Claire Taylor (historian)

Claire Taylor
Born	Claire Elizabeth Taylor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis	A New Political World: Changing Patterns of Participation in Athenian Democracy (2005)
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Website	history.wisc.edu/people/taylor-claire/

Claire Elizabeth Taylor is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW).

Education

Taylor was educated in the United Kingdom, undertaking her undergraduate at the University of Nottingham; M.A. at King's College London; and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 2005.

Career

Taylor is currently the "John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her specialisations include Athenian Democracy, Women's Social Networks, and Epigraphic Historiography. She has previously lecturered at Trinity College Dublin.

Her most recent publication ('Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiancing Penia in Democratic Athens', 2017) explores the nature of poverty, particularly from the perspective on non-elites, in Athens during the 5th and 6th Centuries BCE. It has been regarded as "...launching the challenge of looking beyond the borders of literary representations." and "...a welcome contribution to the growing debate on our understanding of poverty in the ancient world."

She currently teaches courses on "The Ancient Mediterranean", "A History of Greek Civilisation", and "Citizens and Slaves in the Ancient Greek World".

Selected publications

Taylor's publications include:

• Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiancing Penia in Democratic Athens, 2017; ISBN 9780198786931
• Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (as Co-editor with Kostas Vlassopoulos, 2015); ISBN 9780198726494
• Ancient Graffiti in Context (as Co-editor with Jennifer Baird, 2012); ISBN 9780415653527