Article about Josh Sosin in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Duke Classics Scholar Finds Another Home in the Library

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Joshua D. Sosin will be the first tenured professor at Duke to have a joint appointment in the library and an academic department.

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By Jennifer Howard

In high school, Joshua D. Sosin had two favorite subjects: Latin and biology. "In the end I decided that my Latin teacher was cooler, and if I, too, wanted to be cool, I should do Latin," he says. That led to a concentration in classics, philosophy, and religion at what is now the University of Mary Washington, where he studied not only Latin but also Greek and Egyptian Coptic. He got a Ph.D. in classics from Duke University in 2000. "At no point did I consider what I would do with any of this," he says.