Mallory Monaco Caterine, Ph.D., joined Tulane University’s Department of Classical Studies in 2013 as a Professor of Practice. Broadly interested in Greek cultural history, her research focuses on leadership in antiquity, with particular attention to non-traditional leaders such as tyrants and women.
Monaco Caterine has collaborated with an international network of classicists to create two digital, open-access courses on leadership in antiquity. The most recent of these examined the Trump presidency through the lens of ancient leadership models. In teaching these courses at Tulane, she challenges her students to creatively apply the leadership theories they study through a consulting project aimed at improving the undergraduate experience.
In May 2017, she organized a nearly-carbon-neutral (NCN) virtual pedagogy conference titled “Teaching Leaders and Leadership through Classics,” which explored how classical antiquity has been—and can be—used as a foundation for leadership education in the 21st century. She has also worked to expand access to classical studies in the New Orleans community by establishing an Aequora early Latin education site at Lafayette Academy Charter School, a project implemented through service-learning courses in Tulane’s Latin program.
Monaco Caterine earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she wrote her dissertation on Plutarch’s biographies of Hellenistic statesmen as leadership models for elite Greeks under Roman rule.
She held the Greenberg Family Professorship and Cole Fellowship from 2019 to 2024.