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

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: 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: Medieval art and architecture

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: 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