World Class Educator
Grant Richard Parker
Title: Assistant Professor of Classical
Studies, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Education: Ph.D., Classical Philology,
Princeton University; M.A., Latin, University of Cape Town; B.A., Latin, University of
Cape Town
Age: 35
In the last years of apartheid rule in South Africa, Grant Richard Parker, a native of Cape Town, had a burning ambition to continue his education outside his home country. Though he managed to work abroad in Germany, he had envisioned pursuing graduate studies in the United Kingdom after gaining admission to a doctoral program at Oxford University.
