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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Princeton University

Dan-el Padilla Peralta is Professor of Classics and Associated Faculty in African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (2015), Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic (2020), and Classicism and Other Phobias (2025); the editor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (with Matthew Loar and Carolyn MacDonald, 2017) and Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c. 400–200 BCE (with Seth Bernard and Lisa Mignone, 2023); and a volume editor for the Cambridge History of the African Diaspora. In 2026, he will join the faculty of Arizona State University’s School of International Letters and Cultures.

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