Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 212 Murphey Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
PHONE: (919) 962-7191
FAX: (919) 962-4036




Current Full-Time Faculty Members

Robert G. Babcock (Professor)
Ph.D. 1983, Duke University (Classics)
Paleography, medieval Latin, reception of Latin authors

Emily Baragwanath (Assistant Professor)
D.Phil. 2005, Oxford University (Classics)
Greek historiography, Greek literature and culture, Myth, Women in Antiquity

Brendan Boyle (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. 2007, University of Chicago (Classics)
Greek political and ethical thought, Greek law, rhetoric

Owen Goslin (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. 2006, University of California at Los Angeles (Classics)
Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry, ancient athletics

Donald Haggis (Nicholas A. Cassas Term Professor of Greek Studies)
Ph.D. 1992, University of Minnesota (Classical Studies)
Bronze Age Aegean; Greek Early Iron Age; Early State Formation in the Aegean

Sharon James (Associate Professor)
Ph.D. 1991, University of California at Berkeley (Comparative Literature)
Latin elegy, Roman comedy, women and gender in antiquity

Lidewijde de Jong (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. 2007, Stanford (Classical Archaeology)
Roman archaeology, the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

James O'Hara (George L. Paddison Professor of Latin)
Ph.D. 1986, University of Michigan (Classics)
Vergil, Republican and Augustan poetry, Hellenistic poetry

William H. Race (George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, Director of the Post-Baccalaureate Program)
Ph.D. 1973, Stanford University (Classics with a minor in Comparative Literature)
Pindar, Hellenistic poetry, classical tradition

Werner Riess (Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies)
Ph.D. 2000, University of Heidelberg (Ancient History)
Roman social history, fourth century Athens, the ancient novel

James Rives (Kenan Eminent Professor of Classics, Liaison for the King's College London Exchange Program)
Ph.D. 1990, Stanford University (Classics)
Roman religion, Latin historiography, Roman law

Kenneth Sams (Professor)
Ph.D. 1971, University of Pennsylvania (Classical Archaeology)
Greek archaeology, Iron Age Near Eastern archaeology

Peter Smith (Associate Professor)
Ph.D. 1970, Harvard University (Classics)
Homer, Greek philosophical literature, Greek tragedy

Monika Truemper (Associate Professor)
Ph.D. 1995, Munich University (Classical Archaeology)
Hellenistic and Roman art and architecture

Cecil Wooten (Professor, Department Chair)
Ph.D. 1972, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Classics)
Greek and Latin rhetoric and oratory, the ancient novel