Milnor |first=Kristina |url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684618.001.0001/acprof-9780199684618 |title=Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-968461-8 |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684618.001.0001}} This was credited with 'clarity, measured scholarship, and critical rigour' in reviews.{{Cite journal |last=Keegan |first=Peter |date=2015 |title=The 'graffiti experience' at Pompeii - KRISTINA MILNOR, GRAFFITI AND THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE IN ROMAN POMPEII (Oxford University Press 2014). Pp. vi+311, figs. 47. ISBN 9-780-19-968461-8. £70. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/abs/graffiti-experience-at-pompeii-kristina-milnor-graffiti-and-the-literary-landscape-in-roman-pompeii-oxford-university-press-2014-pp-vi311-figs-47-isbn-9780199684618-70/AC1526DC5F9DFDD3521CC62566A66A83 |journal=Journal of Roman Archaeology |language=en |volume=28 |pages=630–631 |doi=10.1017/S1047759415002846 |s2cid=192610402 |issn=1047-7594|url-access=subscription }}

Milnor has held significant fellowships at the American Academy in Rome ((2003 – 4) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2008 – 9). Although she was not credited as the historical consultant, in 2003, Milnor also worked with executive producers and directors of HBO's Rome, advising on the "reality" of ancient Roman life during the show's early production.{{cite book |last1=Cyrino |first1=Monica Silveira |title=Rome, season one: history makes television |date=2008 |publisher=Blackwell |location=London |isbn=978-1-405-16776-5}}{{rp|42-3}} She has also published Classical reception studies, including the use of material objects in films and TV based on the classics and Barbie's classical associations.{{cite journal |last1=Milnor |first1=Kristina |title=Making the Material Matter: Objects and Accuracy in Classics and Film |journal=Classical and Modern Literature |date=2008 |volume=28.1 |pages=5 - 20}}{{cite journal |last1=Milnor |first1=Kristina |title=Barbie® as Grecian GoddessTM and Egyptian QueenTM : Ancient Women’s History by Mattel® |journal=Helios |date=2005 |volume=32.2 |pages=215 - 33}}

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• Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2014)
• 'Women in Roman Society', The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World, ed. by Michael Peachin (Oxford University Press; 2011) 609-22
• 'Women, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, ed. by Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel (Oxford University Press, 2010) 815-26
• 'Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: The Case of Vergil's Aeneid', William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians, ed. by Andrew Feldherr, 'Women in Roman Historiograhy', (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
• 'Livy, Augustus, and the Landscape of the Law', Arethusa 40.1 (2007)

• SCS Paper Abstract: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/150/abstract/lgbtq-parenting-and-profession
• Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DOoZdUIAAAAJ&hl=en
• Staff Profile Page: https://barnard.edu/profiles/kristina-milnor

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