David van SchoorAssistant Professor of Classics

David van Schoor was born, raised, and educated at Cape Town, in the Republic of South Africa. He majored in ancient Greek, and Latin at the University of Cape Town. After completing his BA in 2001, he travelled to Tokyo where he lived and worked as a high school teacher for three years. Returning to South Africa he took up posts teaching Classics in Cape Town and at Rhodes University in Makhanda (Grahamstown) and completed his MA in Latin poetry in 2008. On being awarded a Swiss Federal Scholarship in 2013, he pursued his PhD in Greek drama at the University of Zürich, under Prof. Christoph Riedweg. From 2018-2022 David was senior lecturer in Classics at Rhodes University. From 2022-2023 he was a residential fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC and joins Emory as Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek in June 2023