Karen Lee Singh, PhD

Biography: Karen Lee Singh taught at the University of Wisconsin and retired from Florida State University in 2006 where she also taught in the Florida State University School. Singh received a BA, MA, and PhD in classics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Singh was three times named the N.H.S. Teacher of the Year, the DeMolay Teacher of the Year for Tallahassee (1980), the Florida Latin Teacher of the Year (1985), and the Irwing Wershow Award for Lifetime Achievement (1999). She has regularly been invited to present workshops and papers to classics groups. Singh served as president of the Florida Foreign Language Association and first vice-president of the Classical Association of Florida. Singh served on the AP® Development Committee and on the National Committee on Standards for Teaching Latin and Greek. She contributed two chapters to Paul MacKendrick's The Philosophical Books of Cicero (Palgrave Macmillan, 1989). Singh is coauthor with LeaAnn Osburn of Vergil: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader, Teacher's Guide (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2010).