Martin Shedd

Martin Shedd received his B.A. in classics and music (collaborative piano) at Saint Olaf College, and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in classical studies at Indiana University. He returns to Hamilton after two years in Munich, Germany, as the Society for Classical Studies fellow to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, where part of his work was, quite literally, the definition of ridiculus. His research examines how historiographic writings from the later Roman Empire construct and manipulate ideas of identity and belonging, through rhetoric and the reinterpretation of prior historians. His co-authored translation of the fifth-century Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus recently released with the Society of Biblical Literature Press.

Appointed to the Faculty

Educational Background

Ph.D., Indiana University
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., St. Olaf College