Jeremy McInerney is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies. A faculty member for more than 30 years, McInerney has also served as the Department of Classical Studies’ Chair and Undergraduate Chair. He also currently serves as Faculty Co-Director of the Post-baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies.

Centered upon the ancient Greek world, McInerney’s academic interests include landscape, religion and social history. His past research has explored ethnicity in central Greece during the Archaic and classical periods, the growth of sanctuaries at Delphi and Kalapodi, and the role of cattle in ancient Greece, both in myth and as sacrificial animals.

Author of Ancient Greece. A New History and The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks, McInerney received recognition for his study of hybridity in his book Centaurs and Snake-Kings, which was named one of the best, new academic publications in 2024 by The New Stateman. His current project is as co-editor of The Oxford History of the Classical World, the first volume of which will be published in late 2025. Two other coedited volumes, Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece, and Meanings and Values of the Sacred in Greco-Roman Antiquity are also forthcoming.

McInerney’s university service has included membership on several committees, including the School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Education Committee, the College Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. He has also served as a chair of the Graduate Group in Ancient History, and the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.