Dr. Sarah Nix earned her B.A. in both Classics and History from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and from there returned to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where she had spent a college semester, to teach at Chiang Mai University. She moved back to the U.S. to earn her Ph.D. in Classical Languages and Literature from Brown University, graduating in 2005. Dr. Nix taught in the Classics Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before shifting to secondary education, taking a position at Miss Hall’s School in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where she currently teaches Latin and Greek. For ten summers, she also taught courses on the ancient city of Rome in both undergraduate and pre-college programs in Rome. In 2023 Dr. Nix co-led our Learning to Read Latin program in Rome and the Bay of Naples.
