To launch her new book, Magical Habits, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Monica Huerta is hosting Personal Limits, a virtual conversation series about contemporary experiments in personal writing.

This third installment is a conversation with Dan-El Padilla Peralta, associate professor of classics at Princeton University. He is an important scholar of the Middle Roman Republic and a forceful voice challenging the ways in which the field of classics has contributed to Western constructions of whiteness. He his publications include Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic (Princeton University Press. 2020) and the memoir Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin Books, 2015).