Background
Hamel was born in 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hamel was born in 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut.
She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics with departmental and general honors. Hamel studied at Yale University and graduated with an Master of Arts and Master of Philisophy in classical languages and literatures in 1993. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1996, with the dissertation Athenian Strategoi: The Extent and Exercise of Authority in the Military Sphere, 501/0-322/1 three years later.
From 1998 to 2001 Hamel was Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University. Debra Hamel’s main topics are ancient Greek law and Greek military history. See has written several articles for the journal Military History Quarterly.