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George A. Kennedy | William S. Powell, "The First State University"

George A. Kennedy (b. 1928) received his PhD in Classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled Prolegomena and Commentary to Quintilian VIII (Pr. & 1-iii). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964.  In 1966, he was appointed as Professor and Chair of the Section of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was to accept a highly distinguished career equally a teacher, scholar, and administrator.  He was named Paddison Professor of Classics in 1973 and retired in 1995.

Kennedy is an internationally recognized dominance on the Graeco-Roman rhetorical tradition.  He had laid the foundations of his reputation before coming to UNC, having published a serial of manufactures and his first book, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (Princeton Academy Press, 1963), inaugurating what was to become a three-book history of ancient rhetoric.  The serial connected with The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman Globe (Princeton, 1972; awarded the Goodwin Award past the American Philological Association in 1975) and Greek Rhetoric nether Christian Emperors (Princeton, 1983), and was summed up in A New History of Classical Rhetoric (Princeton, 1994).  In other works he extended the disciplinary boundaries of the study of ancient rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (UNC Press, 1980; 2^nd ed. 1999), New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism (UNC Printing, 1984), and Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction (Oxford University Printing, 1998).  The second of these books helped spark an interest in the rhetorical criticism of the New Testament that continues to this twenty-four hour period.  He also published an annotated translation of Aristotle'due south Rhetoric (Oxford Academy Press, 1991; 2^nd ed. 2007) and edited the first volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (1989).  In improver to his own extensive program of inquiry, Kennedy served for vi years as 1 of the editors of L'Année Philologique, which at the time had its American office at UNC.  Kennedy has continued his research career throughout his retirement, although his focus has shifted more to modern and specially French literature.

Kennedy's didactics reflected his broad range of interests, encompassing Classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric.  He won a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.  He was a much sought-out graduate supervisor and mentor, and during his years at UNC, supervised some sixteen MA theses and twenty-four PhD dissertations on a wide range of topics.  Among his PhD students were Ian McDonald, Cecil Wooten, James May, Christopher Craig, Edwin Carawan, Sheila Murnaghan, Ronald Begley, and Terry Papillon.

At UNC-Chapel Hill, Kennedy served as Chair of the Department of Classics from 1966 to 1976, as Chair of the Faculty Quango from 1985 until 1988, and as Chair of the Lath of Governors of the UNC Press.  In 1983 the University awarded him the Thomas Jefferson Honor, presented annually to "that member of the academic community who through personal influence and performance of duty in educational activity, writing, and scholarship has best exemplified the ethics and objectives of Thomas Jefferson."  Outside Chapel Hill, he served as president both of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and of the American Philological Clan (1979).  He served as editor of the American Journal of Philology for eight years (1989-1996), taking over at a time when the periodical was defenseless up in a controversy over its editorial policy and helping resolve the conflict; he was afterwards named Honorary Editor of the periodical.  President Carter appointed him to the National Humanities Council, on which he served a half-dozen-yr term.  He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and a Fellow of the American University of Arts and Sciences.

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