Faculty

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Barbara L Burrell

Associate Professor

501 Blegen Library

5135561918

barbara.burrell@uc.edu

Barbara Burrell is a Roman archaeologist who has dug at sites across the Mediterranean, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. It may have been this diversity that has led to her being chosen as editor of the forthcoming Blackwell's...
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Anna Danielle Giboney Conser

Assistant Professor

301 Blegen Library

5135567379

anna.conser@uc.edu

Anna Conser (PhD, Columbia 2021) is a philologist specializing in Greek literature.  Her current research focusses on ancient music and performance, Greek drama and lyric poetry, and the digital processing of ancient texts.  As part of her first book...
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Jack L. Davis

Professor

305 Blegen Library

5135561939

jack.davis@uc.edu

Jack L. Davis is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology. In 1993 he came to the University of Cincinnati from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he had taught since 1977. In Greece Professor Davis has directed archaeological...
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Steven Ellis

Associate Professor

502 Blegen Library

5135564422

steven.ellis@uc.edu

Steven Ellis (PhD Sydney, 2005) is a Roman archaeologist whose research activities and publications spring from his interests in ancient cities and urban life.  He has conducted fieldwork principally throughout Italy and Greece, but with other field...
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Florence Gaignerot-Driessen

Assistant Professor

Blegen Library

5135563050

florence.gaignerot-driessen@uc.edu

Florence Gaignerot-Driessen (PhD Paris-Sorbonne, 2013) is an archaeologist specializing in the Aegean world during the Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Archaic period. Her current research interest focuses on state and social group formation and...
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Eleni Hatzaki

Associate Professor

311B Blegen Library

eleni.hatzaki@uc.edu

Eleni Hatzaki is an Aegean Prehistorian working on Crete with research interests in the archaeology of Prehistoric Knossos, ceramic production and consumption, burial customs and society, site formation processes, and household archaeology. She...
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Caitlin Olson Hines

Assistant Professor (she/her/hers) Affiliate Faculty in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

599B Blegen Library

5135563050

caitlin.hines@uc.edu

Caitlin Hines (PhD, University of Toronto 2018) is a philologist specializing in Latin and Greek poetry, particularly the works of Vergil and Ovid, and is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research...
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Danielle L Kellogg

Associate Professor (she/her)

311B Blegen Library

5135562574

danielle.kellogg@uc.edu

Danielle Kellogg's research focuses on the political history and epigraphy of rural Attica, the territory of Athens. Her monograph, Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple, examined the history and identity of Acharnai, the largest of the Athenian...
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Dylan MacMurphy Kenny

Asst Professor (he/him)

Blegen Library

5135563050

dylan.kenny@uc.edu

Dylan Kenny (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2023) is a philologist specializing in Greek literature and philosophy. His current project situates the lyric poet Pindar against the horizon of the intellectual and social transformations of the fifth century BCE.
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Marion W Kruse

Associate Professor

220 Blegen Library

5135562550

marion.kruse@uc.edu

I am a Roman historian with a broad interest in ancient history and historiography, in particular the historiography of late antiquity. My early work focused on the reign of the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565 AD) and the preeminent historian of his...
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Kathleen M. Lynch

Professor

599A Blegen Library

5135561937

kathleen.lynch@uc.edu

Kathleen is a Classical Archaeologist who has worked on sites in Italy, Greece, Albania, and Turkey. In particular, she is a ceramic specialist interested in Athenian figured wares from archaeological contexts. Her research currently spans a number of...
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Daniel Markovich

Professor, Department Head

209 Blegen Library

5135561799

daniel.markovic@uc.edu

Daniel Markovich is a philologist with a broad interest in Greek and Latin rhetoric, philosophy, and poetry, and the ways in which these three types of discourse shape ancient educational texts. He has published on Lucretius (including the...
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Susan H. Prince

Associate Professor

599B Blegen Library

5135562695

susan.prince@uc.edu

Susan Prince's research interests are in the history of ancient Greek thought and literature, especially the Socratic traditions. Her primary projects are on Antisthenes and the ancient Cynics. Her teaching interests cover Greek and Roman...
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Calloway Brewster Scott

Assistant Professor

Blegen Library

5135563050

calloway.scott@uc.edu

Calloway Scott (PhD, NYU 2017) is a historian of ancient Greece. His research is informed by an interest in the entanglements of science and society. Inspired by turns in medical history and medical anthropology, his current book-project examines...
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Kelly Elizabeth Shannon-Henderson

Associate Professor (she her)

310 Blegen Library

5135562583

kelly.shannon-henderson@uc.edu

Kelly Shannon-Henderson's research focuses on prose literature, both Greek and Latin, of the Imperial period, particularly the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Her monograph, Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals, examines religious material in the Annals using...
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Peter Van Minnen

Professor

311A Blegen Library

5135561941

peter.vanminnen@uc.edu

Peter van Minnen (PhD 1997) is an ancient historian broadly interested in the society, economy, and culture of the Roman Empire, including Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. He is an authority on papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt and made world...
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Matthijs   Wibier

Assistant Professor (he/his)

Blegen Library

5135563050

matthijs.wibier@uc.edu

My research interests lie in the political, social, and intellectual culture of the Roman Empire (with forays into Late Antiquity). I am fascinated by how texts and information circulated and what people did with them. I am equally interested in...

Rawson Visiting Scholars

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Thomas Carpenter

Rawson Visiting Scholar

Blegen Library

5135563050

thomas.carpenter@uc.edu

Thomas H. Carpenter is Distinguished Professor of Classics, Emeritus at Ohio University, where he taught from 1997- 2018. At OU, as the Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities, he was Director of the Ping Institute for the Teaching of the...
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Jan Driessen

jan.driessen@uc.edu

Jan Driessen has an MA in Archaeology and one in Ancient History, both from the University of Leuven, where he also defended his PhD. He is emeritus professor of Greek Archaeology of the UCLouvain and is honorary director of the Belgian School at...
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Lynne C. Lancaster

Rawson Visiting Scholar

Blegen Library

5135563050

lynne.lancaster@uc.edu

Lynne Lancaster is an archaeologist specializing ancient Roman construction and technology. She studied architecture at Virginia Tech where she received her B.Arch. She then earned an M.Phil. and D.Phil. at Oxford University in Classical...

Research Associates

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Carol R. Hershenson

Junior Research Associate

203 Blegen Library

5135563095

carol.hershenson@uc.edu

My B.A. (University of Chicago) was in Linguistics, a perspective which informs my teaching of introductory and intermediate Greek and Latin. I have spoken extensively on diachronic continuities of syntax in Minoan vernacular architecture (the...
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Jeffrey L. Kramer

Junior Research Associate

319 Blegen Library

5135560429

jeffrey.kramer@uc.edu

Jeff holds an M.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Bronze Age Archaeology from the University of Cincinnati. His archival research interests focus on daily life in historical excavations, especially UC's...
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Sharon R. Stocker

Senior Research Associate

Blegen Library

5135563638

sharon.stocker@uc.edu

Sharon is a professional archaeologist who has participated in excavations in Greece and Albania.  She directs the publications program for UC excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Greece.  She has served as co-director of archaeological surveys in...
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John Wallrodt

Senior Research Associate

317 Blegen Library

5135562584

john.wallrodt@uc.edu

John has worked in Israel, Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Albania in all aspects of archaeological fieldwork. Following his interest in spatial analysis, and in order to make sense of it all, he turned to computers. Within the department, he helps...

Affiliate Faculty

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Susan E Allen

Associate Professor, Department Head, NAGPRA Director

458 Braunstein Hall

5135565787

susan.allen@uc.edu

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Classics
Affiliate Faculty, Environmental Studies
Affiliate Faculty, European Studies

Dr. Allen's current research collaborations investigate the role of agriculture and climate change in the emergence of social...
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Ari B Finkelstein

Associate Professor, Judaic Studies

3510 French Hall

5135566546

ari.finkelstein@uc.edu

Professor Finkelstein is a historian of Jews and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. His main research focuses on the use and function of Jews and Judaism in the works of Christians and pagans in Late Antiquity. His current book project,...

Emeritus Faculty

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Kathryn J Gutzwiller

Professor, emerita

Blegen Library

5135563050

kathryn.gutzwiller@uc.edu

Kathryn Gutzwiller holds an M.A. in Latin from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests include Greek and Latin poetry, ancient gender studies, literary theory, and the interaction between...
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Ann N Michelini

Professor, emerita

ann.michelini@uc.edu

Professor Emerita Ann N. Michelini works in the areas of tragic drama and Platonic studies. She is the author of two books on tragic drama, including Euripides and the Tragic Tradition. She is also the author of an edited volume, Plato as Author:...
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Michael Martin Sage

Professor, emeritus

michael.sage@uc.edu

At present I am engaged on a source book on Roman warfare to serve as a companion to a Greek one published in 1996. It will contain introductory general essays, essays on specific topics as well as translations of relevant passages. The period...
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Gisela Walberg

Professor, emerita

gisela.walberg@uc.edu

Gisela Walberg is the Marion Rawson Professor of Aegean Prehistory at the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. Before moving to Cincinnati, she taught for two years at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of...

Staff

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Joe Katenkamp

Financial Administrator

410 Blegen Library

5135562013

joseph.katenkamp@uc.edu

Joe is originally from Cincinnati. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago where he received his B.A. in Communications. After graduating he moved to Los Angeles and started his career. In 2001 he moved back to Cincinnati to raise a...
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Charlie J. Kocurek

Program Coordinator

ARTSCI

5135565924

charlie.kocurek@uc.edu

Visiting Scholars

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Caleb Dance

Visiting Scholar

Blegen Library

5135563050

caleb.dance@uc.edu

Caleb Dance is a Tytus Fellow from Washington and Lee working on his project: Ovid's Amores Book 3 - Commentary and Speculative Genetic Edition
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Valeria Meirano

Visiting Scholar

Blegen Library

5135563050

valeria.meirano@uc.edu

Valeria Meirano is a Tytus Fellow from Torino Italy working on her project: Contextualizing metal objects at Delphi. A contribution to the understanding of offering and ritual practices in the panhellenic sanctuary
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Maria Spathi

Visiting Scholar

Blegen Library

5135563050

maria.spathi@uc.edu

Maria Spathi from the Centero for Hellenic Studies is a Tytus Fellow working on her project: The Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis in ancient Messene, south-west Peloponnese A contribution to the religious topography of the city