Emily Greenwood is a professor of Classics and African-American Studies and Chair of the department of Classics at Yale University. She received the Runciman Award in 2011 for her book Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 2010).She attended Sevenoaks School and gained her BA, MPhil, and PhD at the University of Cambridge. Greenwood was a lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews from 2002–2008 and joined the Classics department at Yale in 2009.