Faculty

Christopher G. Brown

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Greek poetry, drama, and religion; Pre-Socratics; Roman poetry

Kyle Gervais

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Classical Latin epic and lyric (literary interpretation and textual criticism), Late Antique and Medieval Latin literature, violence in the ancient world, Classical reception in popular culture, digital humanities

Elizabeth Greene

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Roman archaeology and social history, Roman provinces and frontiers, conquest and imperialism, cultural exchange, Roman military, women and families in the Roman world, Roman shoes and leather industries, Latin epigraphy.

Craig Harvey

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Roman archaeology, Roman provincial and frontier studies, the Roman East, imperialism and cultural exchange, ceramic building materials, baths and bathing, numismatics

David Lamari

Lecturer

Research Interests / Specializations: Imperial Latin Literature (especially that written under the Principates of Nero and Hadrian), Roman historiography and rhetoric.

Alexander Meyer

Associate Professor - Undergraduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Roman imperial history; Latin epigraphy; Travel and mobility in the ancient world; Identity in antiquity; Roman provincial studies

Debra Nousek

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Roman republican history; Greek and Latin historiography; Greek oratory, and numismatics

Kelly Olson

Professor - Graduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Roman society and culture (social attitudes, women and the family, sexuality, and slavery, clothing); Roman art and architecture; Latin historiography.

Randall Pogorzelski

Department Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Roman literature, especially Augustan and early imperial poetry; literary theory; classical reception.

Catherine Pratt

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Greek archaeology with a focus on the Aegean Bronze and Iron Ages; Mediterranean cultural interaction; Near Eastern and Egyptian archaeology; Ancient Greek economics, especially production and trade in oil and wine; ceramic analysis.

Bernd Steinbock

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Social Memory, Archaic and Classical Greek History, Greek and Roman Historiography, Classical Rhetoric and Oratory, Roman Republican History, Late Antiquity.

Charles Stocking

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Archaic and Classical Greek Literature especially Greek Epic; Greek Religion; Ancient Athletics; Gender and the Body in Greece and Rome; Classics and Critical Theory

Aara Suksi

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Greek literature and culture, Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek myth, and Gender in Ancient Greece

Diana Wood

Lecturer