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Ancient Studies Committee

Sue Langdon, Ph.D. (University of Indiana) Associate Professor. Greek Art and Archaeology, chair of the Committee. 

Patricia Beckman, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Religious Studies.

John H. Kultgen, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  Professor of Philosophy.  Greek and Roman philosophy, Aristotle.

Lawrence Okamura, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Associate Professor of History. Roman history; numismatics; the Roman frontier.

Ralph M. Rowlet, Ph.D. (Harvard University)  Professor of Anthropology.  European prehistoric archaeology, especially of the Iron Age and Migration periods; archaeological methods.

Dennis Trout, Ph.D. (Duke Unviersity)  Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Early Christianity in Rome and the West; Latin epigraphy.

Kathleen Warner Slane, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College)  Professor of Art History and Archaeology.  Roman art and archaeology; ceramics; trade and the Roman economy; the Roman East and Near Eastern archaeology.

Participating Faculty

William R. Biers, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)  Professor emeritus of Art History and Archaeology.  Greek art and archaeology; Greek plastic vases and their contents.

William Bondeson, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  Professor emeritus of Philosophy.  Plato and Aristotle.

John M. Foley, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts)  Professor of Classical Studies and English.  Oral tradition; Homer.

Daniel Hooley, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)  Associate Professor of Classical Studies.  Classical tradition; translation studies.

Raymond Marks, Ph.D. (Brown University)  Assistant Professor of Classical Studies.  Post-Augustan literature and epic poetry.

Anatole Mori, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)  Assistant Professor of Classical Studies.  Hellenistic literature and philosophy.

Michael J. O'Brien, Ph.D. (University of Texas, Austin)  Professor of Anthropology; Dean of Arts and Science.  Surface archaeology; early civilizations; prehistory of Khuzistan.

Lawrence Okamura, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  Associate Professor of History.  Roman history; numismatics; the Roman frontier.

Deborah M. Pearsall, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)  Professor of Anthropology.  Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany.

Marcus Rautman, Ph.D. (Indiana University)  Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology.  Late Antique and Byzantine art and archaeology; architectural history; urbanism in antiquity.

Charles Saylor, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)  Professor of Classical Studies.  Roman comedy; Latin poetry, especially Plautus, Propertius and Lucan.

David Schenker, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)  Associate Professor of Classical Studies.  Greek drama.

Mark Smith, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)  Associate Professor of History.  Byzantine history; the history of ancient and medieval science.

Theodore Tarkow, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  Professor of Classical Studies; Associate Dean of Arts and Science.  Greek drama and Archaic lyric poetry.

Barbara Wallach, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)  Associate Professor of Classical Studies.  Greek and Latin literature; ancient rhetoric; Lucretius.

Ian Worthington, Ph.D. (Monash University)  Associate Professor of History.  Greek history, especially of the fourth century BC; Alexander the Great; Greek oratory; Greek historiography; Greek epigraphy.


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