Permanent Faculty
Maurizio Bettini
Visiting Professor of Classics (next visit: Spring 2008)
642-0216
mauriziobettini@berkeley.edu
7221 Dwinelle Hall
Frank Bezner
Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
M.A. 1996, Ph.D. (Dr.phil.) 2000 University of Tuebingen
(510) 642-3199
fbezner@berkeley.edu
4335 Dwinelle
Special interests: Medieval Latin Literature and Literary 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.
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
Special interests: ancient rhetoric, classical Greek law, political and legal theory
Susanna Elm
Professor of History and Classics
D.Phil. 1986 Oxford University
(510) 642-2238
elm@berkeley.edu
2310 Dwinelle
Special interests: Late Antiquity, Later Roman Empire, Early Christianity
G.R.F. (John) Ferrari
Professor of Classics, Department Chair
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.
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
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
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
Assistant Professor/Assistant Research Papyrologist
A.B. 1990 (University of Pennsylvania), A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 2001 (University of Chicago)
(510) 642-4556
thickey@library.berkeley.edu
The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
Special interests: Papyrology (Greek and Egyptian), social and economic history, Late Antiquity
Leslie Kurke
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Special interests: Greek sculpture, ancient art and architecture, archaeology, the east after Alexander, the Renaissance and Antiquity
Emeritus Faculty
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.
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
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 President of Hampshire College)
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
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
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
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
Visiting Faculty
Maurizio Bettini
Visiting Professor of Classics (next visit: Spring 2008)
642-0216
mauriziobettini@berkeley.edu
7221 Dwinelle Hall
Affiliated Berkeley Faculty
Andrew Garrett
Professor of Linguistics
Special interests: Indo-European languages and historical linguistics
Gary Holland
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Special interests: Indo-European languages and historical linguistics
Emily Mackil
Assistant Professor of History
Special interests: Greek history; Epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics