People
Christopher Adams, Classics graduate student
BA, Vassar College; MA, UC Berkeley
chadams@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin Literature; Roman History; Erotic Elegy and Gender
Samantha Alford, Classical Archaeology graduate student
B.A. 2012 University of California, Berkeley
salford@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Bronze Age Aegean, Cult and Ritual
John Anderson, Professor emeritus
Ian Anderson, Classics graduate student
BA Classics and Philosophy, Columbia, 2009; MA Greek, Berkeley, 2012
reander@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
William Anderson, Professor emeritus
B.A. 1950 Yale University, B.A., M.A. 1952 Cambridge University, Ph.D. 1954 Yale University
Special interests: Latin Literature.
Elias Avinger, Department Alumnus
elias@berkeley.edu
7226 Dwinelle Hall
Maurizio Bettini, Visiting Professor of Classics (Fall 2013)
bettini@unisi.it
7210 Dwinelle Hall
Frank Bezner, Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
M.A. 1996, Ph.D./Dr.phil. 2000 University of Tuebingen
n/a
fbezner@berkeley.edu
4335 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Medieval Latin Literature; Neo-Latin Literature; Intellectual History; Material Philology
Justin Boner, Classics graduate student
B.A. (Classics) New College of Florida, 2009; M.A. (Classics) U.C. Berkeley, 2012.
justin.boner@berkeley.edu
7226 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Archaic Greek Cultural History; Greek Literature (Homeric Hymns, Lyric, Herodotus); Greek Epigraphy; Anthropology of Language; French Theory.
Caroline Boyden, web designer
Marshall Brekka, Guest
Aaron Brown, Classical Archaeology Graduate Student
B.A. (Classical Archaeology & Latin) Florida State University, 2013
adbrown@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Roman and Italic art, archaeology, and visual culture
Anthony Bulloch, Professor of Classics, Assistant Dean (College of Letters & Science, Office of Undergraduate Advising)
B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1971 Cambridge University
(510) 642-4001
abulloch@berkeley.edu
7213 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek Literature, Language, Myth and Religion, Ancient Metrics.
Sarah Calderon, Staff Member
(510) 642-1110
snc@berkeley.edu
7233 Dwinelle Hall
Christopher Churchill, Classics graduate student
BA Wesleyan University (2000); MA UCB (2006)
cchurch@socrates.berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature (especially Augustan poetry, as well as Latin epic more broadly); Roman history and historiography
David Cohen, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor Emeritus in Rhetoric and Classics
B.A. 1969 Occidental College, J. D. 1972 UCLA School of Law, Ph.D. 1981 Cambridge University
(510) 642-6614
djcohen@berkeley.edu
7309 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: ancient rhetoric, classical Greek law, political and legal theory
David Crane, Lecturer
MA, UC Berkeley, 2005; AB, UChicago, 2002
dccrane@berkeley.edu
7216 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Roman Philosophy, Greek Literature
David DeVore, Graduate Student Instructor
Stefani Dixon, Classics graduate student
B.A. Classics, CUNY Brooklyn (2010), M.A. Latin, UC Berkeley (2012).
s.dixon@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin Elegy, Roman Satire, Gender/Sexuality, Postcolonial reception of the Classics in Caribbean and Latin American literature, pedagogy and diversity in contemporary Classical education.
Cassandra Dunn, Student Services Adviser
(510) 642-3672
cassandrajj@berkeley.edu
7228 Dwinelle Hall
Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Classics graduate student
B.A. (Greek, Latin, Literary Arts) Brown University, M.Phil. (Greek and Latin) Oxford
sasha.eccleston@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature (esp. Ovid, Apuleius, and Petronius), The Ancient Novel and the Second Sophistic, Literary Theory, Popular Culture and the Classics, Translation of the Classics, Contemporary Poetry
Susanna Elm, Professor of History and Classics
D.Phil. 1986 Oxford University
(510) 642-2238
elm@berkeley.edu
2310 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Late Antiquity, Later Roman Empire, Early Christianity
Daniel Esses, Classics graduate student
B. A. Vassar College (2009); M.A. UC Berkeley (2012)
daesses@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Ancient philosophy, especially Plato; cultural and intellectual history; literature as philosophy/ philosophy as literature; rhetoric, especially on the varieties of irony, ambiguity and theorizing of genre(s).
Seth Estrin, Classical Archaeology graduate Student
B.A. (Classics and Art History) University of Toronto, 2008. MSt (Classical Archaeology) Merton College, Oxford, 2009. MA (Classical Archaeology), UC Berkeley, 2011.
sestrin@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek and Roman art, archaeology, and visual culture (with special focus on Archaic and Classical Greece). Minoan wall painting; emotion and agency in Greek art; theories of style and naturalism; text and art (epigrams, ekphrasis); 18th/19th c. reception.
Marilyn Evans, Classical Archaeology graduate student
B.A. Hons. in Classics and Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2003), M.A. in Classics, University of Georgia (2006)
Special interests: Greek and Roman art and archaeology; early Rome, especially archaic Rome and Latium; death and burial in Roman antiquity; urbanization; Roman history and historiography; Roman North Africa.
G.R.F. (John) Ferrari, Department Chair; Professor of Classics
B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983 Cambridge University
(510) 642-3164
gferrari@berkeley.edu
7217 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Ancient Philosophy, Greek Culture, Ancient Poetics and Rhetoric, Philosophical Aesthetics
William Fitzgerald, Professor emeritus of Classics and Rhetoric
Lynn Gallogly, Classics graduate student
B.A. Wellesley College, 2012
lynn617@berkeley.edu
Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics
Special interests: Indo-European languages and historical linguistics
Mark Griffith, Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Professor of Classics and of TDPS (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies)
B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1973 Cambridge University
(510) 642-3147
markg@berkeley.edu
7215 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek Literature, Drama, and Performance
Candace Groskreutz, Student Services Adviser
(510) 643-8741
candaceg@berkeley.edu
7222 Dwinelle Hall
Erich Gruen, Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics Emeritus
B.A. 1957 Columbia University, B.A., M.A. 1960 Oxford University, Ph.D. 1964 Harvard University
gruene@berkeley.edu
3422 Dwinelle
Special interests: Greek and Roman History; Jews in the Greco-Roman world
Christopher Hallett, Professor of Classics and Art History
B.A. 1980 University of Bristol, M.Phil. 1983 Oxford University, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley
(510) 643-4512
chrishallett@berkeley.edu
418 Doe Library
Special interests: Roman Art and Visual Culture, Ancient Portraiture, Hellenistic Art
Thomas Hendrickson, Classics graduate student
BA University of Minnesota (2005); MA UC Berkeley (2008); PhD UC Berkeley (2013)
thendrickson@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin prose literature (especially historiography), ancient biography, Roman material and visual culture, Roman domestic architecture, the history of the book, the Sabellic languages (Oscan, Umbrian, South Picene)
Marissa Henry, Classics Graduate Student
Ralph Hexter, Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature (now Provost and EVC, UC Davis)
Todd Hickey, Associate Professor/Director, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
A.B. 1990 (University of Pennsylvania), A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 2001 (University of Chicago)
(510) 642-4556
thickey@library.berkeley.edu
489 Bancroft Library
Special interests: Papyrology (Greek and Egyptian), social and economic history, Late Antiquity, Lucian
Gary Holland, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Special interests: Indo-European languages and historical linguistics
Tom Holub, System Administrator
Molly Horne, Classics graduate student
BA Greek and Latin, UCLA, 2012
mdhorne@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin prose literature, especially historiography
Jared Hudson, Classics graduate student
BA Yale University; MPhil Cambridge University; MA UC Berkeley
jhudson@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Roman literature and culture; Greek and Latin rhetorical tradition
Morgan E. Hunter, Classics graduate student
BA (Latin and Greek), Santa Clara University, 2011
mehunter@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Tragedy, comparative philology, Greek philosophy, Late Antiquity
Raymond M Kania, Visiting Lecturer
rkania@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Morgan King, Classics graduate student
B.A. Carleton College 2011
mvking@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin literature; reception studies; Late Antiquity
Robert Knapp, Professor emeritus
B.A. 1968 Central Michigan University, Ph.D. 1973 University of Pennsylvania
510 642-5314
rcknapp@berkeley.edu
7207 Dwinelle
Special interests: Roman History, Culture, and Literature
Leslie Kurke, Head Graduate Adviser; Gladys Rehard Wood Chair, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
B.A. 1981 Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D. 1988 Princeton University
(510) 642-2054
kurke@berkeley.edu
4331 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek Literature and Culture, Archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus
Rachel Lesser (rlesser), Classics graduate student
B.A. Classics, Columbia (2006); B.A. Classics and English, Oxford (2008), M.A. Classics, UC Berkeley (2009)
rlesser@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek and Latin poetry, erotics, Victorian and Modernist English literature, reception studies
Virginia Lewis, Classics graduate student
BA University of Pennsylvania 2004; MA University of Georgia 2007
vlewis@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Pindar, archaic Greek poetry, Homer and the epic tradition, Greek tragedy, myth and religion
Nancy Lichtenstein, CASMA Academic Personnel Specialist
(510) 642-4346
nancylichtenstein@berkeley.edu
7224 Dwinelle Hall
Anthony Long, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Irving G. Stone Professor Emeritus of Literature; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Rhetoric
B.A. 1960 University College London, Ph.D. 1964 University of London
(510) 642-6028
aalong@berkeley.edu
7218 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Roman Philosophy and Greek Literature
Emily Mackil, Associate Professor of History
Special interests: Greek history; Epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics
Donald J. Mastronarde, Melpomene Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature
B.A. 1969 Amherst College, B.A. 1971 Oxford University, Ph.D. 1974 University of Toronto
(510) 642-4099
djmastronarde@berkeley.edu
7219 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek Drama, Greek Literature, Greek textual transmission and scholia
Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History and Classics
Special interests: Byzantine studies; Byzantium and the Arabs
Kathleen McCarthy, Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
A.B. 1984 Stanford University, MAT 1986 U. Mass. Amherst, Ph.D. 1994 Princeton University
(510) 642-0216
kmccarth@berkeley.edu
7221 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Roman Literature and Culture, slavery
Mark McClay, Classics graduate student
B.A. St. John's College (2009), Post-Baccalaureate UCLA (2009-2010)
mfmcclay@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek drama, Greek religion; ancient scholarship, history of classical scholarship
Derin McLeod, Classics graduate student
BA Yale University (2008); MPhil Cambridge University (2009); MA UC Berkeley (2010)
derin.mcleod@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Stephen Miller, Professor emeritus of Classical Archaeology
A.B. 1964 Wabash College, Ph.D. 1970 Princeton University
sgmnemea@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology; Ancient Architecture; Greek Athletics
Kevin Moch, Classics graduate student
A.B. Princeton University 2010
Special interests: Roman literature and culture; the epic tradition; elegy; intertextuality; Indo-European linguistics; etymology
Trevor Murphy, Associate Professor of Classics
B. A. 1990 University of Calgary, Ph.D. 1997 University of California, Berkeley
(510) 642-4120
tmmurphy@berkeley.edu
7220 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Roman prose authors, ancient ethnographers and geographers
Nasim Naderseresht, Guest
Michael Nagler, Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature
Ellen Oliensis, Professor of Classics
B.A. 1981 Yale University, Ph.D. 1991 Harvard University
(510) 642-9207
eolien@berkeley.edu
7211 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Roman literature and literary culture
Sarah Olsen, Classics graduate student
BA (Classics and Comparative Literature) Wellesley College, 2008; MA (Classics) UC Berkeley, 2010
solsen@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek literature (esp. archaic poetry, drama, and the ancient novel), dance and performance, gender and sexuality
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Associate Professor of Classics
BA 1998 University of Athens, D.Phil. 2004 Oxford University
(510) 642-7201
papazarkadas@berkeley.edu
7207 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek Epigraphy, Greek History
David Pass, Classics graduate student
J. Theodore Peña, Professor
B.A. 1978 Wesleyan Univesity; M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1987 University of Michigan
(510) 643-8964
tpena@berkeley.edu
7308 Dwinelle
Special interests: Roman archaeology, ancient economy, material culture studies, text-based archaeology, pottery analysis
Lisa Pieraccini, History of Art Visiting Faculty
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Special interests: Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology; Wall Painting; Reception; Funerary Archaeology
Anna Pisarello, Classics graduate student
BA, University of Chicago, 2004; MA, UC Berkeley, 2008
acpisarello@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature and culture; Roman historiography; narratology
Rachel Preminger, Classics graduate student
BA, Reed College 2006; MA UC Berkeley, 2009.
preminger@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Ancient Historiography, Roman Literature and Culture, Pedagogy.
Joel Rygorsky, GSI not from Classics
rygorsky@berkeley.edu
7210 Dwinelle Hall
Dylan Sailor, Associate Professor of Classics
B.A. 1995 University of Washington, M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2002 University of California, Berkeley
(510) 642-4787
dsailor@berkeley.edu
7223 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Roman literature and culture, ancient historiography, Roman rhetoric
Kim Shelton, Associate Professor of Classics, Director of Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology
B.A. 1987 University of Texas at Austin, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1993 University of Pennsylvania
(510) 642-5314
sheltonk@berkeley.edu
7212 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Classical Archaeology, Bronze Age Aegean, Ceramics, Ancient Religion and Mythology
Jenny Smith, Student Services Advisor
510 642-4219
jeno_@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Vivian Sophia, System Administrator
Gary Spears, Management Services Officer
(510) 642-4565
gary.spears@berkeley.edu
7229 Dwinelle Hall
Andrew Stewart, Nicholas C. Petris Professor in Greek Studies, Professor of Art History and Classics; Director, UC Berkeley excavation team, Tel Dor, Israel
B.A. 1969, M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1972 Cambridge University
(510) 642-4524
astewart@berkeley.edu
412 Doe Library
Special interests: Greek sculpture, ancient art and architecture, archaeology, the east after Alexander, the Renaissance and Antiquity
Joel M. Street, PhD candidate
B.A., DePauw '07; M.A., Berkeley '09
joel@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: genre and intertextuality; Greek literature and identity under Rome; spatial, temporal and kinetic metaphors; Greek and Latin pedagogy
Ronald Stroud, Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature Emeritus
B.A. 1957 University of Toronto, Ph.D. 1965 University of California, Berkeley
(510) 642-2134
6221 Dwinelle
Special interests: Greek History and Literature, Greek Epigraphy
Yasmin Syed, Lecturer
Leslie Threatte, Professor emeritus of Classics
Kelsey Turbeville, Classics graduate student
B.A. Wellesley College (2009)
KTurbeville@berkeley.edu
Florence Verducci, Associate Professor emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature
Christopher Waldo, Classics graduate student
BA (Greek and Latin) University of Vermont, 2011
cwaldo@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Pindar, Archaic Greek Poetry, Indo-European Linguistics
Daniel Walin, Lecturer 2013-14
BA Baylor University 2006 (summa cum laude); MA UC Berkeley 2007; PhD UC Berkeley May 11, 2012
dwalin@berkeley.edu
7216 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Latin literature; Greek and Roman drama; comedy
Andrew Wein, Classics Graduate Student
Naomi Weiss, Classics graduate student
BA (Hons) Classics, University of Oxford, Somerville College (2006); MSt, University of Oxford, New College (2007); MA, UC Berkeley (2009)
naomi.weiss@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek tragedy, particularly Euripides; ancient music and dance; archaic Greek poetry; ancient ethnography
Elizabeth Wueste, Classical Archaeology graduate student
B.A. UCLA, Classical Civilizations, 2007; M.A. UC Berkeley, Classical Archaeology, 2009
ewueste@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Roman archaeology and art history, Late Antique studies, honorific monuments, portraiture
Jessica Yao, Classics graduate student
A.B. Princeton University (2012)
jessica.yao@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature, especially in its relationship to the Greek tradition and the adaptation of Greek models to Roman contexts; literary history; intertextuality and inter-poetic dynamics
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Classics graduate student
A.B. Harvard University (2010); M.A. U.C. Berkeley (2011)
michael.zellmann-rohrer@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Paleography, codicology, epigraphy, papyrology, Byzantine Greek and Medieval Latin literature
