Life and Career
Ahl studied classics at Cambridge University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees, and at the University of Texas, where he received his doctorate. He taught at the Texas Military Institute, Trinity University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Utah before joining the Cornell faculty in 1971. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching from Cornell in 1977, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1989-90 and was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in 1996. He has served as director of Cornell Abroad in Greece.
Ahl is active in theater in Ithaca, including Cornell Savoyards' Gilbert and Sullivan productions.
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