Roman & Greek History. Caesar. Alexander the Great. Medieval Literature and Culture. Historiography. Latin meter.

• Survey of Greek History: Bronze Age to 323 B.C.E. (CLAS 100a)
  
• Topics in Greek and Roman History (CLAS 115b)
  
  Age of Alexander the Great
  Age of Pericles
  Foundations of the Roman Empire
  Greek Historiography
  The Greekness of Alexander
  Imperialism in Antiquity
  Roman Military History
  Women in the Ancient World
• Age of Caesar (CLAS 120a)
  
• Medieval Literature: A Millennium of God, Sex, and Death (CLAS 166a)
  
• Intermediate Ancient Greek (Literature) (GRK 30a)
  
• Intermediate Latin: Literature (LAT 30a)
  
• Roman Historians (LAT 118b)
  
• Medieval Latin (LAT 125a)
• Metamorphosis (USEM 8a)
• Going to Hell: Journeys to the Underworld (USEM 9b)

Hostages in Republican Rome. Washington: The Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005. URL: http://www.chs.harvard.edu/publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp.

"Introduction" to The Conquest of Gaul, by Julius Caesar, trans. by Rev. F. P. Long. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2005.

100 entries in Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, ed., The Encyclopedia of Military History: from 3500 B.C. to the Present, second revised edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1986.

Office: Rabb 138

Office Hours (Fall 2008): MW 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 1:00-3:30 p.m.; Th 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., and by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2190

Email: cwalker@brandeis.edu

Associate Professor Cheryl L. Walker is our Undergraduate Advising Head of the Classical Studies Department and our Ancient Historian. In many ways she is the department mainstay, providing home-baked treats, sage advice, and unfailing support to all our students for many long hours each week. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She wrote her dissertation on the taking of hostages in Rome, a work with the signal honor of being first in the new online series of books published by The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), a Washington, D.C. research institute affiliated with Harvard University. The book can be seen online at the CHS site: http://www.chs.harvard.edu/publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp. 

Her principal scholarly interests are ancient diplomatic practices, historiography, and the finest techniques of pedagogy.  She teaches the survey course in Greek history and topics courses in both Greek and Roman history (see individual topics listed above under Selected Courses) as well as two University Seminars in the Humanities (USEM 8a: "Metamorphosis" and USEM 9b: "Going to Hell: Journeys to the Underworld") per year. Additionally, she usually teaches at least one language course in either Greek or Latin. 

She won the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1992-1993.

Photograph of Cheryl Walker by Janet Barry.

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