Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program

• Major in Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Faculty

Chair/Director

Sandra Blakely

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Associate Professor

Education

• BA, Brigham Young University, 1982
• PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1998

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Greek material culture
• Greek and Roman religion
• anthropology of the ancient world

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Sandra Blakely

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Associate Professor

Education

• BA, Brigham Young University, 1982
• PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1998

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Greek material culture
• Greek and Roman religion
• anthropology of the ancient world

Core Faculty

Peter Bing

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Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor

Education

• BA, Bowdoin College, 1976
• MA, University of Michigan, 1978
• PhD, University of Michigan, 1981

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Greek literature
• Archaic and Hellenistic poetry
• Greek and Roman drama

Sandra Blakely

P9863852

Associate Professor

Education

• BA, Brigham Young University, 1982
• PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1998

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Greek material culture
• Greek and Roman religion
• anthropology of the ancient world

Oded Borowski

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Professor

Education

• Other, Midrasha (Detroit), 1968
• BA, Wayne State University, 1970
• MA, University of Michigan, 1972
• PhD, University of Michigan, 1979

Departments

• Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies , Core Faculty
• Jewish Studies, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

R. Bracht Branham

P9657609

Professor

Education

• BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1976
• BA, University of Cambridge, 1978
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1983

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• classics and comparative literature
• rhetoric and philosophy

Kevin Corrigan

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Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities

Education

• BA, Lancaster University, 1975
• MA, Dalhousie University, 1977
• PhD, Dalhousie University, 1980

Departments

• Institute of the Liberal Arts, Core Faculty
• Medieval Studies, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• classics and classical studies
• philosophy
• history of ideas
• Platonic and neo-Platonic thought
• literature
• religion
• mysticism
• medieval studies
• Latin at Oxford

Katrina Dickson

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Lecturer

Education

• Ph.D, Emory University, 2002
• MA, Emory University, 1996
• BA, Duke University, 1989

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• art/archeology of Greece and Rome
• Latin literature
• women in antiquity
• Roman sculpture, politics and propaganda in ancient art

Judith Evans-Grubbs

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Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History

Education

• Ph.D, Stanford University, 1987
• BA, Emory University, 1978

Departments

• History, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Philippa Lang

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Associate Professor

Education

• BA, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1997
• MA, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 2000
• MPhil, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1997
• PhD, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, 2002

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Roxani Margariti

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Associate Professor

Education

• BA, University College, 1990
• MA, Texas A & M University, 1998
• PhD, Princeton University, 2002

Departments

• Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies , Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Jonathan Master

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Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D, Princeton University, 2007
• BA, Columbia University, 2001

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Roman Historiography
• Ancient Ethnography
• Post-Augustan Latin

Gordon Newby

P9733863

Professor

Education

• BA, University of Utah, 1962
• MA, Brandeis University, 1964
• PhD, Brandeis University, 1966

Departments

• Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies , Core Faculty
• Jewish Studies, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty
• Medieval Studies, Core Faculty

Cynthia Patterson

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Professor

Education

• BA, Stanford University, 1971
• PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1976

Departments

• History, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Ancient Greek social and intellectual history
• Ancient Greek medicine
• Ancient Greek historiography
• Women and Gender in ancient Greece and Rome

Richard Patterson

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Professor

Education

• BA, Stanford University, 1969
• PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1974

Departments

• Philosophy, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• ancient philosophy
• metaphysics
• philosophy of mind
• logic

Christine Perkell

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Professor

Education

• BA, Wellesley College, 1967
• PhD, Harvard University, 1977

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Latin literature
• epic poetry
• women's studies
• the ancient novel

Vernon Robbins

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Professor

Education

• BA, Westmar College, 1960
• MDiv, United Theological Seminary, 1963
• MA, University of Chicago, 1966
• PhD, University of Chicago, 1969

Departments

• Religion, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• New Testament
• comparative sacred texts

Rosemary (Gay) Robins

P7497891

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor

Education

• Ph.D, University of Cambridge, 1982
• D.Phil, University of Oxford, 1981
• BA, University of Durham, 1975
• BA, University of Durham, 1972

Departments

• Art History, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Niall Slater

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Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek

Education

• BA, College of Wooster, 1976
• MA, Princeton University, 1978
• PhD, Princeton University, 1981

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• drama
• novel
• archaeology of the theater

Garth Tissol

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Associate Professor

Education

• BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1974
• MA, University of Washington, 1976
• MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1980
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1988

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty
• Medieval Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Latin literature
• Hellenistic poetry
• English literature

Eric Varner

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Associate Professor

Education

• AB, Princeton University, 1985
• MPhil, Yale University, 1988
• PhD, Yale University, 1993

Departments

• Classics, Core Faculty
• Art History, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty
• Medieval Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• art history
• classics
• Roman art and archeology

Bonna Wescoat

P8556958

Professor

Education

• BA, Smith College, 1976
• MA, University of London, 1977
• MPhil, University of Oxford, 1979
• DPhil, University of Oxford, 1983

Departments

• Art History, Core Faculty
• Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Core Faculty

Academic Interests

• Greek art and architecture
• archaeology