Sherry Lee appointed Assistant Professor at Berkeley

Princeton Classics is thrilled to congratulate graduate student Sherry Lee on her appointment to an Assistant Professorship in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. This tenure-track appointment, beginning in 2025, will see Lee continue her career teaching and researching Greek literature and culture.

“Being at Princeton and experiencing Classics in such a unique intellectual context—one that is so connected and responsive to many other fields in the humanities—has fundamentally shaped my understanding of what it means to study these ancient texts and materials today,” Lee said. “I am deeply grateful to all of my teachers and mentors in the department who, throughout the years, have thoughtfully engaged with my work, taken my ideas seriously and challenged them, and generously shared their expertise and experience with me.”

Those ideas have culminated in Lee's forthcoming dissertation, advised by Barbara Graziosi, and entitled “Naming the Poet: Authorship in Hellenistic Epigram and Scholarship.” The project investigates the disparate models and concepts of authorship that emerge in the epigram poetry and ancient literary scholarship of the Hellenistic period.

Lee joins a remarkable cohort of recent Princeton Classics graduate alumni hired into faculty positions in the last two years, including Tyler Archer, Malina Buturović, Katie Dennis, Tom Davies, and Cait Mongrain. More details on her appointment will feature in the department's forthcoming annual newsletter.