Jinyu Liu Email & Phone Number

Professor Jinyu Liu (刘津瑜 or 刘津渝) is Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History, Department of History, Emory University. She was a Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University. She has a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia University (2004) and regularly teaches Roman Civilization and Latin. Her research interests include social relations in Roman cities, the non-elite in the Roman Empire, Latin epigraphy, as well as the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China. Her monograph "Collegia Centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West" was published by Brill in 2009. Sponsored by a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, a DePauw Faculty Fellowship and other grants, she is currently completing a book-length project on the translation history of Graeco-Roman classics in China. She is currently the Principal Investigator of "Translating the Complete Corpus of the Roman Poet Ovid into Chinese with Commentaries", a multi-year project sponsored by a National Social Sciences Fund of China Major Grant (2015-2020).Specialties: Roman history, Ancient Social history, Latin Epigraphy, Acculturation in the Roman Empire, Ancient economy, Reception of Classical Antiquity in Asia, Translation of Latin Texts into Chinese Faculty homepage: http://history.emory.edu/people/bios/faculty-bios/liu-jinyu.html

Listed skills include Latin, Ancient History, History, Higher Education, and 10 others.