Peter Struck: Evan C Thompson Professor |
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Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for Education Andrew Binns announced the appointment of Peter Struck to the Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Struck is associate professor of Classical studies in the School of Arts & Sciences and faculty director of the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program. A prize-winning scholar and intellectual historian of ancient Greece who has taught at Penn since 1999, he is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (Princeton University Press, 2004), which won the prestigious Goodwin Award from the American Philological Association as the Best Book of the Year in Classics.
In 2004, Dr. Struck received the Lindback Award, Penn’s highest University-wide teaching honor. He was one of the first Penn faculty members to participate in open online learning, for which he received the Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching, and served from 2010-2012 as one of the Penn Fellows, the program that provides leadership development to select Penn faculty members in mid-career. His current work in progress, Divine Signs and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Divination in Antiquity, explores the history of Greek and Roman divination.
Dr. Struck earned a PhD (1997) in comparative literature and an MA (1991) in divinity from the University of Chicago and an AB (1987) in English and anthropology from the University of Michigan.
Evan C Thompson, W’64, endowed the Thompson Professorship in 2003 to recognize teaching excellence (Almanac November 11, 2003). The previous Evan C Thompson Professors were Barbra Mann Wall, associate professor of nursing in the School of Nursing; Daniel Lee, now professor of electrical & systems engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science; and Dennis DeTurck, now Fox Leadership Professor, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and professor of mathematics in the School of Arts & Sciences.
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