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.
The Cincinnati Difference
What will you find in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and nowhere else?
- Six or seven years of guaranteed funding, at a level well above subsistence in low-cost Cincinnati
- Personalized professional development and mentorship
- In-person and online teaching experience suited to your needs and development
- Non-teaching service assignments in the first two years, and a dissertation year at the end
- A carefully designed and flexible ancient languages curriculum, allowing either fast passage or up to four years for mastery
- The world-renowned John Miller Burnam Classics Library, with over 300,000 monographs and 2,000 active periodical subscriptions
- The award-winning Outreach Program, now in its second decade
- The Tytus Scholars program, hosting 9 new visiting Classics scholars from around the world every year
- Excavation opportunities under Cincinnati permits in Greece and Italy
Learn more about our Faculty, Ph.D. and MA tracks in Ancient History, Bronze Age and Classical Archaeology, and Greek and Latin Philology. You may also browse our graduate course cycles, and check out detailed policy about our graduate programs in our Graduate Handbook. See more here about the Burnam Library, the Tytus Fellows program, and our Outreach program.
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 announcement: Head of the Burnam Classics Library
The University of Cincinnati Libraries seek a dynamic, strategic-thinking, and collaborative leader to fill the position of Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library, a 12-month tenure track position.The Library Head directs the work of the Classics Library and staff, and provides research services to the Classics Department, which includes eighteen full-time faculty members, four research associates, five visiting scholars, and thirty-five graduate students. Research materials cover history, archaeology, language and literature, art, numismatics, science and technology, papyrology, epigraphy, and patristics.Please see the full job announcement to learn more and apply: -
A new production of Antigone by Anna Conser in UC News!
Anna Conser is collaborating with UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), to stage a new production of Antigone.
Read more in UC News! A paper by Mike Miller.
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Matthijs Wibier receives a Loeb fellowship
Many congratulations to our own Matthijs Wibier, who has received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for his project on Roman Legal Scholarship in the Early Empire!
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Florence Gaignerot-Driessen on figurines in UC News
"Modern tech unlocks secret of ancient art": a paper by Mike Miller in UC News about the program of experimental archaeology led by Florence Gaignerot-Driessen in collaboration with DAAP.
Based on 3D-models of ancient molded terracottas recovered from a votive deposit at Anavlochos, Crete, copies in durable resin were printed at the Rapid Prototyping Center. These were used to create clay molds and replicas at the Ceramics lab in order to study their process of production and fragmentation.