Christelle Fischer-Bovet

Christelle Fischer-Bovet was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and attended the Université de Neuchâtel, where she studied History, Greek, and French. She did her graduate work at Stanford University, where she took her MA and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Classics. She is currently Associate Professor of Classics and History at the University of Southern California (USC) and is an ancient historian whose main interest is in the social, political, and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean from Alexander the Great to the Romans (4th c. BC-1st c. AD), with a focus on the Ptolemaic empire and Greco-Roman Egypt.