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Maud Gleason is an American classical scholar, who is known for her work on the Second Sophistic, Greece in the Roman Era, and Sexuality in Ancient Rome. She is Lecturer of Classics at Stanford University.

Career
Gleason was educated at Radcliffe College, Oxford University, and University of California, Berkeley.

Gleason completed her BA in Classics summa cum laude at Radcliffe College, where she was awarded the Junior Phi Beta Kappa and Lucy Allen Patton Prizes, as well as a Rotary Foundation Fellowship for study at Oxford University, where she completed a second B.A. with first class honours in Literae Humaniores, with focus on Ancient History and Philosophy. She went on to complete her Ph.D. in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. She joined Stanford University as a lecturer in 1988 and has taught there since. In 2005, she delivered the Gray Lectures at Cambridge University on the notion of 'Identity Theft' in antiquity. In 2007-8, she delivered the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures at the University of Michigan on 'Transformation: Fears and Fantasies in the Roman Empire', dedicated to a comparative analysis of ancient mythology and pharmacology.

Gleason is on the editorial board of Bryn Mawr Classical Review and has previously acted on the editorial board of Classical Antiquity (journal).

Select publications

 * Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome (Princeton University Press 2008)
 * “Identity Theft: Doubles and Masquerades in Cassius Dio's Contemporary History.” Classical Antiquity 30, no. 1 (2011): 33-86.