Joy Connolly | |
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| Born | 1970 Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
| Organization | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Title | President, Distinguished Professor of Classics |
Joy Connolly is an American scholar of classics and the president of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was previously interim president[1] and provost[2] of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was formerly a professor of classics and the dean for humanities at New York University.[3] Connolly's main research interests are Roman republicanism, rhetoric, civic discourse, classical reception, and the role that aesthetic experience plays in the formation of political judgement.