Emily Baragwanath received her B.A. (1999) in Ancient History and English and M.A. (2001) in Ancient History from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, before taking up a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, University of Oxford, U.K. She gained her doctorate in Classics from Oxford (2005) and then continued work as a postdoctoral fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, before her arrival in Chapel Hill in summer 2007. She has since pursued her research at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. (2009-2010) and as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2013-14). In 2020-21 she was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She is currently serving as Director of the Associate Professor Program at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (a three-year term, 2024-2027).