Curriculum Vitae. She is married to Jonathan Bowker. She has been a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford (1989–91), a Rome Scholar (1991–92) and a Hugh Last Fellow (1996) at the British School of Rome, a Cotton Fellow (1997–98), a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–03), and a Visiting Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard (2005–06), and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow (2011–12). While at Harvard, Emma Dench has been the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for 2010–15 (recognizing "outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring and advising"), a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling (2008), and an Everett Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students (2015).
They have one child. She will deliver the Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge in May 2016.While at Harvard, Emma Dench has been the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for 2010–15 (recognizing "outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring and advising"), a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling (2008), and an Everett Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students (2015). Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores 1987) and at St. Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil … McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the ClassicsEmma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores 1987) and at St. Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History 1993).
Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London (1992–2006).