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Mack Zalin

Dr. Mackenzie (Mack) Zalin is Librarian for Classics, Comparative Thought and Literature, Jewish Studies, and Modern Languages and Literatures in the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. In this capacity, he oversees collection development, reference, and instruction in the Sheridan Libraries for French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish languages and
literatures.

In addition to his regular duties at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Zalin serves as the chair of the Advisory Board of the American Office of L’Année philologique to the Society for Classical Studies. He is also an ex officio member of the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. His recent scholarship evinces an array of interests in early modern Spanish and Latin, as can be seen in co-authored publications in the Bulletin of the Comediantes and Grey Room.

Education

MS, Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2019
PhD, Classical Studies, Duke University, 2016
MSt, Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 2010
BA, Greek and Roman Studies (Minor in Spanish; honors, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude), Rhodes College, 2009