Harriet Fertik's research focuses on literature and political thought in the early Roman empire and on classical reception. Her first book, The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) explored how Romans used the world of the house to interpret and interrogate the role of the emperor. She co-edited (with Mathias Hanses) Above the Veil: Revisiting the Classicism of W. E. B. Du Bois, a special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2019).  Her recent publications include "Women’s Work: Exploring a Tradition of Inquiry with W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Aristotle” (The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy 2024), "Antiquity, Tradition, and Anti-Blackness in Hannah Arendt’s Public Sphere" (TAPA 2024), and "W. E. B. Du Bois's Universal History in Black Folk Then and Now (1939)" (Classical Receptions Journal 2024). Her current book project, Traditions Lost and Found: W. E. B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Classical Antiquity, explores the complex triangulation between Black Americans, German Jews, and Greco-Roman antiquity through Du Bois’s and Arendt’s writing and the powerful but ambivalent relationship they each had with the classics. Fertik is also working on a study of depictions of Jews in the city of Rome in Latin literature after 70 CE.