Faculty
Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity; material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East; Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean world; foodways in late antiquity.
Current fieldwork with the Monastic Archaeology Field School in Newburgh Scotland an archaeological project between the University of St. Andrews and Brandeis.
Expertise: Early Imperial Latin literature, gender and power in the Ancient World, Roman Britain, Roman exemplarity
Expertise: Latin literature and cultural contexts; Latin prose of the late republic and early principate (oratory and rhetoric, historiography, grammatical tradition and ancient etymology, technical and encyclopedic literature); Latin pseudigraphical literature; Roman geography; Roman transportation
Expertise: Classical and Hellenistic Greek history, Greek epigraphy, the ancient economy and its intersection with Greek religion, Hellenistic Delos, Greek and Roman sport, digital humanities.
Expertise: Archaeology of pre-Roman and Roman Italy, especially Etruria; Phoenician and Punic archaeology; social and gender identities in the ancient Mediterranean
Current fieldwork with the Poggio Civitate Excavation Project and the Pantelleria Project
Expertise: Classical and Near Eastern archaeology, ceramic analysis, digital humanities, late antique economy, the Roman army, and archaeological theory
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Expertise: Greek sacred landscapes; nature; memory; sensory experiences; ancient travel writers and geographers; tourism and pilgrimages
Honorary Visiting Scholar
Affiliated Faculty
Cooperating Faculty
Expertise: Maya, archaeology of complex societies, landscape
Expertise: Bioarchaeology, complex societies, writing systems, Mesoamerica
Faculty Emeriti
Expertise: Christian studies
Expertise: Latin and Greek language and literature, classical myth and religion
Expertise: Roman and Greek art and archaeology; Latin language and literature; mythology in Greek and Roman art; Roman social history and daily life
Expertise: Medieval art and architecture
Expertise: Greek and Latin language and literature, with special interest in Greek epic, lyric and tragic poetry, the historical study of Ancient Greek language, and the comparative study of mythology and religion
Expertise: Roman and Greek history