Hendrik Dey
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Hendrik Dey | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Middlebury College Durham University University of Michigan |
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| Institutions | Hunter College |
Hendrik William Dey (born 1976) is an American classicist and archaeologist. He is a professor of art and art history at Hunter College.
Dey graduated cum laude in classics from Middlebury College in 1999.[1] He received a Master of Arts from Durham University in 2000, and completed his Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology at the University of Michigan in 2006.[1]
From 2005 to 2007 he was a Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Irene Rosenzweig Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and during this time served as a supervisor at Villa Magna in Anagni, as well as a divemaster and supervisor at the underwater excavation of Caesarea Maritima in Israel.[2][1]
Career and research
Dey served as Adjunct Professor at the American University of Rome from 2007 to 2008 and then as a visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. In 2010, he joined the faculty of Hunter College as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to full Professor in 2016.[1]
His research focuses on the urbanism and architecture of the Mediterranean between the Late Antiquity period and the Middle Ages.[3] He is also interested in the evolution of monasticism.[3] In 2025, his book The Making of Medieval Rome won the Premio Daria Borghese award for the best book on Rome written by a non-Italian.[4] It was written to build on an earlier work, Rome: Profile of a City, 312–1308, by Richard Krautheimer.[5][6]
