Scott Scullion heads to Oxford

Scott Scullion, associate professor of classics and chair of the department, has taken a position at Worcester College of Oxford University. He holds the titles of fellow and tutor in classics of Worcester College and university lecturer in Greek and Latin language and literature.

A member of the Union faculty since 1989, he spent a sabbatical year at Oxford three years ago. He interviewed for the Worcester position in July, delivering a paper, "Maenads and Men," in which he argued that the female followers of Dionysus carried on their rituals in the presence of men.

Scullion holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, and master's and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. A Toronto native who holds Canadian citizenship, he is the first Canadian ever to be appointed to a position in classics at Oxford, where there are three Americans on the fifty-two-member faculty.

"I'm hugely excited about going to Oxford," says Scullion, "which is probably the best place in the world for a classicist to be. The libraries are superb, unmatched elsewhere, and the place is full of first-rate scholars, both those who work there and the many who come to visit from all over the world."

This story was featured in Union College Magazine on January 1, 2004