George Alexander Kennedy
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1928 –
Who is George Alexander Kennedy?
George Alexander Kennedy is a contemporary scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.
Kennedy received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "PROLEGOMENA AND COMMENTARY TO QUINTILIAN VIII". Kennedy taught classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-eight years. He retired as George L. Paddison professor of classics. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Under President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy served on the National Council on the Humanities and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.
Kennedy has also been the editor of the American Journal of Philology.
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- Born
- Nov 26, 1928
Hartford - Also known as
- George A. Kennedy
- George Kennedy
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Classics
( - 1954)
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Fort Collins
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on July 23, 2013
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