Shadi Bartsch (born March 17, 1966) is an American historian and professor of classics at the University of Chicago.[1] She has previously held professorships at the University of California, Berkeley[2] and Brown University where she was the professor of classics from 2008 to 2009.[3] From 2015 to 2024 she was the Director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (IFK) at the University of Chicago. [4]