Core Faculty
Deborah Beck
Associate Professor
deborah.beck@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-5834 |
WAG 21
Education: PhD 1997, Harvard University
Interests: Formulas and oral aesthetics in early Greek poetry; cognitive theories of reading and image processing; speech and speech representation in Homeric epic; representations of art and interpretation in Augustan Latin poetry
Naomi Campa
Assistant Professor
campa@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-7890 |
WAG 13
Education: PhD 2014, University of Washington
Pramit Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
pramit.chaudhuri@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5742 |
WAG 107, WAG 123
Education: Ph.D., Classics and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Todd A. Curtis
Senior Lecturer
todd.curtis@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5018 |
WAG 200A
Education: PhD, Newcastle University, UK
Interests: Ancient medicine and its reception, Rhetoric of ancient science
Lesley A Dean-Jones
Professor; Department Chair
ldjones@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-2352 |
WAG 123B
Education: Ph.D. 1987, Stanford
Interests: Ancient Medicine, Ancient Philosophy, Greek Literature, Women in Antiquity
Jennifer V Ebbeler
Associate Professor
jebbeler@austin.utexas.edu |
471-7570 |
WAG 14CA
Education: PhD 2001, University of Pennsylvania
Joann Gulizio
Senior Lecturer
(512)471-1830 |
WAG 211
Education: Ph.D. 2011, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Greek Archaeology; Ancient Greek Religion; Linear B Studies; Mycenaean Ceramic Studies; Minoan and Mycenaean Religion; Latin Pedagogy
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov
Associate Professor
ayelet.haimsonlushkov@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-7296 |
WAG 109
Education: PhD 2009, Yale University
Interests: Roman History and Latin Literature
Thomas G Palaima
Professor: Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP)
tpalaima@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5742 or 512-471-8837 |
WAG 14AA WAG 123B
Education: Ph.D. 1980, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Aegean scripts & prehistory, Greek language, war & violence studies, public intellectual writing, music as social criticism, Dylanology
Paula J Perlman
Professor
perlman@austin.utexas.edu |
471-7402 |
WAG 119
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
Adam T Rabinowitz
Associate Professor; Assistant Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology
arabinow@utexas.edu |
471-0197 |
WAG 17
Education: PhD 2004, University of Michigan
Interests: Greek colonization, cultural interaction, ancient food and drink, archaeology of daily life, digital approaches to archaeology
Andrew M Riggsby
Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor and Graduate Adviser in Classics, Professor of Art History
ariggsby@mail.utexas.edu |
471-7442 |
WAG 103
Education: Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Rabun M Taylor
Professor: Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor and Faculty Undergraduate Advisor
rmtaylor@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0677 |
WAG 14B
Education: PhD 1997, University of Minnesota
Interests: Greek and Roman art, architecture, archaeology, urbanism, social history, and material culture
D. Alex Walthall
Assistant Professor
dwalthall@austin.utexas.edu |
WAG 213
Education: PhD 2013, Princeton University
Interests: Archaeology of ancient Sicily, Numismatics, Hellenistic monarchy
Stephen A White
Professor of Classics and Philosophy
sawhite@utexas.edu |
WAG 117
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Ancient philosophy, Greek literature
Lecturers
Steve Lundy
Lecturer
steven.lundy@utexas.edu |
(512)471-8724 |
WAG 227
Education: Ph.D. 2013, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Intellectual & Cultural History of the Late Republic & Early Principate; Latin Prose, esp. Philosophy; Roman Political History; Historiography of Linguistics
Kevin Pluta
Research Fellow, Program in Aegean Scripts and History (PASP); Lecturer
kpluta@austin.utexas.edu |
WAG 14A
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Bronze Age Archaeology; Greek Alphabet, World Scripts, and Literacy; Indo-European Linguistics; IT and Archaeological Database Design and Implementation
Laura Brooke Rich
Lecturer
Interests: Roman cultural history, Latin literature, women in antiquity, linguistics
Professors Emeriti
David Armstrong
Professor Emeritus
davidarm@austin.utexas.edu |
471-5742 |
WAG 110
Education: PhD, The University of Texas Austin
Interests: Latin Poetry, Ancient Literary Criticism, Hellenistic and Roman Literature
Joseph C Carter
Professor Emeritus
j.carter@austin.utexas.edu |
232-9321 |
MCC 1.406
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Interests: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
Ingrid M Edlund-Berry
Professor Emerita
iemeb@austin.utexas.edu |
471-3071 |
WAG 110
Interests: Etruscan and Italian archaeology and culture
Michael Gagarin
James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor Emeritus
gagarin@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8864 |
WAG 15
Interests: Greek Law, Literature, and Philosophy
Karl Galinsky
Professor Emeritus: Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor
galinsky@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8504 |
WAG 215
Education: Ph.D., Princeton
Interests: Roman Literature and Civilization; Cultural Memory in Ancient Rome; Classical Tradition in Popular Culture
Peter M Green
James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics
peter-green-1@uiowa.edu |
471-5742 |
WAG 123
Interests: Greek History, Greek Literature, Roman Satire and Elegy
Alexander Mourelatos
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics
apdm@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6749 |
WAG 200C
Education: PhD, Yale
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Science, Linguistic Theory, Modern Greek Studies
Cynthia W Shelmerdine
Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor Emerita of Classics
cwshelm@gmail.com |
471-5742 |
N/A
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Aegean Bronze Age
Assistant Instructors
William Farris
Assistant Instructor
Education: M.H., University of Dallas
Interests: Intertextuality; Narratology; Cognitive Classics; Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius, Lycophron, Virgil, Lucan
Nathaniel Katz
Assistant Instructor
nsk@utexas.edu |
WAG 215
Interests: Roman history (especially of the imperial succession) and numismatics
Michele Mitrovich
Assistant Instructor
Education: Third-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin
Affiliated Faculty
Marc Bizer
Professor of French Studies
mbizer@utexas.edu |
512-471-7780 |
HRH 3.112B
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Interests: Reception of Classical Texts in Early Modern France, Renaissance Latin Literature; Classical Tradition, Tragedy and the Tragic, history of emotions
John R. Clarke
Professor of Art History
j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu |
DFA 2.114
Education: PhD, Yale
Interests: Greek & Roman Art and Architecture
Penelope Davies
Associate Professor of Art History
pdavies@mail.utexas.edu |
ART 3.435
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: Roman Art and Architecture
Steven J. Friesen
Professor of Religious Studies and Classics: Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
friesen@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
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
Ulf R Hansson
Research Fellow
ulf.hansson@austin.utexas.edu |
471-5742
Education: PhD, University of Gothenburg
Interests: Etruscan and Early Roman Art and Archaeology; Sphragistics; History of Antiquarianism and Archaeology; Early Modern Reception of Ancient Art and Culture
Sara E Kimball
Associate Professor of English
kimballs321@gmail.com |
471-8363 |
CAL 15
Education: Ph.D., 1983, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Hittitology
Jennifer Moody
University Affiliate - Research Fellow
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Interests: Archaeology and environmental history of the Aegean (especially Crete)
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
Athanasio Papalexandrou
Associate Professor of Art History
papalex@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5021 |
ART 3.404
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
L. Michael White
Professor of Classics and Religious Studies: Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: New Testament and Christian Origins, Jews & Christians in the Roman World, Graeco-Roman Religions, Archaeology
Paul B Woodruff
Professor of Philosophy and Classics; Dean of Undergraduate Studies
paul.woodruff@austin.utexas.edu |
475-7000 |
FAC 406
Education: PhD, Princeton
Interests: Ethics, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, aesthetics, philosophy and literature
Marjorie Curry Woods
Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu |
471 8383 |
CAL 301
Education: Ph.D., U. of Toronto
Interests: Latin Palaoegraphy, Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval and Neo-Latin, History of Rhetoric, and the Classical Tradition (esp. in Pedagogy)
