Dan-el Padilla Peralta: “Platano Classics”
Undocumented Encounters with Greece & Rome
4:00 pm
Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center
Room: Unity Room
1505 S St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: GAUN
Contact:
Classics and Religious Studies, crs-office@unl.edu
Princeton University professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta will give a lecture entitled “Platano Classics: Undocumented Encounters with Greece & Rome.” This event has been funded generously by the Department of Classics & Religious Studies, the Institute for Ethnic Studies and the Department of English.
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the United States with his family at the age of four. After overstaying their visas and falling out of legal immigration status, he and his family lived in poverty and spent a year in New York City’s shelter system. With the support of mentors, he was admitted to Collegiate, a private all-boys’ school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, from which he graduated cum laude in 2002. He received his AB in Classics summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was chosen salutatorian of the class of 2006; his MPhil in Greek and Roman History (Classics) from the University of Oxford; and his PhD in Classics from Standford University. He is currently a Mellon Research Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Columbia University. In the summer of 2016, he will be returning to Princeton as an assistant professor in Classics.
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the United States with his family at the age of four. After overstaying their visas and falling out of legal immigration status, he and his family lived in poverty and spent a year in New York City’s shelter system. With the support of mentors, he was admitted to Collegiate, a private all-boys’ school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, from which he graduated cum laude in 2002. He received his AB in Classics summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was chosen salutatorian of the class of 2006; his MPhil in Greek and Roman History (Classics) from the University of Oxford; and his PhD in Classics from Standford University. He is currently a Mellon Research Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Columbia University. In the summer of 2016, he will be returning to Princeton as an assistant professor in Classics.