I’m a classicist at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures. My main academic interests include ancient models of persuasion, the early modern reception of classical thought, the history of lexicography, and persuasive technology.

My first book is Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics (available at Bookshop.org and Amazon). By excavating texts from antiquity and modern age, Learning to Be Fair connects current debates about equity to long-standing, unsettled, and even paradoxical questions about equality before the law and the possibility of teaching people to be good.

During the 2016–2017 academic year, I was the NEH/SCS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich.

Before I began my academic career, I taught English in a public high school in Phillips County, Arkansas. I’m a graduate of Harvard College and originally come from Grayling, Michigan.

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You can find my work at PhilPapers and ORCID (0009-0006-4552-3691).

Get in touch by e-mail: cm at charlesmcnamara dot com

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