Stephen Sansom

Stephen Sansom (PhD Stanford '18) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Florida State University. He has been a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University (2018–22) and fellow at Havard's Center for Hellenic Studies (Fall 2024). His research investigates aesthetic experience in Greek epic from literary, computational, and comparativist perspectives. As an NEH Fellow at the ASCSA (Spring 2025), his project, "A New Oral-Poetic Archive of Western Crete Song," archives and analyzes a cache of video-taped conversations and performances of fifteen-syllable verse collected by Greek and US researchers in western Crete (2005).