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Faculty List

Professors

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Joseph C Carter

Centennial Professor of Classical Archaeology; Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology

j.carter@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-9321  |  MCC 1.406

Interests

  Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology

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Michael Gagarin

Professor: James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor

gagarin@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8864  |  WAG 123B

Interests

  Greek Law, Literature, and Philosophy

Karl Galinsky

Professor: Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor

galinsky@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8504  |  WAG 215

Interests

  Roman Literature and Civilization; Classical Tradition in Popular Culture

Robert J Hankinson

Professor of Philosophy and Classics

rjhankinson@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5572  |  WAG 409

Education   

PhD, Cambridge

Interests

  Ancient Philosophy and Medicine, Philosophy of Science

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Thomas K Hubbard

Professor

tkh@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-0676  |  WAG 9

Education   

PhD; 1980, Yale

Interests

  Greek lyric poetry; Attic drama; Roman elegy and lyric; lesbian and gay studies

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Timothy J Moore

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature; Undergraduate and Honors Advisor

timmoore@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-4161  |  WAG 113

Education   

Ph.D; 1986, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests

  Livy, Roman Comedy, Japanese Kyôgen Comedy

M. Gwyn Morgan

Professor of Classics and Hisory

mgm@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-5742  |  WAG 109

Education   

Ph.D., 1962, University of Exeter, U.K.

Interests

  Roman History, Latin Literature

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Alexander Mourelatos

Professor of Philosophy and Classics

apdm@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6749  |  WAG 200C

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Science, Linguistic Theory, Modern Greek Studies

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William R Nethercut

Professor

nethercut@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-3839  |  WAG 123

Interests

  Greek and Roman Literature, Egyptology

Thomas G Palaima

Professor: Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor

471-8837  |  WAG 14AA

Education   

Ph.D. 1980, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests

  Aegean scripts and prehistory, Greek language, war and violence studies, public intellectual writing.

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Paula J Perlman

Professor and Graduate Adviser

p.perlman@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7402  |  WAG 14B

Education   

PhD 1984, The University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Greek history of the Archaic and Classical periods, Greek historiography, ancient law, ancient religion, Greek epigraphy

Andrew M Riggsby

Professor of Classics and Art History

ariggsby@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7442  |  WAG 207

Interests

  Roman Cultural History, Latin Prose, Linguistics

L. Michael White

Professor of Classics and Religious Studies: Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins

lmwhite@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-1438  |  WAG 212

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University

Interests

  New Testament and Christian Origins, Graeco-Roman Religions

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Stephen A White

Professor of Classics and Philosophy; Department Chair

sawhite@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7457  |  WAG 123B

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Ancient philosophy, Greek literature

Paul B Woodruff

Professor of Philosophy and Classics; Dean of Undergraduate Studies

pbw@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-7000  |  FAC 406

Education   

PhD, Princeton

Associate Professors

Marc Bizer

Associate Professor of French

mbizer@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7780  |  HRH 3.112A

Education   

PhD, Princeton University

Interests

  Reception of Classical Texts in Early Modern France, Renaissance Latin Literature; Classical Tradition

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Lesley A Dean-Jones

Associate Professor

ldjones@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-2352  |  WAG 117

Interests

  Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Medicine, Women in Antiquity

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Jennifer V Ebbeler

Associate Professor

ebbeler@cs.com  |  471-7570  |  WAG 211

Education   

PhD; 2001, University of Pennsylvania

Sara E Kimball

Associate Professor of English

skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  471-8363  |  PAR 108

Education   

Ph.D., 1983, University of Pennsylvania

Interests

  Hittitology

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Glenn Peers

Associate Professor - Art History

gpeers@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-2594  |  DFA 1.112

Education   

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Interests

  Early Medieval and Byzantine Art

Assistant Professors

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Deborah Beck

Assistant Professor

deborah.beck@mail.utexas.edu  |  WAG 223

Education   

PhD 1997, Harvard University

Interests

  Archaic Greek literature, especially Homeric epic; Augustan Latin poetry

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Jennifer Gates-Foster

Assistant Professor

gatesfoster@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-1238  |  WAG 15

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Interests

  Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Survey Archaeology, Pottery studies

Ayelet Haimson-Lushkov

Assistant Professor

ayelet.haimsonlushkov@mail.utexas.edu  |  WAG 107

Education   

Ph.D 2009, Yale University

Interests

  Roman History and Latin Literature

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Lawrence Y Kim

Assistant Professor

lykim@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7296  |  WAG 210

Education   

Ph.D; 2001, Princeton

Interests

  Dio of Prusa, Plutarch, the Ancient Novel, Philostratus

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Athanasio Papalexandrou

Affiliate faculty

papalex@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-5021  |  ART 3.404

Education   

Ph.D., Princeton University
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Adam T Rabinowitz

Assistant Professor; Assistant Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology

arabinow@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-9319, 471-0197  |  WAG 7

Education   

PhD 2004, University of Michigan

Interests

  Greek colonization, cultural interaction, ancient food and drink, archaeology of daily life, digital approaches to archaeology

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Rabun M Taylor

Assistant Professor

rmtaylor@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-0677  |  WAG 123

Education   

Ph.D; 1997, University of Minnesota

Interests

  Greek and Roman art, architecture, archaeology, urbanism, social history, and material culture

Lecturers

Todd A. Curtis

Lecturer

toddacurtis@yahoo.com  |  WAG 200A

Education   

PhD, Newcastle

Interests

  Classics, Ancient Medicine

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Dan L Davis

Lecturer

dandavis@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-7467  |  WAG 5

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2009)

Interests

  Greek & Roman Art & Archaeology, Greek History, Late Antiquity, Marine Archaeology

Eric Dodson-Robinson

Lecturer

edr@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  512 471-5742  |  WAG 227

Education   

PhD 2009, Illinois

Interests

  Tragedy • Critical Approaches to Literature • Elizabethan Drama and Reception of the Classics

John Lennard Friend

Lecturer

otago@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8607  |  WAG 217

Education   

PhD, 2009, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Greek History, Military History

Constanze M Witt

Lecturer

cmwitt@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8684  |  WAG 17

Education   

Ph.D; 1997 (Archaeology/Art History), University of Virginia

Interests

  Archaeology of Iron Age Europe, Hellenistic Studies

Other faculty

Douglas G Biow

Professor of Italian/Medieval and Renaissance Studies

biow@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-7267  |  HRH 2.110B

Education   

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Interests

  Medieval and Renaissance Italian and Latin Literature

Douglas R. Boin

Research Associate, Max-Planck Award Memoria Project

drboin@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

PhD 2009, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  The material culture of Late Antiquity

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John R Clarke

Professor - Art History

j.clarke@mail.utexas.edu  |  DFA 2.114

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Greek & Roman Art and Architecture

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Penelope Davies

Associate Professor - Art History

pdavies@mail.utexas.edu  |  ART 3.435

Education   

PhD, Yale University

Interests

  Roman Art and Architecture

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Steven J. Friesen

Professor of Religious Studies and Classics: Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies

friesen@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8629  |  BUR 418

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Religious Studies; Poverty and Inequality in Early Roman Empire; Apocalyptic Literature; Imperial Cults

Ulf R Hansson

Research Fellow

hansson@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  471-5742

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Jennifer Moody

Research Fellow

hogwildjam@mac.com

Interests

  Archaeology and environmental history of the Aegean (especially Crete)

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Amy Papalexandrou

Lecturer - Art History

apapalex@mail.utexas.edu  |  Department of Art and Art History

Education   

Ph.D., Princeton

Interests

  Late Antique and Byzantine Art, Architecture, and Culture

Wolfgang Polleichtner

Research Fellow

Professors Emeriti

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David Armstrong

Professor Emeritus

davidarm@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5742  |  WAG 110

Education   

PhD, The University of Texas Austin

Interests

  Latin Poetry, Ancient Literary Criticism, Hellenistic and Roman Literature

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Ingrid M Edlund-Berry

Professor Emerita

iemeb@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-3071  |  WAG 110

Interests

  Etruscan and Italian archaeology and culture

Peter M Green

James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics

pmgreen@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5742  |  WAG 123

Interests

  Greek History, Greek Literature, Roman Satire and Elegy

James A Hitt

Associate Professor Emeritus

471-5742  |  WAG 123

John H Kroll

Professor Emeritus

jhkroll@mail.utexas.edu

Interests

  Greek Archaeology and History, Numismatics

Douglass S Parker

Professor Emeritus

dsparker@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-2387  |  WAG 110

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Cynthia W Shelmerdine

Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor Emerita of Classics

cwshelm@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5742  |  WAG 110

Interests

  Aegean Bronze Age Texts and Archaeology, Greek Literature

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