Curtis Dozier

Curtis Dozier is Associate Professor and Chair of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College. He is an internationally recognized expert on how extremists and hate groups invoke Greco-Roman antiquity to promote their politics. He documents examples of such appropriations at his award-winning website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, and is the author of the first book-length treatment of this phenomenon: The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026).