Dan-el Padilla Peralta was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and came to the United States with his family at the age of four. He received his BA summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was chosen salutatorian of the class of 2006. He received his MPhil from the University of Oxford and his PhD in classics from Stanford University. He is currently a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University.
This biography was last updated on 07/28/2015.
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