Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Barbara L Burrell

Associate Professor

501 Blegen Library

5135561918

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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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Thomas Carpenter

Rawson Visiting Scholar

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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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Jack L. Davis

Professor, Department Head

305 Blegen Library

5135561939

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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 regional studies projects on the island of Keos, in the Nemea Valley, and in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Messenia. He participated in the publication of excavations on Keos and on Melos and is an authority in the archaeology of the Aegean islands ("Review of Aegean Prehistory: The Islands of the Aegean," in T. Cullen [ed.], Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America) 19-94 and C. Shelmerdine [ed.], Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press) 186-208. Other research interests include the history and archaeology of Ottoman and early modern Greece and the history of Classical archaeology, in particular its relationship to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Davis has co-directed regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia.
His books include: Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979); Keos V. Ayia Irini: Period V (Mainz 1986); Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands (Los Angeles 1991), winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize; Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (University of Texas Press 1998); A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and the Hora Museum (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2001); An Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005); Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007); Philhellenism, Philanthropy, or Political Convenience (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2013), coedited with Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan; Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaeological Narratives (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015) with Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan and Vivian Florou, and Mycenaean Wall-Painting in Context (Paris and Athens, 2015), edited with Hariclia Brecoulaki and Sharon Stocker. His most recent book is The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017), edited with John Bennet. Davis served as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 2007 until 2012. Since 2015 he has been codirecting renewed excavations at the Palace of Nestor, together with Sharon Stocker.
in 2019 Davis delivered the prestigious Sather Lectures at the University of California Berkeley.
In 2020 Davis received the Gold Medal for achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America, the highest award granted by his professional organization.
Davis is a former director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He is at present a Trustee of that institution as well as an Overseer of its Gennadius Library.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_L._Davis

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Steven Ellis

Associate Professor

502 Blegen Library

5135564422

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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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Lauren Ginsberg

Associate Professor - on leave 2020-2021

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Kathryn J Gutzwiller

Professor

407 Blegen Library

5135561936

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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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Eleni Hatzaki

Associate Professor - on leave 2020-2021

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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

Asst Professor

210 Blegen Library

5135563050

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Caitlin Hines (PhD, University of Toronto 2018) is a philologist specializing in Latin and Greek poetry, particularly the works of Vergil and Ovid. Her research interests include intertextuality, metapoetics, and the sexual and fertility politics...

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Marion Woodrow Kruse

Assistant Professor

220 Blegen Library

5135562550

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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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Lynne Lancaster

Rawson Visiting Scholar

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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...

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Kathleen M. Lynch

Professor

599A Blegen Library

5135561937

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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

Associate Professor

599D Blegen Library

5135561799

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Daniel Markovich is a philologist with a broad interest in Greek and Latin rhetoric, philosophy, and poetics. He has published on Lucretius (including the monograph on The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Brill 2008), Vergil and...

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Susan H. Prince

Associate Professor

599B Blegen Library

5135562695

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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

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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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Peter Van Minnen

Professor

311A Blegen Library

5135561941

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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 news in 2000-01 with the discovery of the so-called Cleopatra papyrus. He has taught in Classics and History departments around the world, as well as in Divinity and Law schools. He has held fellowships from Leuven University, the Dutch Academy, Dumbarton Oaks, the American School in Athens, and the Loeb Foundation.
He has taught seminars on Alexandria (Greek papyri), Keos (Greek inscriptions), Latium Vetus (Latin inscriptions), and Roman North Africa, as well as more topical seminars (e.g., religion in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial worlds). He has set specials ranging from the Persian Empire and the economy of Classical Athens to Roman law and Greek and Latin patristics. His students have worked on Late Antique poetry, religion, and urban history, and on the transition from the Republic (or Hellenistic period) to the early Roman Empire from a variety of perspectives (literature, institutions, iconography, coins). Almost all PhDs hold tenure-track academic positions in the US or abroad.
He is currently engaged in two projects: the edition of a family archive from Hermopolis (with Greek athletes in the family) and a study of documents from Alexandria (complementing archaeology and literature; with a web component, https://classics.uc.edu/users/vanminnen/ancient_alexandria/). His publications now number well over 200 and include studies of the archaeological context of literature and documents, the Roman economy, and women in Greco-Roman Egypt. He loves numbers and looks forward to sharing his passion for agriculture, demography, and taxation… Since 2006 he edits the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, which involves one or two graduate assistants.
For more information, see his academia.edu page (https://uc.academia.edu/PetervanMinnen), and for a CV see https://classics.uc.edu/cv/PVM-CV2021-WEB.pdf.

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Research Associates

Carol R. Hershenson

Junior Research Associate

203 Blegen Library

5135563095

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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Affiliate Faculty

Susan E Allen

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department Head

458 Braunstein Hall

5135565787

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Affiliate Faculty, Department of Classics
Affiliate Faculty, Environmental Studies

Dr. Allen's current research collaborations investigate the role of agriculture and climate change in the emergence of social inequality in the Aegean (Greece) and Balkans (Albania, Croatia), the transition to agriculture in southern Europe, and the historical and political ecology of Mediterranean wetlands. As part of her research projects on these themes, she also works with archaeobotanical materials to interrogate formation processes that affect assemblage composition and interpretive potential.

As Co-Director (with Ilir Gjipali, Institute of Archaeology, Tirana) of the Southern Albania Neolithic Archaeological Project (SANAP), she is working toward publication of an edited monograph on their results from surface survey, coring, and excavation at the Early Neolithic site of Vashtëmi and survey and / or coring at several other Early Neolithic sites in the region.

In cooperation with China Shelton (ACOR), she conducts archeobotanical recovery and analysis for the Iklaina Archaeological Project, directed by Michael Cosmopoulos (UMSL), focused on excavation of the Mycenaean site of Iklaina in southwestern Greece.

In the lab, she has been collaborating with graduate student Martha Wendel (MA 2019) to complete analysis and publication of seed and charcoal remains from two sites in northern Albania excavated as part of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH), directed by Michael Galaty (U. Michigan).

She was recently awarded funding from the University Research Council to facilitate her collaboration with the Cetina Valley Survey (CeVaS), directed by Helena Tomas (U. Zagreb). Her sub-project within CeVaS focuses on documentation of human-environment landscape dynamics in the valley.

Dr. Allen encourages potential graduate students, particularly those with interest in palaeoethnobotany, archaeobotany, ethnobotany, or environmental archaeology, to reach out to her directly.

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Ari B Finkelstein

Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies

3510 French Hall

5135566546

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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,...

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Visiting Faculty

David William Frierson Stifler

Asst Professor - Visiting

Blegen Library

5135563050

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David Stifler (PhD Duke, 2019) is a philologist with broad interests in the intellectual and social history of language usage throughout Greek and Roman civilization. His primary research focuses on the debates surrounding the Greek and Latin...

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Emeritus Faculty

Ann N Michelini

Professor, emerita

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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

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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

304 Blegen Library

5135561938

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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...

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Staff

Joe Katenkamp

Financial Administrator

410 Blegen Library

5135562013

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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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Rachel R. W. Schwerdtfeger

Executive Staff Assistant

Blegen Library

5135563050

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Rachel is a native of Columbus, Ohio and received her Bachelor's in Classical Civilization from the University of Cincinnati in 2020. She did student work at UC's Langsam Library before her position in the Department of Classics. She is interested in...

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Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Barbara L Burrell

Thomas Carpenter

Jack L. Davis

Steven Ellis

Lauren Ginsberg

Kathryn J Gutzwiller

Eleni Hatzaki

Caitlin Olson Hines

Marion Woodrow Kruse

Lynne Lancaster

Kathleen M. Lynch

Daniel Markovich

Susan H. Prince

Calloway Brewster Scott

Peter Van Minnen

Research Associates

Carol R. Hershenson

Jeffrey L. Kramer

Sharon R. Stocker

John Wallrodt

Affiliate Faculty

Susan E Allen

Ari B Finkelstein

Visiting Faculty

David William Frierson Stifler

Emeritus Faculty

Ann N Michelini

Michael Martin Sage

Gisela Walberg

Staff

Joe Katenkamp

Rachel R. W. Schwerdtfeger

Visiting Scholars

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