Deborah Kamen
Department of Classics
Office: 20-22E, 650-724-7448
dkamen@stanford.edu

Research Interests: Greek cultural and social history; Greek language and literature; Greek and Roman slavery; gender and sexuality in the ancient world.

Deborah Kamen received a B.A. in Classical Languages at Bryn Mawr, an M.St. in Greek History at Oxford, and an M.A. in Greek and a Ph.D. in Classics at Berkeley.  Her dissertation, "Conceptualizing Manumission in Ancient Greece," examines how slaves in the ancient Greek world were freed and how this process of status change was understood. Her publications include Isaeus' Orations 2 and 6 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries 2000) and "The Life Cycle in Archaic Greece"  in H. Alan Shapiro, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge forthcoming).

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