David “Dave” Camden

David Camden is the Alexander Smith Cochran Chair in Greek Language and Literature and serves as the head debate coach. He supports students in the Classical Honors Program and lives with his wife and children in Brewster House.

David graduated summa cum laude in Classics from Harvard University, and he received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2016. Before coming to St. Paul’s School, Dr. Camden taught for a year at Emory University and for two years at the Gunston School, an independent high school on Maryland’s eastern shore.

In 2008, he contributed to the digitization of the Bodleian Euclid. His book, “The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece: First Principles in Early Greek Medicine,” will be published by Cambridge University Press in June of 2023.