Joy Connolly

Joy Connolly is an American scholar of classics and the president of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was previously interim president and provost of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was formerly a professor of classics and the dean for humanities at New York University. Connolly's main research interests are Roman republicanism, rhetoric, civic discourse, classical reception, and the role that aesthetic experience plays in the formation of political judgement. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.