Jeffrey Henderson

Jeffrey Henderson is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature, and former Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, at Boston University. He was raised in Verona, New Jersey and educated at Kenyon College (BA 1968), where he also received an honorary degree in 1994, and Harvard University (MA 1970, PhD 1972). Henderson came to Boston University in 1991 as Chair of the Department of Classical Studies and was the founding Director of the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He held previous professorships at Yale University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California, where he chaired the Department of Classics and won the Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award. -- Boston University