Ross Scaife
| Allen Ross Scaife | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 31, 1960 Fredericksburg, Virginia |
| Died | March 15, 2008 (aged 47) Lexington, Kentucky |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | professor |
| Known for | classics scholar, digital humanities |
Allen Ross Scaife (born March 31, 1960, Fredericksburg, Virginia – died March 15, 2008, Lexington, Kentucky) was a Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky.
Ross Scaife was born to William and Sylvia Scaife in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1960, one of four children. He was married to Cathy Edwards Scaife and they had three sons, Lincoln (b. 1991), Adrian (b. 1994), and Russell (b. 1998). He died at home after a year-long fight against cancer.
He graduated in 1978 from the Tilton School in New Hampshire and he read Classics and Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. In 1985 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for a year of study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece and in 1988 he participated in the summer program at the American Academy in Rome. He earned his PhD in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin for his thesis on The Kypria and its early reception.
He worked from 1991 to the time of his death at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literature, and Cultures of the University of Kentucky. His primary research and teaching interests were ancient art and material culture, women and gender in Antiquity, as well as Aristophanes and the Greek historians.
Scaife was best known for his pioneering work in the use of computer technology in humanities scholarship. He was the founding editor of the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities in 1997, which serves as an umbrella project for many projects in the Classics, such as EpiDoc, the Suda on Line, Diotima and the Neo-Latin Colloquia. Ross Scaife was a co-creator of the latter three.
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