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Grant Parker
Associate Professor of Classics, of African and African American Studies and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
Department:
Classics
African and African American Studies
Grant Parker joined Stanford in 2006, having taught previously at Duke University. He has long researched and taught Latin literature and Roman imperial culture, e.g. The Making of Roman India (2008). Other publications include The Agony of Asar: a former slave's defence of slavery, 1742 (2001) and, as editor, South Africa, Greece, Rome: classical confrontations (2017). Since 2025 he has also taught African Studies in the newly constituted Department of African and African American Studies. As a comparative global humanist, his interest in monuments, collective memory and their media is expressed by several articles on obelisks and statues. Another ongoing theme is enslavement and its aftermaths, ancient and modern. Current work engages monument-mindedness in Southern Africa as well as the global reception of Virgil's poetry. His many roles on campus have included the Stanford Archaeology Center, the Center for African Studies, and Residential Education.
Degrees / Education:
B.A., University of Cape Town, English and Latin (1987)
B.A. (Honours), University of Cape Town, Latin (1988)
M.A., University of Cape Town, Latin (1991)
Ph.D., Princeton University, Classical Philology (1999)