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SUMMARY:The Sawyer Seminar Series: Birthing the Nation presents a Public Lecture
: Curtis Dozier
DESCRIPTION:\n“Behind Every Great Man: Greco-Roman Women in Contemporary
American White Nationalist Thought”\n\nWhite nationalist activists conc
eive of themselves as noble warriors resisting invasion and degeneracy\,
finding ancient models in Homeric heroes\, Spartan hoplites\, and Roman
legionaries. Against the hypervisibility of these masculine models\, th
is lecture examines the surprising inspiration this movement takes from
Greco-Roman women\, including some who have long been claimed by feminis
t historians.\n\nCurtis Dozier teaches in the Department of Greek and Ro
man Studies at Vassar College. He is the director of Pharos Doing Justic
e to the Classics\, a website that documents appropriations of Greco-Rom
an antiquity by hate groups\, and is the author of The White Pedestal: G
reco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism\, forthcoming from Yale Unive
rsity Press in 2025.\n\nPlease reach out to Hazel Velasco Palacios hgv50
08@psu.edu if you have any questions about the event or need accommodati
ons.\n\nThis event is supported by the Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Semina
r Program and cosponsored by the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, and Se
xuality Studies\, and the Humanities Institute.\n\nFor more details: htt
ps://events.la.psu.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-series-curtis-dozier/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Behind
Every Great Man: Greco-Roman Women in Contemporary American White Natio
nalist Thought”
White nationalist activists conceive of t
hemselves as noble warriors resisting invasion and degeneracy, finding a
ncient models in Homeric heroes, Spartan hoplites, and Roman legionaries
. Against the hypervisibility of these masculine models, this lecture ex
amines the surprising inspiration this movement takes from Greco-Roman w
omen, including some who have long been claimed by feminist historians.<
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Curtis Dozier teaches in the Department of Greek
and Roman Studies at Vassar College. He is the director of Pharos Doing Justice to the Classics,
a website that documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate
groups, and is the author of The White Pedestal: Greco-Roman Antiqu
ity and White Nationalism, forthcoming from Yale University Press i
n 2025.
Please reach out to Hazel Velasco Palacios hgv5008@psu.edu
if you have any questions about the event or need accommodations.
This event is supported by the Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar Progr
am and cosponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality S
tudies, and the Humanities Institute.
For more details: htt
ps://events.la.psu.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-series-curtis-dozier/
URL:https://sites.psu.edu/birthingthenation/calendar_event/behind-every-grea
t-man-greco-roman-women-in-contemporary-american-white-nationalist-thoug
ht-a-sawyer-public-lecture-with-curtis-dozier/
LOCATION:335 Willard Building
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