Jackie Murray is Associate Professor of Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is an expert on imperial Greek literature, Hellenistic poetry, and the reception of Classics in African American and Afro-Caribbean literature.
Murray received her PhD in Classics from the University of Washington in 2005. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Polyphonic Argo.[1] Murray completed her BA at the University of Guelph in Classical Studies and Latin, and she was awarded an MA in classics from the University of Western Ontario.[2]
Murray's published research focuses on Roman and Hellenistic literature, especially Apollonius, and race and ethnicity in the ancient world.
Murray received the Andrew Heiskell/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2011–12). She was the first black woman to be awarded the Rome Prize in ancient studies.[2] Her research project focused on Apollonius’ Argonautica. Since then she has held a Margo Tytus Fellowship for Visiting Scholars at the University of Cincinnati (2017), a Scholarship and Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2018 and 2020), and a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship in 2021.[3] [4]
Murray is currently the John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities at the American Academy in Berlin (Fall 2022).[5] She became an associate professor in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in 2023.