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Thomas A. J. McGinn
Dr. Thomas A. J. McGinn is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He earned a BA from Harvard College magna cum laude, an MA from Cambridge University, and a PhD from the University of Michigan. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Rome, and the Fulbright Commission. Some of his most famous books are Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome, The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World, and Widows and Patriarchy (2008).