| Benjamin Acosta-Hughes - bacosta@umich.edu |
| 2150 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0347 |
| Associate Professor of Greek & Latin |
| B.A. '87, Michigan; M.A. '90, Ph.D. '95, Berkeley |
| Special Interests: Hellenistic literature, archaic Greek lyric, Augustan poetry, Greco-Egyptian culture and society, Attic oratory and Greek prose style, Greek tragedy |
| Selected Publications: Polyeideia-The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition; Reading Callimachus (co-editor; forthcoming); Callimachus, Hipponax and the Persona of the Iambographer; The New Simonides and Theocritus (forthcoming) |
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| Paolo Asso - passo@umich.edu |
| 2029F Tisch Hall, (734) 764-01224 |
| Assistant Professor of Latin, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Laurea, '91, I.U.O. Napoli (Italy); MA '00, Ph.D. '02, Princeton |
| Special Interests:
Lucan; Greek and Latin Epic; Latin Poetry; Latin Literature of the Early Empire
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| Selected Publications:
Articles on Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus. Book projects: A Commentary (in progress) on Lucan, Bellum Civile, Book IV; A monograph (in progress) on The Idea of Africa in the Literary Imagination of the Romans. |
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| Sara Ahbel-Rappe - rappe@umich.edu |
| 2029G Tisch Hall, (734) 936-6096 |
| Associate Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '81, M.A. '85, Ph.D. '91, Berkeley |
| Special Interests: classical and Hellenistic philosophy; neo-Platonism; philosophy of language |
| Selected Publications: Reading Neoplatonism; Translation of Damascius' Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming); Blackwell Companion to Socrates (co-editor; forthcoming); articles and chapters on Socrates, Neoplatonism, Cynics, and late antique religion |
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| Netta Berlin - berlin@umich.edu |
| G231D Angell Hall, (734) 615-0667 |
| Lecturer III |
| B.A. '84, Wellesley; M.A. '89, Ph.D. '94, Michigan |
| Special Interests: Latin literature, epic poetry, Augustan poetry, literary theory |
| Publication: "War and Rememberance: Aeneid 12.554-60 and Aeneas' Memory of Troy" |
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| H.D. Cameron - hdcamero@umich.edu |
| 2176 Angell Hall, (734) 764-7505 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin (Director, Great Books Program) |
| A.B. '56, The University of Michigan; Ph.D. '62, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Greek drama, linguistics, Greek orators, Plautus |
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| Anne Carson - carsona@umich.edu |
| 3143 Angell Hall, (734) 763-2265 |
| Professor of Classical Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature (Department of Comparative Literature); Professor of English (Department of English Language and Literature) |
| B.A.'74, M.A. '75, Ph.D. '81, University of Toronto |
| Special Interests: ancient Greek literature, poetry, critical theory, translation |
| Selected Publications: The Beauty of the Husband, Sophokles Elektra: Translation with Commentary and Notes, Men in the Off Hours, Autobiography of Red |
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| Beau David Case - classicslibrarian@umich.edu |
| 2167A Angell Hall, (734) 764-0306 |
| Field Librarian for Classical Studies; Librarian, Kelsey Museum |
| B.A. '90, UCLA; M.A. '94, Indiana University; M.L.S. '95, Indiana |
| Special Interests: Bibliography and research methodology; library collection development; international librarianship |
| Selected Publications: "The Acquisition of Faculty Publications at their University Libraries"; "Love's Labour's Lost: The Failure of Traditional Selection Practice in the Acquisition of Humanities Electronic Texts"; "Strengthening Modern Greek Collections: Building US-Greek Library Partnerships"; "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: A Note on Catullus 13" |
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| Ruth Caston - rcaston@umich.edu |
| 2029B Tisch Hall, (734) 764-1366 |
| Assistant Professor of Latin |
| B.A. '88, Cornell; M.A. '90, University of Texas-Austin; Ph.D. 2000, Brown |
| Special Interests: Latin literature, esp. Augustan poetry, the passions and literature, ancient rhetoric, comedy and satire |
| Selected Publications: "The Fall of the Curtain: Hor. S. 2.8)"; "Rivalling the Shield: Propertius 4.6"; "Love as Illness: poets and philosophers on romantic love" |
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| Victor Caston - vcaston@umich.edu |
| 2203 Angell Hall,
(734) 764-6285 |
| Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies |
| B.A. '84, Yale; M.A. '85, Ph.D. '92, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Special interests: Greek and Roman philosophy, especially philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology; Medieval philosophy; Austrian philosophy. |
| Selected publications: "The Spirit and the Letter: Aristotle on Perception"; "Aristotle on Consciousness"; "Something and Nothing: The Stoics on Concepts and Universals"; "Aristotle and the Problem of Intentionality"; "Epiphenomenalisms, Ancient and Modern." |
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| Derek B. Collins - dbcollin@umich.edu |
| 2140 Angell Hall, (734) 764-8581 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin |
| Assistant Dean 2121 LSA , 734-647-2115 |
| B.A. '87, M.A. '91, UCLA; Ph.D. '97, Harvard |
| Special Interests: archaic Greek poetry, Latin literature, history of the classical tradition, religion, magic |
| Selected Publications: Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry; Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry, "Hesiod and the Divine Voice of the Muses", "On the Aesthetics of the Deceiving Self in Nietzsche, Pindar, and Theognis"; "Improvisation in Rhapsodic Performance"; "Theoris of Lemnos and the Criminalization of Magic in Fourth-Century Athens"; "Homer and Rhapsodic Competition in Performance"; "Reading the Birds: Oionomanteia in Early Epic"; "Nature, Cause, and Agency in Greek Magic" |
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| Basil Dufallo - dufallo@umich.edu |
| 2130 Tisch Hall, (734) 615-0925 |
| Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature |
| B.A. '92, Yale; M.A., Ph.D. '99, UCLA |
| Special Interests:Latin literature, Roman culture, critical/cultural theory, postclassical Latin |
| Selected Publications: The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2007); ed. with Peggy McCracken, Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (2006), "The Roman Elegist's Dead Lover or The Drama of the Desiring Subject"; "Words Born and Made: Horace's Defense of Neologisms and the Cultural Poetics of Latin"; "Propertian Elegy as 'Restored Behavior': Evoking Cynthia and Cornelia"; "Appius indignation: Gossip, tradition, and performance in Republican Rome"; " Satis / satura : Reconsidering the 'programmatic intent' of Horace, Satires 1.1"; "Les spectres du passé récent dans le Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino de Cicéron." |
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| Henry Dyson - hdyson@umich.edu |
| 2215 Angell Hall, (734) 763-
2124 |
| Research Investigator and Intermittent Lecturer in Philosophy and Research investigator and Intermittent Lecturer in Classical Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Steven J.R. Ellis - stellis@umich.edu |
| 2124 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6101 |
| Lecturer |
| Ph.D. '05, Sydney |
| Special interests: Roman urbanism and social history; ancient architecture; Greek and Roman art and archaeology; iconography of daily life; GIS and other technological applications for the study of the ancient world; and the excavation of complex urban sites. Project Director for the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia www.stanford.edu/group/pompeii |
| Select publications: The distribution of bars at Pompeii: archaeological, spatial and viewshed analyses; The Pompeian Bar: archaeology and the role of food and drink outlets in an ancient community; Extracting the social relevance of artefact distribution in Roman military forts (with P.M. Allison, A.S. Fairbairn, and C.W. Blackall); New Excavations at VIII.7.1-15, Pompeii: A brief synthesis of results from the 2005 season (with G. Devore). |
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| Sara L. Forsdyke - forsdyke@umich.edu |
| 2144 Angell Hall or (734) 936-6098 |
| Associate Professor of Greek and Latin |
| A.B. '90, Harvard; M.A. '91, Queen's; M.A. '94, Ph.D. '97, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Greek historiography, Greek political thought and ideology, Greek orators, Greek law, Greek history |
| Selected Publications: Exile, Ostracism and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece; "Revelry and Riot in Archaic Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal?"; "Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse between History and Archaeology"; "Athenian Democratic Ideology and Herodotus' Histories"; "From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again: The Thrasybulus Anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle's Politics" |
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| Benjamin W. Fortson IV - fortsonb@umich.edu |
| 2029H Tisch Hall, (734) 764-1579 |
| Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical Linguistics |
| B.A. '89, Yale; Ph.D. '96, Harvard |
| Special Interests: early Greek and Latin, history of Greek and Latin, comparative Indo-European linguistics, metrics and poetics, Roman comedy |
Publications:The Prosody of Plautine Latin: Linguistic and Metrical Studies (forthcoming); Indo-European Language and Culture:
An Introduction; "On the contraction of est in Plautine Latin"; "Linguistic and cultural notes on Latin Iunius and related topics";
"The origin of the Latin future active participle" (forthcoming) |
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| Bruce W. Frier - bwfrier@umich.edu |
2119 Angell Hall or 435 Hutchins Hall
(734) 763-2197 or (734) 936-3022 |
| Professor of Classics; Henry King Ransom Professor of Law (Law School) |
| A.B. '64, Trinity; Fellow '68, American Academy in Rome; Ph.D. '70, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Roman law, Roman social and economic history, Hellenistic and Roman historiography and political science, ancient architecture, and numismatics |
| Selected Publications: Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition; Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome; The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's pro Caecina; A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict; The Demography of Roman Egypt (with Roger Bagnall); The Census Register P.Oxy. 984: The Reverse of Pindar's Paeans (with Roger Bagnall and Ian Rutherford); A Casebook on Roman Family Law (with Thomas McGinn); The Modern Law of Contract (with James J. White); translation of Digest Book 19; articles on Roman Law, history, historiography, numismatics, and archaeology |
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| Traianos Gagos - traianos@umich.edu |
| 2029F Tisch Hall or 807 Hatcher, (734) 647-3290 or (734) 764-9369 |
| Professor of Papyrology and Greek; Archivist, Papyrology Collection, University Library; Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum |
| B.A. '83, Ioannina; Ph.D. '87, Durham |
| Special Interests: Greek papyrology and palaeography; social, economic and cultural history of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt and Near East; papyrology and archaeology; computer technology and the study of the ancient world. Co-founder and co-editor, New Texts from Ancient Cultures; Director, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Michigan and central sections; Immediate Past President, American Society of Papyrologists |
| Selected Publications:The Evolution of the English Bible (interactive CD; 1999 Best Book Award, University of Michigan Press); Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas (co-editor); Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (co-editor); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 61 (with M. Haslam and N.Lewis); Settling a Dispute: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt;
"Material Culture and Texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Creating Context, Debating Meaning"; "Negotiating Money and Space in Sixth Century Petra"; "The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection: Current Trends and Future Perspectives"; "The Emperor Aurelian and the Corrector Firmus in a Private Context"; "Documenting the Rural Economy of Egypt: Three Byzantine Papyri from Alabastrine"; "P. Mich. inv. 4922: Xenophon and an Unknown Christian Text"; "Early Roman Texts from Oxyrhynchus or Oxyrhynchite Loan Contracts and Egyptian Marriage"; "Scanning the Past: A Modern Approach to Ancient Culture" |
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| K.A. Garbrah - kagarbra@umich.edu |
| 2155 Angell Hall, (734) 764-6218 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '61, London; Dip. Indo-European Comparative Philology '63, Oxon; B.Litt. '66, Oxon; Dr. Phil. '72, Cologne |
| Special Interests: Greek and Latin languages; comparative philology; epigraphy; early Latin tragedy |
| Selected Publications: A Grammar of the Ionic Inscriptions from Erythrae; articles on the language and scholia of Homer, including "A Linguistic Analysis of Selected Portions of the Homeric Odyssey"; other articles on the language and text of Greek inscriptions, and on Terence |
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| David Halperin - halperin@umich.edu |
| 3056 Tisch Hall |
| W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English, Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies
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| Sharon C. Herbert - sherbert@umich.edu |
| 249 Kelsey, (734) 763-3559 |
| Professor of Classical Archaeology & Greek; Director, Kelsey Museum |
| A.B. '66, Stanford; Fellow '69-'71, American School of Classical Studies in Athens; Ph.D. '72, Stanford |
| Special Interests: Greek archaeology, vase painting, Hellenistic Near East |
| Selected Publications: Tel Anafa I, Final Report on Ten Years of Excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman Settlement in Northern Israel; Corinth VII, 4: The Red-figured Pottery; articles on excavations in Israel, Greece, and Egypt |
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| Richard Janko - rjanko@umich.edu |
| 2123 Angell Hall, (734) 764-1197 |
| Professor of Classical Studies; Department of Classical Studies |
| B.A. '76, M.A., Ph.D., '80, Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Special Interests: Greek language and literature, especially Linear B, Homer and oral poetry, ancient literary criticism, comedy, Orphism and Greek religion, ancient manuscripts, textual criticism |
| Selected Publications: Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns; Aristotle on Comedy; Aristotle, Poetics; The Iliad, A Commentary, Vol. 4; Philodemus, On Poems Book 1; The Derveni papyrus: an interim text;Empedocles, On Nature I: a New Reconstruction |
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| Vassilios Lambropoulos - vlambrop@umich.edu |
| 2152 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0126 |
C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies; Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature |
| B.A. '75, Athens; Ph.D. '80, Thessaloniki |
| Special Interests:
modern Greek culture; the ancients and the moderns; ethics and politics; tragedy and the tragic
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| Selected Publications:
The Tragic Idea; The Rise of Eurocentrism; Literature as National Institution; co-editor of The Text and Its Margins and Twentieth-Century Literary Theory; editor of South Atlantic Quarterly issue on "Ethical Politics." |
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| Artemis Leontis - aleontis@umich.edu |
| 2172 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6099 |
Associate Professor of Modern Greek &
Coordinator of the Modern Greek Program |
| B.A. '79, Oberlin; M.A. '84, Ph.D. '91, Ohio State |
| Special Interests: comparative literature, especially classics and modern literatures, modern Greek literature, language, and culture; diaspora studies, including Greek Americans |
| Selected Publications: Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland; Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion; Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives (co-editor) |
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| Donka Markus - markusdd@umich.edu |
| 2143A Angell Hall, (734) 615-3534 |
| Lecturer in Classical Studies, College of Literature, Science and Arts |
| B.A. '82, M.A. '88, Sofia; M.A. '92, Wayne State; Ph.D. '97, Michigan |
| Special Interests: oral performance of literature in Rome; Latin pedagogy; teaching with technology; reading theory |
| Selected Publications: "Performing the Book: The Recital of Epic in 1st Century C.E. Rome"; "Transfiguring Heroism: Nisus and Euryalus in Statius' Thebaid"; "Old Wine in New Skins: Visual Codes for Teaching Sentence-Structure in Latin" |
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| Lisa Nevett - lcnevett@umich.edu |
| 2131 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0112 |
| Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology; Assistant Professor of History of Art (Dept. of History of Art) |
| B.A. '87, M.Phil. '88, Ph.D. '93, Cambridge |
| Special Interests: archaeology and iconography of domestic space in the Greek and Roman worlds |
| Selected Publications: House and Society in the Ancient Greek World ; Ancient Greek Houses and Households (co-ed.) |
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| Dirk Obbink - dobbink@umich.edu |
| 2151 Angell Hall, (734) 764-4499 |
| Lecturere in Classical Studies, College of Literature, Science and Arts |
| B.A. '78 Nebraska; Ph.D. '87 Stanford |
| Special Interests: literary papyrology, lost books, fragmentary sources, Hellenistic philosophy, Lucretius and poetae docti, Greek lyric poetry, literacy |
| Selected Publications: Philodemus On Piety Part 1: Critical Text with Commentary |
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| Panagiotis Pafilis - pafman@umich.edu |
2031 Tisch Hall , (734) 764-0112
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| Lecturer, Modern Greek Program,Department of Classical Studies |
| Ph.D. University of Athens, 2003 |
| Special Interests: modern Greek language and culture, environmental and evolutionary physiology, adaptations in Mediterranean type ecosystems. |
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| James I. Porter - jport@umich.edu |
| 2029E Tisch Hall, (734) 936-6102 |
| Professor of Greek, Latin and Comparative Literature |
| B.A. '77, Swarthmore; M.A. '79, Ph.D. '86, Berkeley |
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| David S. Potter - dsp@umich.edu |
| 2127 Angell Hall, (734) 936-2249 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin |
| A.B. '79, Harvard; D.Phil '84, Oxford |
| Special Interests: Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek and Latin historiography and epigraphy, Roman public entertainment |
| Selected Publications: Literary Texts and the Roman Historian; Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire (co-editor);Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire; Prophets and Emperors: Humans and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius;
The Roman Empire at Bay; A Companion to the Roman Empire; articles on textual criticism, Greek and Roman history and epigraphy |
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| Johanna H. Prins - yprins@umich.edu |
| 3184 Angell Hall, (734) 647-7674 |
| Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies (Associate Professor of English) |
| Ph.D. '91, Princeton |
| Special Interests: Nineteenth-century poetry; history and theory of lyric; translation and reception of classics; comparative literature |
| Selected Publications: Victorian Sappho; Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Greek Translations (volume X co-editor); Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry; The Defiant Muse: Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems (co-editor and translator); "Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters"; "Sappho's Afterlife in Translation"; "Sappho Doubled: Michael Field"; "Aeschylus' Furies and their Binding Song"; "Browning's Agamemnon" |
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| Christopher Ratté |
| Associate Professor of Archaeology |
| 2132 Angell Hall, (734)
936-3888
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B.A. '81, Harvard, M.A. '84, UC Berkeley, Ph.D. '89, UC Berkeley |
| Special interests: Classical Archaeology, especially Greek architecture and urbanism, archaeology of Turkey. |
| Selected publications: Aphrodisias Papers 4 (ed. with R.R.R. Smith, forthcoming);“The Urban Development of Aphrodisias in the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods;” Lydian Architecture (forthcoming). |
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| Joseph D. Reed - josephdr@umich.edu |
| 2178 Angell Hall, (734) 936-3887 |
| Associate Professor of Greek and Latin |
| B.A. '87, Yale; A.M. '91, Ph.D. '93, Stanford |
| Special Interests: Augustan poetry, Hellenistic poetry, Adonis cult |
Selected Publications: Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid; Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses 10-12 in preparation; Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis; "Wilfred Owen's Adonis;"
"Anchises Reading Aeneas Reading Marcellus;" "Ovid's Elegy on Tibullus and its Models;" "The Sexuality of Adonis" |
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| Deborah Pennell Ross - dpross@umich.edu |
| 2147 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0357 |
| Lecturer IV |
| A.B. '76, A.M. '78, A.M. '79, Ph.D. '87, Michigan |
| Special Interests: Latin pedagogy; Latin linguistics; Latin literature |
| Publications: "The Linguistic Perspective" (with G.M. Knudsvig); "Anaphors and Antecedents in Narrative Text"; "The Role of Displacement in Narrative Prose" |
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| Mira Seo - jmseo@umich.edu |
| 2029J Tisch Hall, (734) 764-1224 |
| Assistant Professor |
| B.A. Swarthmore '95, B.A. Christ Church, Oxford '98, M.A., Ph.D.Princeton, '04 |
| Special interests: Ovid and post-Ovidian epic, ancient literary criticism and culture, Hellenistic poetry, characterization and the self in literature and rhetoric, genres in literature and popular culture. |
| Forthcoming publications: "The Purloined Letter: Plagiarism and Poetic Identity in Martial and Others"; "Viewing the Past in Alias: Antiquity, Divinity and Prophecy." |
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| Ruth Scodel - rscodel@umich.edu |
| 2156 Angell Hall, (734) 764-0360 |
| Professor of Greek and Latin, Chair, Department of Classical Studies |
| A.B. '73, Berkeley; Ph.D. '78, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Homer, tragedy, ancient narrative, Classics and Cinema |
| Selected Publications: The Trojan Trilogy of Euripides; Sophocles: Credible Impossibilities; Listening to Homer; articles on Greek poetry; editor of Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA), 1986-91 |
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| Gina M. Soter - soter@umich.edu |
| 2029B Tisch Hall; 106 Greene, East Quad (Residential College) |
| (734) 936-6119 or (734) 647-4371 |
| Lecturer IV |
| B.A. '84, Washington; M.A. '87, Ph.D. '93, Michigan |
| Special Interests: Greek and Roman theater; classical tradition; religion in ancient Greece and Rome; women and gender in classical antiquity; pedagogy of Greek and Latin |
| Selected Publications: Euripides: Helen (translation; forthcoming) |
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| Lauren Talalay - talalay@umich.edu |
| Kelsey Museum, (734) 647-0441 |
| Associate Director, Kelsey Museum; Curator, Kelsey Museum;Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology |
| B.A. '71, New York; Ph.D. '83, Indiana |
| Special Interests: Aegean prehistory, gender, neolithic figurines |
| Selected Publications: Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece;
In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum (co-authored); Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline (co-edited), "A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory"; ""Sexual Ambiguity in Early-Middle Cypriot Plank Figures"; "The Gendered Sea: Iconography, Gender, and Mediterranean Prehistory"; "The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising"; "Heady Business: Skulls, Heads, and Decapitation in Neolithic Anatolia and Greece" |
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| Nicola Terrenato |
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| Associate Professor of Art & Archaeology |
| 2128 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6097 |
| B.A. '88 Rome , Ph.D. '94 Pisa |
| Special Interests: Roman Republican Archaeology, Roman Imperialism, Early Rome, Field survey methods. |
| Selected Publications: Italy and the west: comparative issues in Romanization (co-editor); Articulating local histories: domination and resistance under the expanding Roman Republic (co-editor); Archeologia Teorica (editor); Volterra. Il teatro e le terme (co-editor); Introduzione all'archeologia dei paesaggi (co-author); "The Auditorium site and the origins of the Roman villa;" "Tam firmum municipium: the Romanization of Volaterrae and its cultural implications;" "The deceptive archetype. Roman colonialism and post-colonial thought;" "Ancestor Cults: the perception of ancient Rome in Italian culture;" "The cultural implications of the Roman conquest." |
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| Raymond Van Dam - rvandam@umich.edu |
| 1029 Tisch Hall, (734) 647-4868 |
| Professor of History (Department of History); Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies; (Director, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History) |
| A.B. '71, Calvin; M.A., Ph.D. '77, Cambridge |
| Special Interests: Later Roman empire, religion and society, the Greek East under Roman rule |
| Selected Publications: Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul; Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul; Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia; Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia (forthcoming); Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia (forthcoming) |
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| Arthur Verhoogt - verhoogt@umich.edu |
| 2124 Angell Hall, (734) 936-6101 |
| Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek |
| M.A. '90, Ph.D. '97, Leiden |
| Special Interests: Greek papyrology; socio-economic, administrative and cultural history of Greek and Roman Egypt; Fayum villages; onomastics |
| Selected Publications: Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers (2005); Documents from Berenike Volume II: Texts from the 1999-2001 Seasons, with Roger Bagnall and Christina Helms (2005); Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden, 11. Band, with H.-A. Rupprecht (2002). |
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| James Boyd White - jbwhite@umich.edu |
| 332 Hutchins, (734) 936-2989 |
| L. Hart Wright Professor of Law (Law School); Professor of English Language and Literature (Department of English Language and Literature); Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies |
| A.B. '60, Amherst; A.M. '61, LL.B. '64, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Greek literature, law, and rhetoric |
| Selected Publications: The Legal Imagination; When Words Lose Their Meaning; Herakles' Bow; Justice as Translation; Acts of Hope; This Book of Starres, The Edge of Meaning; articles on law, rhetoric, and classical and English literature (including Homer, Sophocles, and Plato) |
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| Associated Faculty |
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| Elaine K. Gazda - gazda@umich.edu |
| Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology |
| Department of History of Art |
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| Janet E. Richards - jerichar@umich.edu |
| Assistant Professor of Egyptology |
| Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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| Margaret Cool Root - mcroot@umich.edu |
| Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Art
and Archaeology |
| Department of History of Art |
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| Arlene W. Saxonhouse - awsaxon@umich.edu |
| Professor of Political Science and Women's
Studies |
| Department of Political Studies |
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| Thelma K. Thomas - tkthomas@umich.edu |
| Associate Professor of History of Art |
| Department of History of Art |
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| Terry G. Wilfong - twilfong@umich.edu |
| Assistant Professor of Egyptology |
| Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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| Emeriti |
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| Ludwig Koenen - koenen@umich.edu |
| H.C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Papyrology |
| Dr. Phil. '56, Dr. habil. '69, Cologne |
| Special Interests: papyrology, Greek and Latin literature, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, patristics, the history of religion; co-founder and co-editor of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Zeitschrift für Religionsgeschichte, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, and New Texts from Ancient Cultures; President, Association Internationale de Papyrology; past President, American Philological Association |
| Selected Publications: Didymos der Blinde; Eine agonistiche Inschrift aus ƒgypten und frühptolemäische Königsfeste; Der Kölner Mani Codex; Three Rolls of the Early Septuagint; The Oracle of the Potter; "Manichaean Apocolypticism"; "Manichaean Dualism"; and other publications on literary and documentary papyri (including the carbonized Petra scrolls), Hellenistic literature, and on the adaptation of Egyptian ideology by the Ptolemies |
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| John G. Pedley - jpedley@umich.edu |
| 2127 Angell Hall, (734) 936-2249 |
| Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Greek |
| A.B. '54, A.M. '59, Cambridge; Ph.D. '65, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Greek and Roman art and archaeology, Greek sculpture, art and archaeology of Asia Minor and South Italy |
| Selected Publications: Ancient Literary Sources on Sardis; Greek Sculpture of the Archaic Period: The Island Workshops; Paestum: Greeks and Romans in Southern Italy; Greek Art and Archaeology; articles on Greek sculpture and vase painting |
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| Charles Witke - frchas@umich.edu |
| 2127 Angell Hall, (734) 936-2249 |
| Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin |
| A.B. '53, UCLA; M.A. '60, Harvard; Fellow '62, American Academy in Rome; Ph.D. '62, Harvard |
| Special Interests: Catullus, Augustan poetry, Roman satire, medieval Latin literature, religion, Erasmus |
| Selected Publications: Enarratio Catulliana; Latin Satire: The Structure of Persuasion; Numen Litterarum: The Old and the New in Latin Poetry from Constantine to Gregory the Great; Horace's Roman Odes: A Critical Examination; articles on classical and medieval Latin literature |
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