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Department ofClassics and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies

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Department Head

Tawny Holm
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Head, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies & Jewish Studies
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Research Interests: Aramaic language and literature; Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near Eastern history and religion
Tawny Holm

Faculty

Kristen Baxter
Associate Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Kristen Baxter
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Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Research Interests: Religion, ritual, and magic in Late Antiquity; Early Christianity; Roman and Early Islamic Egypt; Nag Hammadi, Manichaean, and Coptic studies
Michael Beshay
Jason Brooks
Lecturer in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Jason Brooks
Daniel Falk
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Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies
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Research Interests: Ancient Judaism; Dead Sea Scrolls; Early Christianity, and especially the development of prayer and liturgy, the interpretation of scripture, and the formation of religious communities
Daniel Falk
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Associate Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Michael Goyette
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Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Taylor Gray
Mathias Hanses
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Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs Endowed Fellow in the Humanities
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies
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Research Interests: Latin literature; Race, status, and difference in the ancient Roman world; Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome/Black Classicism; Reception Studies
Mathias Hanses
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Erin M. Hanses
Ann Killebrew
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Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology
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Research Interests: Archaeology of the Levant; Bronze and Iron Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean; Phoenicians in the Mediterranean; Ancient ceramic studies; Roman and Byzantine Palestine; Heritage studies; Landscape Archaeology
Ann E. Killebrew
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Samuel Kurland
Laura Marshall
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Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Research Interests: Greek Literature, especially Hellenistic poetry; Greek Philosophy; Translation studies
Laura Marshall
Christopher Moore
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Professor of Ancient Philosophy
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Research Interests: Ancient philosophy, Classical Greek intellectual and cultural history, early Greek prose
Christopher Moore
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Professor of Ancient Greek History and Archaeology
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Research Interests: Greek history, historiography, epigraphy, and archaeology; ancient warfare; Anatolian history and archaeology; Greek and Anatolian religions
Mark Munn
Jake Nabel
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Tombros Early Career Professor of Classical Studies and Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Research Interests: Roman History; Pre-Islamic Iranian history; Ancient interstate relations
Jake Nabel
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Associate Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Thaddeus Olson
Anna Peterson
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Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Research Interests: Second Sophistic and Imperial-era Greek literature and culture; Landscape and environment in ancient literature; Gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture
Anna Peterson
Gonzalo Rubio
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Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests: Ancient Near East; Ancient Mesopotamia; Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Old Persian; Comparative Semitics.
Gonzalo Rubio
Jennifer Singletary
Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Jennifer E. Singletary
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Hannah Smagh
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Lecturer in Religious Studies
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Michael Stahl
Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Michael J. Stahl
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Assistant Teaching Professor
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Rebecca Wang
Stephen Wheeler
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Associate Professor of Classics
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Research Interests: Greek and Roman Epic; Ovid and his premodern reception; Claudia; Medieval Latin commentaries on school authors
Stephen Wheeler

Postdoctoral Scholars

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Affiliate and Courtesy Appointments

Charles E. Jones
Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities
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Charles (Chuck) E. Jones
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Assistant Director of Jewish Studies
Assistant Research Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Robert Jones
Michele Kennerly
Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Michele Kennerly
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Senior Director of University Health Services
Affiliate Clinical Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Bruce H. Kraut
Michael Kulikowski
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Michael Kulikowski
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External Affiliate, Athens program lecturer
David Scahill

Emeriti and Active Retired Faculty

Pamela Cole
Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Pamela Cole
Mary Lou Munn
Emerita Associate Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Mary Lou Zimmerman Munn
Donald Redford
Emeritus Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History
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Donald Redford

Staff

Kristi Brinker
Graduate Staff Assistant
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Kristi Brinker
Lynn Carey
Administrative Assistant - Senior Support
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Lynn Carey
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Front Desk Coordinator
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Kaycie Gallaher
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Academic Advisor
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Sarah McDonald
Lynn Monoski
Administrative Coordinator
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Lynn Monoski
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Events Coordinator
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Anna Zuckerman