Dr. Georgia Tsouvala

M/W 3:15-4:15pm, Friday 10:45-11:15am &
By appointment on Zoom, if your schedule conflicts with the drop-in office hours. Please email me at gtsouva@ilstu.edu for an appointment.
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
Dr. Georgia Tsouvala is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Illinois State University. She received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Dr. Georgia Tsouvala specializes in women's history in the Greco-Roman world, Greek archaeology, Greek literature, and Greek epigraphy. Her current research focuses on the history and literature of Greece in the early Roman Empire, women's history, Plutarch, inscriptions, and Archaic technology.
In addition to publishing several chapters and articles, she is a co-author of two textbooks on Greek history and culture, both published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent co-edited volumes are The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World (University of Wisconsin Press), and New Directions in the Study of Women in the Graeco-Roman World (Oxford University Press).
She is Associate Editor of New Perspectives in Ancient History book series published by Brill, and a two-term President of the Association of Ancient Historians.
Current Courses
101.006Western Civilization To 1500
350.001Women And Sexuality In Ancient Greece And Rome
220.001Ancient History Greece
111.001First Year Latin (Part I)
101.001Western Civilization To 1500
101.002Western Civilization To 1500
Teaching Interests & Areas
Professor Tsouvala teaches all levels of Greek and Roman history, as well as more specialized survey courses and seminars on Greco-Roman history, Alexander the Great, and Greek and Roman Women and Sexuality. Professor Tsouvala also teaches Western Civilization I to 1500, First Year Latin, and Ancient Greek.
Research Interests & Areas
Dr. Georgia Tsouvala specializes in women's history in the Greco-Roman world, Greek archaeology, Greek literature, and Greek epigraphy. Her current research focuses on the history and literature of Greece in the early Roman Empire, women's history, Plutarch, inscriptions, and Archaic technology.
Ph D Classics, Summa cum Laude
BA Ancient Greek and Latin w/ Departmental Honors
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member
Sabbatical Leave
Provost’s Leadership Initiative
Service Initiative Award
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award Member
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society
Book Review
Book, Chapter
Marriage in the Greco-Roman World, edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020, 3-19.
Documents and their Contexts. First North American Congress of Greek and Latin
Epigraphy (2011), J. Bodel and N. Dimitrova (eds.), Leiden: E. J. Brill (Brill Studies in
Greek and Roman Epigraphy, no. 5), 2015, 111-123.
Book, Edited
Encyclopedia
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