Dr Naomi Campa
CHCI-ACLS Fellow, February-March 2023
Home institution: University of Texas at Austin
Dr Naomi Campa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her BA in Classics from New College of Florida and her MA and PhD in Classics from the University of Washington. Dr Campa’s research reflects an interest in connecting “big ideas” to the people on the ground. What can Athens’ literature and institutional structures reveal to us about how Athenian citizens thought of themselves and their world? How did their ideas affect the lives of insiders and outsiders? Dr Campa investigates these questions from a perspective of intellectual history, political theory, and social history. She has published on freedom in Athens and the intersection of property ownership and Athenian female citizenship. Her forthcoming book, Freedom and Power in Classical Athens, develops a historically-situated understanding of freedom in order to illuminate the effects of democratic values on the polis and the individual within it.
Project Title: I Do What I Want: Freedom and Power in Classical Athens
At IASH, her work will be focused on metics (foreign residents) in Athens, the subject of her next book.