Ellen Eva Perry (born 1965)[1] is an American classicist who serves as the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross.
[2] Perry is a native of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where she majored in Greek with a minor in Latin, graduating in 1987.
Later in 1997, she joined the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross, receiving tenure in 2004.
She was elevated to a full-time professorship in 2017, and received the college's appointment as its Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor in 2021.
[6] On April 3, 2020, she delivered the Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, hosted by Case Western Reserve University.