Victoria Greene
- Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Victoria Greene is a historian of gender, slavery, and warfare in the ancient Greek world, particularly in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. At Yale, Victoria is working on her book project, Gendered Warfare in the Polis Landscape: The Experiences of Women in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), which is based on her dissertation of the same title. As the first comprehensive study of women in the Peloponnesian War, it analyzes this period of conflict through the lens of gender and employs the analytic of landscapes to illuminate the experiences of women, both the geopolitical landscape of interstate relations dominated by the polis structure and the physical and social landscapes that women traversed as they lived through these conflicts. Her current research focuses on feminist political economy approaches to the Greek interstate system in the late fifth century BCE, the trade in enslaved people, war refugee communities, and the militarization of women.
Victoria’s research has been supported by Columbia University, as well as by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was a fellow in the Department of Greek and Roman Art in 2023-2024.
Education
- PhD in History, Columbia University, 2026
- MPhil in History, Columbia University, 2022
- Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Columbia University, 2022
- MA in History, Columbia University, 2021
- BA in Ancient History and Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2019