Bruce Elliot Donovan (March 8, 1937 – July 11, 2011) was a U.S. academic, university administrator and leading authority on Greek papyrology. He held the titles of Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the college at Brown University. He also served for many years as chairman of Brown's Classics Department and as president of Brown's Phi Beta Kappa chapter.Providence Journal, Feb 26, 1985
Donovan graduated from Brown University in 1959 and received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale in 1965. He served as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies.Romer, Karen T. Humanity and Humor. He joined the Brown faculty in 1965. His writings included Studies In The Literary Papyri Of Oxyrhynchus (1964) and Euripides Papyri (1969), as well as fifty original monographs in his field. He also was a recognized authority on Homeric fragments.The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. A Homer Fragment in The Library of Congress, Volume 5, Issue: 1, March 1968, pp. 37-39
Donovan later became an authority on chemical dependency on college campuses.Flint, Anthony. Boston Globe, November 12, 1990.Boston Globe, March 17, 2002Chemical Dependency, Denial, and the Academic Lifestyle, Academe, Vol. 76, No. 1, Jan. - Feb. 1990 In 1977, he was named Brown University's first Dean of Chemical Dependency.Greenagel, Frank L., Jr. "The History of Collegiate Recovery Programs." Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, October 12, 2016.
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