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Christina Shuttleworth Kraus is the Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a PhD from Harvard University. Her research focuses on ancient historiography, Latin prose style, and classical commentaries, with specialties in Caesar, Livy, and Tacitus. She currently leads major interdisciplinary projects including The Last Historians of Rome (AHRC-funded) and Imperialism in Roman Historical Writing (DFF-funded). Kraus has held prior positions at NYU, University College London, and Oxford before joining Yale in 2004.
Her scholarly contributions emphasize the theoretical underpinnings of classical commentaries and their evolution from antiquity to modernity. Notable achievements include the 2009 Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College on Tacitus’ Agricola, and ongoing work on early modern commentaries of Ennius’ Annales. She co-founded the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern World (ARCHAIA), fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on classical antiquity.
Kraus’ recent publications explore digressive techniques in Caesar’s writings, Livy’s narrative strategies, and the intersection of myth and historical analysis in Roman historiography. She serves on editorial boards for Brill’s Historiography of Rome and its Empire and OUP’s Pseudepigrapha Latina, shaping contemporary scholarly discourse in classics.
