Johannes Haubold - Biography#

Johannes Haubold, PhD Cantab. 1998 (supervisor Simon Goldhill), is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Previously, he held positions in Cambridge, Durham, Leiden, Paris, and at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC.

His specialty is the relationship between the cultures and languages of ancient Greece and the Near East. He is the author and co-author of four monographs (the last of which won the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence), four edited volumes, and some sixty articles and book chapters.

Haubold is co-editor, with Sophus Helle, Enrique Jimémenz, and Selena Wisnom of the Library of Babylonian Literature (Bloomsbury), a series that aims to make the major works of literature in the Akkadian language accessible to new readers; and a co-investigator of the Princeton-based NLP tool Logion, which aids the restoration and elucidation of pre-modern Greek texts.