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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GRBS 66.3
We are delighted to announce that the most recent issue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (66.3) has just been published!
https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/issue/view/2319
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Welcome to our Tytus fellows!
On Monday, Sept. 28th, we had the pleasure to welcome to our department this term's Tytus fellows!Miriam Mann (Oxford) presented her research of the Linear B Archive of Pylos, Najee Olya (William & Mary) discussed the work on his future book on Africa and Africans in Greek art, and James Sickinger (Florida State) on publishing ostraka from the Agora and on the broader context of ostracism.The Tytus fellowship allows researchers to benefit from the resources of the Burnam Classics Library and enriches the academic life of the department.For more info, see: https://classics.uc.edu/humanities/classics/tytusThank you to Steven Ellis for organising the Tytus program and yesterday's event and to the library team and graduate students for making it happen! -
Sarah Wenner promoted to Associate Curator of Ancient Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Congratulations to our alumna, Dr. Sarah Wenner, on her promotion to Associate Curator of Ancient Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum!
Sarah defended her dissertation, "(Re) Making a Roman City: Refuse, Recycling, and Renovation Across Empire", in 2023. Expert in the ceramic traditions of Southern Jordan, she holds the curatorial position alongside her Assistant Professorship at ACOR in Jordan.
In April 2026, she was the recipient of the Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment of the Arhcaeological Institute of America (AIA). Click here to learn more about Sarah's project and her background in archaeology: https://buff.ly/Apx5JYY
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AIA Thomas H. Carpenter and Lynne C. Lancaster Fellowship
We are so grateful to our Rawson Visiting Scholars Lynne Lacaster and Tom Carpenter for their generous gift to the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)!
For more info, see the press release.