Permanent Faculty

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Faculty

John Anderson

Professor emeritus

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.

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

William Fitzgerald

Professor emeritus of Classics and Rhetoric

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

Ralph Hexter

Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature (now Provost and EVC, UC Davis)

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

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

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

Michael Nagler

Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature
mnagler@berkeley.edu

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

Leslie Threatte

Professor emeritus of Classics

Florence Verducci

Associate Professor emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature

Permanent Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Visiting Faculty and Lecturers

Affiliated Berkeley Faculty