Grant Parker

Grant Parker is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, with appointments in the Department of Classics and African and African American Studies. He also holds a courtesy appointment in Comparative Literature. Since joining Stanford in 2006, he has led projects like Aftermaths of Enslavement: Curating Legacies, Egypt in South Africa, and Voortrekker Monumentality, focusing on colonial ideologies and legacies of enslavement through digital databases.

Education:

• B.A. in English and Latin, University of Cape Town (1987)
• B.A. (Honours) in Latin, University of Cape Town (1988)
• M.A. in Latin, University of Cape Town (1991)
• Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Princeton University (1999)

His research integrates Roman imperial culture with postcolonial and comparative frameworks, examining memorialization, public history, and historical cartography. He works across the ancient Mediterranean and South Africa, comparing imperial legacies.

Recent publications analyze monumentality (e.g., obelisks), myth in late antiquity, and subaltern voices in Latin. His edited volume South Africa, Greece, Rome: Classical Confrontations (2016/7) bridges classical and African studies.

Honors:

• Nominated as 'Standout Scholar' under forty, Black Issues in Higher Education (2003)

He advises doctoral candidates and leads CESTA projects on South African museums and historical memory. Current teaching includes courses on empire-building, slavery narratives, and classical California.