Faculty

Robert G. Babcock, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Adjunct Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Ph.D., 1983, Classics, Duke University
Paleography, medieval Latin, reception of Latin authors
Murphey Hall 224

Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor
D.Phil., 2005, Classics, Oxford University
Greek historiography, Greek literature and culture, Myth, Women in Antiquity
Murphey Hall 320

Janet Downie, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., 2008, Classics, The University of Chicago
Second Sophistic and Imperial-era literature, Greek literature and culture, Rhetoric and Oratory, Ancient Medicine
Murphey Hall 321

Al Duncan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2012, Classics and Humanities, Stanford University
Greek drama, performance, aesthetics, genre, visualization, cognitive approaches to literature, political reception of drama
Murphey Hall 218

Jennifer Gates-Foster, Associate Professor
Adjunct Associate Professor, Curriculum in Archaeology
Ph.D., 2005, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Hellenistic and Roman Archaeology in the Near East and Egypt, Archaeological Ceramics, Achaemenid Studies
Murphey Hall 313

Donald Haggis, Nicholas A. Cassas Term Professor of Greek Studies and Chair of the Department
Adjunct Professor, Curriculum in Archaeology
Ph.D., 1992, Classical Studies, University of Minnesota
Bronze Age Aegean; Greek Early Iron Age; Early State Formation in the Aegean
Murphey Hall 318

Sharon James, Professor
Adjunct Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; Adjunct Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Ph.D., 1991, Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
Latin elegy, Roman comedy, women and gender in antiquity
Murphey Hall 303

Suzanne Lye, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2016, Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
Homer and Homeric Reception, Greek literature and culture, ancient religion and magic, ancient representations of gender and ethnicity,
mythology, rhetoric, pedagogy, Classical reception in film
Murphey Hall 226

James O’Hara, George L. Paddison Professor of Latin and Director of the Post-Baccalaureate Program
Ph.D., 1986, Classics, University of Michigan
Vergil, Republican and Augustan poetry, Hellenistic poetry
Murphey Hall 319

James Rives, Kenan Eminent Professor of Classics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Ph.D., 1990, Classics, Stanford University
Roman religion, Apuleius, Latin historiography, Roman epigraphy, Roman law
Murphey Hall 323

Patricia Rosenmeyer, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics
Ph.D., 1987, Classics and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Greek literature, especially archaic poetry, epistolary fiction, and epigram
Murphey Hall 322

Timothy Shea, Assistant Professor and John Wesley and Hodgin Hanes Fellow
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Curriculum in Archaeology
Ph.D., 2018, Art History, Duke University
Greek archaeology, sculpture, and topography
Murphey Hall 225

Hérica Valladares, Assistant Professor and Director of the Archaeology Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Curriculum in Archaeology
Ph.D., 2006, Classical Studies, Columbia University
Hellenistic and Roman art, Campanian archaeology, image and text studies
Murphey Hall 312