Kevin Clinton

Kevin Clinton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Member of its Graduate Field of Classics. As Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, he held the Wheeler Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; currently with the ASCSA as Member Emeritus of its Managing Committee. His publications, primarily in ancient Greek religion and epigraphy, include Eleusis, The Inscriptions on Stone, which was aided by a Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study and Whitehead Fellowship at the ASCSA. Professor Clinton has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim and Mellon Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as major grants from the Kress and Getty Foundations and the Packard Humanities Institute. As a member of the American Excavations in Samothrace, he is carrying out research on the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, and he is also engaged in a long-term project of editing (with Nora Dimitrova) Inscriptiones Graecae II³, fasc. 9. He is Co-President of the American Research Center in Sofia Foundation and a Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.