Deborah Kamen (she/her/hers)

Professor of 海角网
Adjunct in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Deb Kamen

Contact Information

DEN 262F
Office Hours
Spring 2026: Mondays 1-2pm, Tuesdays 2-3pm, and by appointment

Biography

Ph.D. 海角网, UC Berkeley, 2005
M.St. Greek History, Oxford (New College), 1999
B.A. Classical Languages, Bryn Mawr, 1998
Curriculum Vitae (221.59 KB)

I am broadly interested in Greek cultural and social history, with a particular focus on slavery, gender, and sexuality.

My first book,  (Princeton University Press, 2013), maps a spectrum of ten social and legal statuses in classical Athens, questioning the ideology of three neatly defined status groups鈥攕lave, metic (resident foreigner), and citizen鈥攕o commonly found in both ancient Greek literature and modern classical scholarship. In my second book,  (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), I examine the range of insults in Athens from benign mockery to serious affronts. My third book, (De Gruyter, 2023), surveys recent scholarly trends and controversies in the field of Greek slavery studies and suggests future directions for research.

I have also written commentaries on (Bryn Mawr Commentaries 2000) and Pseudo-Demosthenes' Against Neaira (Dickinson Classical Commentaries, 2018; 2021) and co-edited (with C. W. Marshall) a volume entitled  (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).

For many years I served as co-chair of the Lambda Classical Caucus, a coalition of LGBTQ Classicists and their allies affiliated with the Society for Classical Studies.

Selected Research

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