Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies

• 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,

• Expertise: Classical philology. Homeric epic and the relationship between the epics and mythopoetic traditions; "Odyssey" and modern psychology; pedagogy and Homeric epic; leadership in the Greek and Roman world.

• Expertise: Early Imperial Latin literature, gender and power in the Ancient World, Roman Britain, Roman exemplarity

• 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.

• Visit the Birsama Archaeological Project website.

Rebecca Sausville is a cultural historian who works on the intersection of literary, civic and professional endeavors in imperial Greece and Asia Minor. Her current research centers on professional activities and knowledge production as sources of civic and urban identity, with broader interests in labor valuation, literary canonization, civic utility and intellectual competition. She is almost always game to discuss the Greek east and related topics, and to shoot the breeze about professionalization ancient and modern, particularly with regards to the modern role of public humanities within, adjacent to, and outside the academy. Originally from outside Washington, D.C., she holds a BA from Fordham College at Lincoln Center, an MA from the University of Kentucky, and will soon hold a PhD from New York University.

• Expertise: Imperial Greek and Latin historiography; Regal Rome; Late Antiquity; Julian the Apostate; Greek Declamation; Reception of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium in heavy metal music.

• Expertise: Medieval history

• Expertise: Maya, archaeology of complex societies, landscape

• Expertise: Medieval art and architecture

• Expertise: Bioarchaeology, complex societies, writing systems, Mesoamerica

• 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: 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.