Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
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Frank M. Snowden, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Howard University, and one of the foremost authorities on blacks in classical antiquity.
Snowden was born in York County, Virginia. He graduated from Boston Latin School and earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He taught classics at Georgetown University, Vassar College, and Mary Washington College. He was dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Howard University, and was the first honoree in the Howard University Libraries' "Excellence at Howard" program.
He has served as a member of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO in Paris, as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Rome, and as a specialist lecturer for the United States Department of State.
His many books include: Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience (1970), which received the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philological Association; The Image of the Black in Western Art I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire, which he co-authored (1976); and Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks (1983).
In 2003, Snowden was honored at the White House as a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
References
- National Endowment for the Humanities; President Bush Awards 2003 Humanities Medals
- Frank Snowden, Jr.: Transcending Prejudice, Humanities, January/February 2004, Volume 25/Number 1
Categories
Living people | African American academics | American academics | American diplomats | Georgetown University faculty