Jinyu Liu
Academic background
Alma materNanjing University; Columbia University
Thesis (2004)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics; Roman History
Institutions

Jinyu Liu (Chinese: 刘津瑜; born 1972) is the acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at the Department of History of Emory University. She was a professor of classics at DePauw University, and was a distinguished guest professor at Shanghai Normal University. She is an expert in Roman history, social history, translation, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China, and Latin epigraphy.

Early life and education

Liu was born and raised in China.[1] She received her BA in 1993 and her MA in 1996 from Nanjing University where she studied Greek and Roman history, and Chinese literature and history.[1] She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2004. Her thesis was entitled Occupation, Social Organization, and Public Service in the collegia centonariorum.[2]

Career

Liu began employment at DePauw University in 2004 as assistant professor. She moved to Emory University in 2023 as the acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History.[3]

Liu holds a distinguished guest professorship at Shanghai Normal University (2014–).[4] Liu was a keynote speaker at the 2020 annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians.[5] She delivered the Clack Lecture at the 2020 annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.[6]

Books

  • Collegia Centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West (Leiden: Brill, 2009), ISBN 9789004177741[7]
  • A Research Guide to the Study of Roman History (in Chinese) (Beijing: Peking University Press, 1st ed, 2014; 2nd ed, 2021) (review, in Chinese[8])
  • New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (2 volumes), (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2021) ISBN 9787301321737 and ISBN 9787301322093
  • (ed. with Thomas J. Sienkewicz) Ovid in China. Reception, Translation, and Comparison (Leiden: Brill, 2022) ISBN 9789004467279

References

  1. 1 2 "Jinyu Liu". Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. New York University. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  2. ↑ Liu, Jinyu (2004). Occupation, social organization, and public service in the collegia centonariorum (PhD thesis). Columbia University.
  3. ↑ "Jinyu Liu (faculty profile page)". Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  4. ↑ "School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University".
  5. ↑ "Association of Ancient Historians 2020". Association of Ancient Historians. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  6. ↑ "CFP: CAAS 2020 Annual Meeting". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  7. ↑ Reviews of Collegia Centonariorum: Maurizio Buora (2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, ; Robert Duthoy (2011), Latomus, JSTOR 41547090; Renate Lefer (2012), Historische Zeitschrift, doi:10.1524/hzhz.2012.0579; Georges Raepsaet (2011), L'Antiquité Classique, JSTOR antiqclassi.80.538; Dorothea Rohde (2011), Sehepunkte, ; Rhodora G. Vennarucci (2012), The Classical Review, JSTOR 23271011
  8. ↑ Zhang Zhi (September 21, 2014). "读《罗马史研究入门》". Southern Metropolis Daily. Retrieved February 8, 2021.

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