We are delighted to congratulate Dr. Hanna Gołąb *17 on her appointment as Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

A cultural historian of ancient Greece with broad interests in literature, ritual, performative arts, epigraphy, and cultural exchanges in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, Dr. Gołąb has served on the faculty of Columbia University since 2022. After graduating from Princeton, she previously enjoyed postdoctoral fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Originally from Poland, where she completed her masters studies at the University of Warsaw, Gołąb received her doctorate in late 2017 for her dissertation “Postclassical Choral Performances,” advised by Prof. Andrew Ford. She has since expanded her research into her first monograph, Songs and Stones: The Post-classical Greek Chorus and the Power of Placemaking (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

Gołąb joins a distinguished roster of Princeton Classics graduate alumni hired into faculty positions in the last year, including Jermaine Bryant, Marco Santini, Cait Mongrain, and Tom Davies.