John Norman Austin, PhD

Professor Emeritus

John Austin

A Timeline of Professional Milestones 

1937

Born in Anshun, China to John Alfred and Lillian Maud Austin.

1958

Receives a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.

1959

Receives a Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley.

1965

Receives a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California Berkeley.

1966

Becomes an assistant and then associate professor at the University of California Los Angeles.

1968

Becomes a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies.

1971

Serves as visiting professor at Yale University.

1974

Becomes a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.

1975

Authors “Archery at the Dark of the Moon.”

1976

Becomes an Aurelio Professor of Greek at Boston University.

1978

Becomes a professor and chairman of the Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts.

1980

Becomes a professor of classics at the University of Arizona.

1987

Serves as acting humanities dean at the University of Arizona.

1990

Authors “Meaning and Being in Myth.”

1994

Authors “Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom.”

1995

Appointed head of the Department of Classics at the University of Arizona.

1999

Serves as a visiting professor at Leeds University.

2002

Becomes Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Education at the University of Arizona.

2011

Authors “Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery.”

 

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