The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is one of the most active and largest centers for the study of the Greek and Roman Antiquity in the United States. Eighteen full-time faculty members, four research associates, and four Rawson Visiting Scholars specialize in Classical philology, ancient history, and archaeology, including Greek prehistory.
About thirty-five graduate students are in residence at any given time, while others spend a year or more abroad to study or conduct research. In the heart of the Department is the recently renovated Burnam Classical Library, the world's most comprehensive library for advanced research in Classics (with some 300,000 volumes). The department's Tytus Fellowships bring an additional nine to twelve researchers to the Department each year, in addition to many shorter-term visitors. About thirty undergraduate majors profit from the vibrant scholarly community, while an Outreach Program takes faculty and graduate students to more than 100 area schools each year. The department's lecture series, including those sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, attract audiences from the larger academic and lay community in the Cincinnati area. The Department edits Nestor, a bibliographic resource for Aegean Prehistory, and sponsors continuing series of publications for Pylos, Keos, and Troy. Faculty organize or participate in archaeological fieldwork in Greece at Pylos, Knossos, Isthmia, Anavlochos and the Athenian Agora, in Italy at Pompeii and Tharros in Sardinia, in Turkey at Gordion, and in Israel at Caesarea Maritima.
Contact
Department of Classics
410 Blegen Library
PO Box 210226
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0226
Phone | (513) 556-3050
Fax | (513) 556-4366
classics@uc.edu
Latest News
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Job offer 2026: Assistant Professor in Classics
The Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure track position in ancient Greek and Latin language and literature at the level of Assistant Professor, to begin August 15, 2026. The field of research specialization in Greek or Latin should complement those of our current faculty. -
Congratulations to our new PhDs!
We are very pleased and proud to report that all of our students who defended their PhD in 2024-2025 were offered an academic position ! Many congratulations and best wishes to all!Alice Crowe, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Florida State UniversityHaley Bertram, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Ohio UniversityTheodore Boivin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Bucknell UniversityLuiza Dos Santos Souza, Visiting Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State UniversityAlessandro Battaglia, Faculty Fellow, NYU -
Calloway Scott on the miracles at Epidauros
Calloway Scott is presenting at the Discourses on Illness 2025 Conference, held on 6-7 October, at the University of Malta.
In his talk, "Bodies of Text: Reading and Ritual Therapeutics at Epidauros", he will address the "iamata" that he also discusses in his forthcoming book, Hygieia: Health, Ritual, and Community in Ancient Greece.
More info on the conference here. -
UC Classics presence at the 7th IARPotHP Conference
Our own Kathleen Lynch is presenting her Dig Pottery app for Athenian pottery identification at the Hellenistic Pottery in Context Conference!This 7th conference for Hellenistic pottery is co-organized in Brussels on 6-9 October by our alumnus Alexandros Laftsidis (CRea Patrimoine, ULB).More info on IARPotHP and the conference here.
