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 | Susan Alcock
Archaeology and the Ancient world, Joukowsky Institute for
Classics, Department of
Sue Alcock is a classical archaeologist, with interests in the material culture of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia, particularly in Hellenistic and Roman times. Much of her research to date has revolved around themes of landscape, imperialism, sacred space, and memory. Her fieldwork has, until recently, taken the form of regional investigations in Greece, but she is now involved with the Vorotan Project, an international collaborative effort in southern Armenia. |  | Elsa Amanatidou
Classics, Department of
Language Studies, Center for
Elsa Amanatidou is primarily interested in FLLT Methodology, testing and evaluation and the role of literature and cultural enquiry in the development of linguistic and cultural competence. |  | John Bodel
Classics, Department of
John Bodel is mainly interested in Roman social, cultural, and economic history and in Latin literature of the early Empire. Much of his research involves Roman inscriptions in one way or another, and he has a general interest in ancient funerals and burial customs, Roman religion, ancient slavery, and the editing of Latin texts. He directs the U.S. Epigraphy Project and since 2001 has been involved with the EpiDoc team in developing a set of conventions for editing inscriptions digitally in XML. |  | Deborah Boedeker
Classics, Department of
Her research and teaching interests include archaic and classical Greek religion, poetry, and historiography – and particularly the mutual influences and confluences of these aspects of ancient culture. In addition to publications on archaic poetry, Euripides, religious and mythical traditions, and Herodotus, she has edited and co-authored a number of volumes on topics in early Greek literature and culture. |  | John Cherry
Classics, Department of
Archaeology and the Ancient world, Joukowsky Institute for
John Cherry's teaching and research interests, and thus also his publications, are eclectic, and reflect his "mixed" background in Classics, Anthropology, and Archaeology, as well as educational training on both sides of the Atlantic, and archaeological fieldwork experience in Great Britain, the United States, Yugoslavia, Albania, Italy, and (especially) Greece and (currently) Armenia. | | | Jeri Debrohun
Classics, Department of
Jeri DeBrohun's research interests include both Hellenistic Greek and Republican and Augustan Latin poetry and culture, with particular emphasis on allusion and genre. She is also interested in cultural poetics and is currently researching and writing a book on dress as an expressive medium in the ancient world. |  | James Fitzgerald
Classics, Department of
Religious Studies, Department of
| | | Mary Louise Gill
Classics, Department of
Philosophy, Department of
Mary Louise Gill specializes in ancient Greek philosophy with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity (Princeton University Press), and she co-translated and wrote the introduction for Plato: Parmenides (Hackett Publishing). She is co-editor of Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton (Princeton); Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics (Oxford University Press), and most recently, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing). | | | Rivi Handler-Spitz
Classics, Department of
| | | Kenneth Haynes
Comparative Literature, Department of
Classics, Department of
Kenneth Haynes studies the classical tradition in European literature and philosophy since the Renaissance, with particular attention to German and British Hellenism. |  | David Konstan
Classics, Department of
David Konstan's research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, and on classical and Hellenistic philosophy. In recent years, he has investigated the emotions and value concepts of classical Greece in Rome. He has written books on friendship in the classical world, the notion of pity in both pagan and Christian thought, and most recently a study of the emotions of the ancient Greeks. He has also worked on ancient Greek physics and atomic theory, and on ancient literary theory. |  | Lisa Mignone
Classics, Department of
Lisa Mignone's area of interest is the social history of the Roman Republic, with a particular focus on the relationship of place and historical events in the city of Rome. She received her graduate training in Classical Studies at Columbia University. She was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome and at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and comes to Brown after a year at NYU. Her current work reconstructs the social and urban history of Rome's Aventine Hill throughout the republic. | | | Pura Nieto Hernandez
Classics, Department of
She explores the intersection between poetics and mythology in the Greek tradition, especially in Homer, Archaic, and Hellenistic poetry. She is also interested in the theoretical problems concerning the definition and analysis of myths, and she has done some work in Greek linguistics. She has published papers and book reviews on all these subjetcs. Presently she is working on the language of the Homeric simile and the question of relative chronology in the Homeric poems. |  | René Nünlist (Nuenlist)
Classics, Department of
| | | Stratis Papaioannou
Classics, Department of
Medieval Studies
Stratis Papaioannou studies post-classical Greek literary and cultural history, especially late antique and Byzantine writing in its social context. His wider interests are in premodern book and letter-writing cultures, literary aesthetics, and concepts of gender, self, and desire. Papaioannou has published on Gregory of Nazianzus and, especially, Michael Psellos, while his work is divided in interpretative study, critical edition, and translation. |  | Joseph Michael Pucci
Classics, Department of
Medieval Studies
Joseph Pucci has research interests in late antiquity, late Latin, medieval Latin, and comparative literary history with a focus on literary allusion, ancient education, and poetic genres. He also has interests in biography as a literary form (and as practitioner) and in literature and the American presidency. | | | Joseph D. Reed
Classics, Department of
| | | Adele Scafuro
Classics, Department of
In 1997, her book, The Forensic Stage: Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy, appeared. There she compares legal scenarios of New Comedy to those in the 4th century Attic orators. Also in 1997, she began studying epigraphy in Athens. Naturally, she has gravitated toward 'legal inscriptions.' She is now finishing a book on Athenian law (The Economy of Risk: Prosecutor and Legal Procedure in Classical Athens) and a translation of some speeches of Demosthenes. |  | Peter Scharf
Classics, Department of
Scharf is interested in the intellectual history of Indian linguistic description, conceptions of the self, and the creativity expressed through the adaptation of ancient narratives in new contexts. One long-term research project is to correlate Indian linguistic descriptions with extant Sanskrit texts. Another is to reedit the encyclopedic work of the medieval Vedic commentator Sadgurusisya. In collaboration with colleagues he is building an international digital Sanskrit library. |
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