Hunter Rawlings: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as Classicists
Hunter Rawlings: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as Classicists
Hunter R. Rawlings began his career in academic administration at Colorado, first as classics department chair and then as associate vice-chancellor for instruction. From 1988 to 1995 he served as President of the University of Iowa; from 1995 to 2003 as President of Cornell University.
While at Cornell, Rawlings also held the rank of professor of classics: teaching an undergraduate classics course during the last two years of his presidency, and continuing to teach a range of courses—from Periclean Athens to Advanced Greek Oratory— in the Cornell classics department after stepping down as president. He reassumed the Cornell presidency again on an interim basis in 2005-2006, and subsequently served as professor of classical history in Cornell’s Departments of History and Classics. In June 2011 he became President of the Association of American Universities in Washington, DC.
Rawlings is a member of the Montpelier board. His lecture will examine Madison’s and Jefferson’s close and serious engagements with classical learning, as private citizens and public figures.
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