Professor Jeri Blair DeBrohun This is Me

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1. 1. Pembroke Center Faculty

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   Published on: 2/3/2008   Last Visited: 2/3/2008

   Jeri DeBrohun Pembroke Center Faculty
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   Jeri DeBrohun
   
   Associate Professor of Classics: MacFarlane House 205 Phone: Jeri DeBrohun@brown.edu
   
   Jeri DeBrohun's research interests include both Hellenistic Greek and Republican and Augustan Latin poetry and culture, with particular emphasis on allusion and genre. She is also interested in cultural poetics and is currently researching and writing a book on dress as an expressive medium in the ancient world.
   
   Biography
   
   Associate Professor Jeri DeBrohun received her B.A. with Honors in Classics from The University of Cincinnati in 1985 and completed her Ph.D. in Classical Studies at The University of Michigan in 1992. She taught for three years (1992-1995) in the Department of Classics at Florida State University before joining the Brown faculty in 1995. In addition to teaching courses in Greek and Latin prose and poetry to both undergraduates and graduate students, Professor DeBrohun regularly teaches Greek Tragedy in translation and Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places.
   
   Seminars recently taught by Professor DeBrohun include Roman Satire, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Propertius Book 1, Propertius Book 2, Tibullus, Ovid's Exile Poetry, Lucretius, Greek and Roman Epigram (from its Greek beginnings through Martial).
   
   At Brown, Professor DeBrohun has been the Graduate Adviser and Director of Graduate Studies in Classics since 1997. She also advises undergraduates regularly. In 2004, she was awarded the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities.

2. 2. www.hyperhistory.org

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   Published on: 5/1/2007   Last Visited: 5/1/2007

   Does this image support Professor DeBrohun's claim above about ,sophisticated' fashion?
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   How does this image relate to Jeri DeBrohun's claim about ,the determined expression of personal style' through ,clothing, correct grooming, or the use of adornments such as jewellery, perfume or cosmetics'?
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   Jeri Blair DeBrohun is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Her major interest is in Hellenistic and Latin poetry. Professor DeBrohun's interest in Cultural Studies has led to her researching and writing about dress and fashion in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
   
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   ancient Greece and Rome
   
   Jeri DeBrohun's article deals mainly with the period from around 500BC (BCE) to about AD100.
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   Because Professor DeBrohun's article spans several centuries, it provides a good opportunity to ,get a handle' on ,fashion' as an historical phenomenon.
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   Jeri DeBrohun shows how styles and colours of dress could signify status and power in ancient societies. And how ,different' styles were adopted by dissidents keen to challenge and overthrow the established order , like the Laconophiles in ancient Athens.
   
   Professor DeBrohun also points out that, in the ancient world, males and females approached ,fashion' differently. Perhaps paradoxically, she points out, women often were the ones most preoccupied with fashion, even though they were usually the ,lesser' sex when it came to status and power. In those ancient times, ,fashion' was caught up in issues of gender.
   
   These last two points, about power and gender, indicate that some of the issues of fashion that characterised the ancient Greek and Roman worlds are still with us today. Clearly, Jeri DeBrohun's article can take us into another Historical Literacy , Making connections.
   
   Making connections
   
   Jeri DeBrohun herself signalled some of these connections at the end of her article, where she pointed out that "Virtually all of today's beauty aids can be paralleled in antiquity: from ,night creams' and ,beauty masks' to depilatory lotions and skin softeners".

3. 3. Pembroke Center: Affiliated Faculty

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   Jeri DeBrohun
   
   Associate Professor of Classics
   
   Jeri DeBrohun@brown.edu