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Christopher B. Krebs studied classics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel (1st Staatsexamen 2000, Ph. D. 2003), and Oxford (M. St. 2002). He taught at University College Oxford and Harvard before joining ������ý’s Classics department in the summer of 2012, and held visiting positions at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the in Munich (see his “”). The (co-)author of five books and some 75 articles, entries, and reviews, and former editor of (from 2015-17), he is the recipient of the as well as the (for his ”).

He works in the fields of intellectual history, Greek and Roman historiography, and Latin philology: much to his own amazement, he has recently finished a commentary on Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum 7 (a “Green and Yellow” for Cambridge University Press) and is now at work on an intellectual biography of Caesar in the context of the intellectual life of the Roman Republic (W.W. Norton) as well as the Cambridge Companion to Sallust. includes ” (American Journal of Philology), ” (Classical Quarterly), “” (Classical Quarterly), “” (Histos), and "Blood on his words, barley on his mind. True names in Caesar's speech for the legendary Barley-Muncher (BG 7.77)" (Classical Quarterly).

He has appeared on television and radio (most recently on ) and occasionally reviews for the WSJ, the LRB, and the TLS (most recently, “,” “”).

He has co-organized and co-teaches the summer program for the and has taught Greek and Latin at all levels, composition courses, and seminars on Greek and Roman historiography and Latin poetry. In the Autumn, he typically teaches a course on “Great Books, Big Ideas from Antiquity” as part of the Humanities Core (which was reviewed by ), and in the winter a Freshman Seminar on Ancient Rhetoric, its Contemporary Application, and the Art of Speaking Well (“”). He regularly offers classes in , such as Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War: An Introduction to the Historian, Realist, Philosopher, has co-taught a course on at (covered in the ), and has offered a course on since 2018 within the same program. In 2016 he started the , the third meeting of which took place in . He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, and, since 2012, on at least one of the following committees every year: undergraduate studies, graduate studies, and graduate admissions. In 2022/3 he will serve as Director of graduate studies.

He is currently co-organizing conferences with Professor Christine Walde (Mainz) on

and with Luca Grillo (Notre Dame), Emily Baragwanath (UNC), and Andrew Feldherr (Princeton) on

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