David J. Schenker

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
University of Missouri-Columbia
David J. Schenker, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classical Literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he has taught since 1991. Dr. Schenker earned his doctorate in Classics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Professor Schenker was a recipient of the 2006 American Philological Association Awards for Excellence in Teaching. At the University of Missouri-Columbia, he has won several teaching awards, including the Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award and the William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching.

His primary research interest is Greek literature of the 5th and e

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