Elizabeth D. Carney

Elizabeth Donnelley Carney is Professor Emerita of History at Clemson University who is known for her work in the field of gender studies in Ancient Macedonia.

Biography Carney grew up in the northeastern part of the United States in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She has a B.A. from Smith College (1969), and an M.A. from Duke University (1973). In 1975 she finished her Ph.D. at Duke University. She began as an instructor at Clemson University in 1973, and was promoted to Professor in 1998. From 2010 until 2017, Carney was the Carol K. Brown Endowed Scholar in the Humanities. She became professor emerita in 2018.

Career Carney's research provides modern ideas on the role of women in the Macedonian and Hellenistic world. In 2020, Oxbow Books published a festschrift, a gathering of works in her honor, titled Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity: Studies in honor of Elizabeth D. Carney.

Selected publications