{"id":323,"date":"2014-06-12T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/grs\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=323"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:12:30","slug":"roland-jeffreys","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grs\/people\/roland-jeffreys\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2020 Roland Jeffreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Roland Jeffreys was born and brought up in Wales, and attended university in England (University College London) and Canada (McMaster). Early in his career he taught at the University of Krakow (Poland), University of London, and St. Patrick&#8217;s College (University of Ottawa). He was a full-time faculty member at Carleton from 1967 -2005, and served as Chair of the Classics department\u00a0twice, as Graduate and Undergraduate Supervisor of Classics, and as the Director of the School of Languages, Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies. 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