page_title: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rebecca Futo Kennedy / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
context_page_description: Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics, Women's and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Denison University; and the Director of the Denison Museum. Her research focuses on the political, social, and cultural history of Classical Athens, Athenian tragedy, ancient immigration, ancient theories of race and ethnicity, and the reception of those theories in modern race science.
context_section_description: Kennedy completed her BA in Classical Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and PhD at the Ohio State University in 2003, with a thesis entitled 'Athena/Athens on Stage: Athena in the Tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles'.
  Since 2009, she has taught at Denison University, first as an Assistant Professor (2009-2015) and now as an Associate Professor (2015–present); and previously held appointments at Union College (2008-9), the George Washington University (2005-8), and Howard University (2003-5). In 2019, Kennedy was teaching a wide range of courses on the ancient world, including both Greek and Latin language, Greek and Roman history and politics, ancient drama, and ancient identities.
  In 2016 Kennedy became the Director of the Denison Museum, a teaching museum which enhances the University's curriculum using cultural heritage materials and artworks.
caption: Rebecca Futo Kennedy at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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