Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch (born March 17, 1966) is an American historian and professor of classics at the University of Chicago. She has previously held professorships at the University of California, Berkeley and Brown University where she was the MacMillan professor of classics from 2008 to 2009. From 2015 to 2024 she was the Director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (IFK) at the University of Chicago.