Associate Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities
Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group
Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project
About
Professor Eleni Bozia is an Associate Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities at the University of Florida. She studies linguistic and cultural diversity in Imperial Greek and Latin literature and its intersection with modern globalism. Co-founder and the Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project, an international consortium for the 3D digitization and preservation of historical artifacts, she promotes the collaboration between the humanities and the sciences. Bozia is also a pioneer in applying AI to the humanities and is the Founder and Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group. She is also the Vice Chair of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium and Commissioning Editor for Classics at the Literary Encyclopedia.
Bozia holds two doctoral degrees: a Ph.D. in Classical Studies (University of Florida, 2009) and a Dr. phil. in Digital Humanities (Universität Leipzig, 2018). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has been recognized with several awards, including the Young Researcher Scholarship from La Fondation Hardt in Geneva and the Mary A. Sollman Scholarship from the American Academy in Rome.
She is the author of the books Lucian and his Roman Voices: Cultural Exchanges and Conflicts in the Late Roman Empire (Routledge: New York and London, 2015) and Politics of Language: Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire (Bloomsbury, 2024). She is also the co-editor of the volumes Beyond the Standards: Attic, Koine, and Atticism (Brill, 2024) and Multilingual literary practices in a multicultural world, from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire (Brill, 2025). Currently, she is under contract with Liverpool University Press, working on a book titled “Otherness and the Self: Negotiating Identity Between the Classical and Modern Worlds” (forthcoming, 2027). She has also published widely and delivered talks on identity, otherness, and belonging in ancient and modern literature, digital humanities and AI, and the digital preservation of world heritage.
Professor Bozia is a TEDx speaker and a guest in the Podcast Series Beyond the Podium and Beyond the Talk TEDx UF.
You can follow her on LinkedIn at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleni-bozia/
Office: 134 Dauer Hall
Phone: +1 (352) 273 3694
Email: bozia@ufl.edu
Department of Classical Studies
University of Florida, PO Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435
How To Predict The Future With Classics And AI
At TedXUF 14, Eleni Bozia talked about visualizing a world driven by the wisdom of the past and the technological advancements of the present. She discussed how a partnership between Classical Studies and AI can achieve precisely that.