People
Christopher Adams, Classics graduate student (chadams)
Lee Amazonas, Student Services Adviser
(510) 642-4219
casmauga@berkeley.edu
7307 Dwinelle Hall
John Anderson, Professor emeritus
Rachel Anderson, Graduate Student
William Anderson, Professor emeritus
B.A. 1950 Yale University, B.A., M.A. 1952 Cambridge University, Ph.D. 1954 Yale University
(510) 642-1112
wsand@berkeley.edu
7212 Dwinelle
Special interests: Latin Literature.
Elias Avinger, Classics graduate student (elias)
(510) 643-5672
elias@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Frank Bezner, Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
M.A. 1996, Ph.D./Dr.phil. 2000 University of Tuebingen
n/a (budget cuts)
fbezner@berkeley.edu
4335 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Medieval Latin Literature and Literary Culture; Neo-Latin Literature; Intellectual History; Material Philology
Justin Boner, Graduate Student
Caroline Boyden, web designer
Christopher Bravo, Graduate Student Instructor
(510) 643-8405
bravoc@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Marshall Brekka, Guest
Ari Bryen, ACLS Faculty Fellow in Rhetoric and Classics
Ph.D., Chicago 2008
(510) 642-1415
azbryen@berkeley.edu
7327 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Ancient History, Law, Payprology, Imperialism, Violence, Comparison
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
sari_88@berkeley.edu
7233 Dwinelle Hall
Christopher Churchill, Classics graduate student (cchurch)
BA Wesleyan University (2000); MA UCB (2006)
(510) 642-9427
cchurch@socrates.berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin literature (especially Augustan poetry, as well as Latin epic more broadly); Roman history and historiography
Sydney Cochran, Graduate Student from Comparative Literature
(510) 642-9427
sydney_cochran@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
David Cohen, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor 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, Classics graduate student (dccrane)
MA, UC Berkeley, 2005; AB, UChicago, 2002
(510) 643-5672
dccrane@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Roman Philosophy, Greek Literature
Stefani Dixon (s.dixon), Graduate Student
B.A. Classics, CUNY Brooklyn (2010)
Special interests: Latin Elegy, Roman Satire, Comedy, Gender and Sexuality
Timothy Doran, Graduate Student Instructor
(510) 642-9427
doran@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Timothy Doran, Graduate Student Instructor
(510) 642-9427
doran@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Cassandra Dunn, Student Services Adviser
(510) 642-3672
casmaast@berkeley.edu
7228 Dwinelle Hall
Lisa Eberle, Graduate Student Instructor
Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Classics graduate student (sasha.eccleston)
B.A. (Greek, Latin, Literary Arts) Brown University, M.Phil. (Greek and Latin) Oxford
(510) 642-9427
sasha.eccleston@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
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, Graduate Student
Seth Estrin (sestrin), 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.
(510) 642-9427
sestrin@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Marilyn Evans (jmarilynevans), Graduate student in Classical Archaeology
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
Sumi Furiya, Assistant Professor
B.A. 1989 Hunter College, Ph.D. 2004 Harvard University
(510) 643-7118
sfuriya@berkeley.edu
7214 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Roman literature, esp. Republican and Augustan poetry
Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics
Special interests: Indo-European languages and historical linguistics
Crawford Greenewalt, Professor
B.A. 1959 Harvard College, Ph.D. 1966 University of Pennsylvania
(510) 642-5304
chg@berkeley.edu
7209 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology; Director of Sardis Excavations
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
Brendan Haug, Graduate Student Instructor
Brendan Haug, Graduate Student Instructor
Tom Hendrickson, Classics graduate student (thendrickson)
B.A. University of Minnesota; M.A. University of California, Berkeley
thendrickson@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature (especially historiography and biography), ancient culture and society, and linguistics.
Ralph Hexter, Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature (now President of Hampshire College)
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
Jared Hudson, Classics graduate student (jhudson)
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
David Jacobson, Lecturer
B.A. 2000, University of California, Santa Cruz, M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2011, University of California, Berkeley
davidj@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek Literature, Drama, Performance, and Mythology
Morgan King, Graduate Student
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, 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
John T. Lanier, GSI not from Classics
(510) 642-9427
john.lanier@gmail.com
7227 Dwinelle Hall
John T. Lanier, GSI not from Classics
(510) 642-9427
john.lanier@gmail.com
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Rachel Lesser (rlesser), Classics graduate student
B.A. Classics, Columbia (2006); B.A. Classics and English, Oxford (2008), M.A. Classics, UC Berkeley (2009)
(510) 642-9427
rlesser@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Latin poetry, erotics, Victorian and Modernist English literature, reception studies
Virginia Lewis, Classics graduate student (vlewis)
BA University of Pennsylvania 2004; MA University of Georgia 2007
(510) 642-9427
vlewis@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Nancy Lichtenstein, CASMA Academic Personnel Specialist
(510) 642-4346
nancylichtenstein@berkeley.edu
7224 Dwinelle Hall
Anthony Long, Professor of Classics and Irving G. Stone Professor 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, Assistant 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
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, Graduate Student
B.A. St. John's College (2009), Post-Baccalaureate UCLA (2009-2010)
mfmcclay@berkeley.edu
Derin McLeod, Classics graduate student (derin.mcleod)
BA Yale University (2008); MPhil Cambridge University (2009); MA UC Berkeley (2010)
(510) 643-5672
derin.mcleod@berkeley.edu
7303 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 (kmoch), Graduate Student
A.B. Classics, Princeton University (2010)
James Morton, Graduate Student
Charles Murgia, Professor emeritus of Classics
A.B. 1956 Boston College, Ph.D. 1966 Harvard University
(510) 642-1112
cem@berkeley.edu
7212 Dwinelle
Special interests: Latin Literature and Textual Criticism
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, Head Graduate Adviser; 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 (solsen)
BA (Classics and Comparative Literature) Wellesley College, 2008; MA (Classics) UC Berkeley, 2010
(510) 643-5672
solsen@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek literature (esp. archaic poetry, Lucian, and the ancient novel), dance and performance, gender and sexuality
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Assistant 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 (davidbp)
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
Timothy Pepper, Classics graduate student (twp)
Ph.D. expected 2010; MA in Classics (UC Berkeley, 2003), AB in Classics (Harvard College, 2000)
(510) 643-8405
twp@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek and Latin Literature, Papyrology, Cultural History, Translation
Anna Pisarello, Classics graduate student (acpisarello)
BA, University of Chicago, 2004; MA, UC Berkeley, 2008
acpisarello@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature and culture; Roman historiography; narratology
Erin M Pitt, Graduate Student Instructor
Rachel Preminger, Classics graduate student
(510) 643-5672
preminger@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Nicholas Purcell, Spring 2012 Sather Professor
(510) 642-2410
nicholas.purcell@berkeley.edu
7210 Dwinelle Hall
Hannah Rivera, Graduate Student
(510) 643-5672
hrivera@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
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
Maria Schulman, Classics graduate student
Kim Shelton, Assistant 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
Gregory Smay, Graduate Student
(510) 643-8405
gsmay@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Randall Souza, Graduate Student Instructor
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, Classics graduate student
B.A., DePauw '07; M.A., Berkeley '09
joel@berkeley.edu
Special interests: genre and intertextuality; choral lyric and the performance of tragedy; mimesis in the works of Plutarch; gender and sexuality
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
ysyed@berkeley.edu
7216 Dwinelle Hall
Leslie Threatte, Professor emeritus of Classics
Kelsey Turbeville, Graduate Student
Florence Verducci, Associate Professor emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature
Daniel Walin, Classics graduate student (dwalin)
BA Baylor University 2006; MA UC Berkeley 2007; PhD UC Berkeley expected May 11, 2012
dwalin@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek and Latin literature; Greek drama; slavery in ancient Greece
Eli Weaverdyck, Graduate Student Instructor
(510) 643-5672
eweaverdyck@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Naomi Weiss, Classics graduate student (naomi.weiss)
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
ewueste@berkeley.edu
7303 Dwinelle Hall
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Graduate Student
