Ralph Hexter
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| name = Ralph J. Hexter
| image = Ralph Hexter (2012).jpg
| caption = Hexter at the Gala Event in 2012 celebrating 50 years of achievement at the UC Davis College of Engineering
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| title = Acting Chancellor University of California, Davis
| term_start = April 27, 2016
| term_end = February 23, 2017
| predecessor = Linda Katehi
| successor = Gary S. May
| order1 = 5th
| title1 = President of Hampshire College
| term_start1 = 2005
| term_end1 = 2010
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|8|25}}
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| predecessor1 = Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
| successor1 = Jonathan Lash
Marlene Gerber Fried (interim)
| nationality = American
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| spouse = {{marriage|Manfred Kollmeier|2007||end=}}
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|field = Classical studies
Classical literature
|thesis_title = Medieval school commentaries on ovid's "ars amatoria," "epistulae ex ponto," and "epistulae heroidum"
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|thesis_year = 1982
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| education = Harvard University (BA)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MA)
Yale University (MPhil, PhD)
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Ralph Jay Hexter (born 1952) is a distinguished professor of classics and comparative literature{{cite web |title=UC Davis Leadership |url=https://leadership.ucdavis.edu/people/ralph-hexter |website=UC Davis |date=2 July 2020 |access-date=23 February 2021}} at the University of California, Davis. Previously, he served as the fifth president of Hampshire College.[http://www.hampshire.edu/faculty/rhexter.htm Hampshire College biography][http://www.masscolleges.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=446&Itemid=259 Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727071346/http://www.masscolleges.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=446&Itemid=259 |date=2011-07-27 }}[http://classics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=44 Berkeley webpage]
Education
Hexter received an A.B. in English literature from Harvard College in 1974. He then studied in England, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in classics and modern languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1977 and 1982, respectively. He also earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Hexter subsequently taught in the classics department at Yale from 1981 to 1991.
Career
Hexter taught classics and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Yale University. He was also the Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Hexter assumed the Hampshire College presidency on August 1, 2005, a post he relinquished on December 31, 2010.
Hexter has been involved with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philological Association, and the National Conference for Community and Justice.
On August 2, 2010, Hexter announced his resignation as president of Hampshire.http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1271961&srvc=rss {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hampshire.edu/news/18727.htm |title=President Ralph Hexter announces his intent to transition from Hampshire College |website=www.hampshire.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806192348/http://www.hampshire.edu/news/18727.htm |archive-date=2010-08-06}} On August 20, Hampshire College announced that Marlene Gerber Fried would serve as acting president and that Hexter would be on sabbatical beginning on September 1.Hampshire College, [http://www.hampshire.edu/news/18902.htm Marlene Gerber Fried to be Acting Hampshire College President] 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
On November 22, 2010, it was announced that Ralph Hexter would be the next Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis, effective January 1, 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9689|title = News| date=3 March 2021 }} His faculty title is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.
Personal life
Hexter is openly gay.[http://chronicle.com/article/Openly-Gay-Presidents-Say/39358/ The Chronicle of Higher Education][http://www.insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/04/18/hexter Inside Higher Ed interview] He was among the founding members of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. Hexter married his longtime partner, Manfred Kollmeier, in 2007.[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/19/hexter A Gay President Says 'I Do']
Bibliography
- Equivocal Oaths and Ordeals in Medieval Literature, by Ralph J. Hexter, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
- Ovid and Medieval Schooling: Studies in Medieval School Commentaries on Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Epistulae Heroidum, by Ralph J. Hexter, Munich: Arbeo-Gesellschaft, 1986.
- Innovations of Antiquity, edited by Ralph Hexter and Daniel Selden, New York: Routledge, 1992.
- A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald, by Ralph J. Hexter, New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
- The Faith of Achates: Finding Aeneas' Other, by Ralph J. Hexter, Berkeley, CA: Doe Library, University of California, 1997.
- The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, edited by Ralph J. Hexter and David Townsend. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Texts Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages, edited by Ralph Hexter, Larua Pfuntner, and Justin Haynes. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 62. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2020.
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External links
- [http://provost.ucdavis.edu/people/hexter-biography.html Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter] via University of California, Davis
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