BIPOC Classicists
By: Central Gubernator
Natalie Allen
THE OJCL TORCH: FALL EDITION 20
To celebrate diversity, this Summer the OJCL recognized a classicist of the week. Once a week we celebrated a female or BIPOC classicist. Three of the Classicists recognized during the classicist of the week were Yung In Chae, a writer, editor, and classicist from Seoul, South Korea; Emily Greenwood, a professor Classics and a scholar of ancient Greek prose literature from the Cayman Islands; and Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an associate professor who teaches the Roman Republic and early Empire at Princeton from the Dominican Republic. Diversity brings new experiences and ideas that allow people to learn from each other.
Yung In Chae, a writer and editor from Seoul, South Korea, writes about ancient Greece and Rome along with other topics she finds interesting such as feminism and culture. She graduated with an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University in 2015. Yung In Chae received an MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge in 2017. From 2015 to 2020 she was an editor at Eidolon, an online magazine for modern approaches to the classics. She argues against the harmful narrative of an “East-West” binary in classics.