Professor and Chair of Classical Studies
James Uden is a professor in Classical Studies and currently chairs that department at Boston University. His passion is bringing the ancient world to life in the modern classroom. At BU, his courses include The World of Rome (an introduction to daily life in Ancient Rome), the History of Medicine in Greece and Rome, and a collaborative class on Rome and China, as well as classes in the Core Curriculum and in the Latin language program. He has written two books—one on ancient satire, and the other on the image of Rome in eighteenth-century literature—and is currently completing a new book about doctors and medicine in Rome. He is the winner of the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences and is the Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellow for 2019-2021.