Carolyn Dewald

Carolyn Dewald was educated at Swarthmore College, where she took a BA in 1968. She then read for a PhD in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1975;^[2] her thesis title was 'Taxis: the organization of Thucydides' History, Books ii-viii'.^[3] She taught at Stanford (1975-1977) and the University of Southern California (1977-2003), where she also spent a period as departmental chair of classics.^[4] During this time she also spent a period at Vassar College as Blegen Visiting Distinguished Professor (2001-2002).^[5] She then became Professor of History and Classics at Bard College,^[6] where she directed the Classical Studies programme.^[7] In Michaelmas term of 2013 she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she worked alongside Rosaria Munson on writing a commentary of Herodotus Book I.^[8]

• 1998 (ed., with translation by Robin Waterfield). Herodotus: The Histories. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199535668.
• 2005. Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. University of California Press. ISBN 9786612357473
• 2006 (ed., with John Marincola). The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521830010
• 2012. 'Myth and legend in Herodotus' first book'. In Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker (eds.), Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199693979. pp. 59–85.