K. Scarlett Kingsley was born in New Jersey and raised in Florida. She received her B.A. at Florida State University (2007), an M.St. from the University of Oxford (2009), and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2016). Before joining The American College of Greece as a Visiting Fellow, she taught Classics at Agnes Scott College (2016–2025) as an Assistant and then Associate Professor. She also served as the Elizabeth A. Whitehead Distinguished Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2024–2025).
Scarlett is an intellectual historian specializing in the intersection of classical historiography and Presocratic philosophy. Her monograph, Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE (CUP 2024), was supported by a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2019–2020). She is co-editor (with G. Monti and T. Rood) of The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (CUP 2022) and is currently completing a co-authored book with T. Rood, Land, Wealth, and Empire in Herodotus: Reading the End of the Histories (OUP), which was awarded a joint Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship (2019–2020). She is also co-editor (with G. Proietti) of the forthcoming Oxford Critical Guide to Herodotus’ Histories (OUP). She has published articles on Hecataeus, Herodotus, and Thucydides and intellectual culture. She has additional interests in the reception of the Greek historians and Pausanias in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British travelogue.
