Margaret (Mounsey) Cook
 

Spouse: Divorced
Children: 1 - Jennifer
Home: St. Cloud, Minnesota
Occupation: Professor of Classics and Ancient History
Web page at: http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/MCOOK/

Margaret is a Professor of Classics and Ancient History, currently Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict, a women's college and men's university with shared faculty and curriculum. She has one child, Jennifer, who now lives on Vashon Island, where she designs and builds decks, greenhouses, etc. with her partner.

After graduating from the University of Michigan in Physics, Margaret spent a couple of years as a computer programmer and systems engineer. After a brief stint as a stay-at-home mom, she started learning ancient Greek just for fun, and got hooked. She completed a PhD in Classics at the University of Washington, and got her first job at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Finding herself unhappy in an Ivy League environment, she moved to a liberal arts college where good teaching is valued, and has been happily teaching here for 13 years. She's currently chair of a large and somewhat fractious department, which she doesn't enjoy much, and looks forward to returning to full time teaching at the end of next year. In her spare time, if she can find any, she is an avid gardener and, like every ancient historian she's ever met, she enjoys reading detective stories.

Prof. Margaret L. Cook
Chair, Modern and Classical Languages
Saint John's University & College of Saint Benedict
Collegeville, MN 56321

polu te diapherein ou dei nomizein anthropou anthropon, kratiston de
einai hostis en tois anagkaiotatois paideuetai. "All men are created equal;
some just work harder in the preseason." -- Thucydides 1.84.4