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Gregory S. Aldrete, Ph.D.

Frankenthal Professor of History and

Humanistic Studies

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

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rofessor Gregory S. Aldrete is the Frankenthal
Professor of History and Humanistic Studies
at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.
He received his B.A. from Princeton University in
1988 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
in 1995. His interdisciplinary scholarship spans the
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Among the books Professor Aldrete has written or edited are Gestures
and Acclamations in Ancient Rome; Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome;
Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia; The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour through History from Ancient Times to
the Present, volume 1, The Ancient World; The Long Shadow of Antiquity:
What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us? (with Alicia Aldrete);
and Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax
Mystery (with Scott Bartell and Alicia Aldrete).

Professor Aldrete has won many awards for his teaching, including two
national ones: In 2012, he was named the Wisconsin Professor of the Year
by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and in 2010,
he received the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in
Teaching at the College Level (the national teaching award given annually by
the professional association of Classics professors). Professor Aldrete also
has been a University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow, a University
of Wisconsin–Green Bay Teaching Scholar, and winner of a Teaching at Its
Best award.

Professor Aldrete’s research has been equally honored with a number of
prestigious fellowships, including two year-long Humanities Fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Solmsen