Faculty
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
MEHMET-ALI ATAÇ (Ph.D. Harvard), Associate Professor of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Egypt
Research interests: Visual and intellectual traditions of the ancient Near East, Neo-Assyrian art and architecture, ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian kingship.
A.
A. DONOHUE (Ph.D., N.Y.U.), Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Graduate Advisor
Research interests: History and historiography of classical art.
PETER
MAGEE (Ph.D., University of Sydney), Associate Professor
Research interests: Archaeology of imperialism in south and west Asia, human habitation of arid environments and the history of European exploration of the Middle East, particularly Arabia.
ASTRID LINDENLAUF (Ph.D. University College, London) Assisant Professor
Research interests: Greek Art and Archaeology; fortification and warfare; urbanism; disposal and recycling practices.
JAMES
C. WRIGHT (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr), Professor and Chair
Research interests: Aegean prehistory and Greek archaeology, spatial theory, archaeological theory and method.
Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
ANNETTE M. BAERTSCHI (Ph.D. Humboldt University), Associate Professor
Research interests: Roman literature, especially post-Augustan poetry; Greek and Latin epic; ancient drama (tragedy) and performance; reception of classical literature and culture; ancient magic and religion; Latin meter; Renaissance and Neo-Latin studies.
CATHERINE CONYBEARE (Ph.D. University of Toronto), Professor, Director of Graduate Group, Graduate Advisor
Research interests: Late Antiquity, Early Christian Studies, contemporary theory
RADCLIFFE G. EDMONDS III (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Associate Professor
Research interests: Greek myth, Greco-Roman religion and magic, Greek philosophy
RUSSELL T. SCOTT (Ph.D. Yale), Doreen C. Spitzer Professor of Latin and Classical Studies
Research interests: Roman history and historiography, Roman archaeology and history of the republican and imperial periods with special reference to Italy and the western provinces
ASYA SIGELMAN (Ph.D. Brown University), Assistant Professor
Research interests: Homeric epic, Archaic Greek lyric, Athenian tragedy, the biography genre, Greek and Roman novel
Department of History of Art
DAVID J. CAST (Ph.D. Columbia University), Professor
Research interests: Renaissance art and criticism, architecture since 1400, British art of the 20th century
CHRISTIANE HERTEL (Ph.D. Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen), Professor and Major Advisor
Research interests: German, Austrian and Netherlandish art
HOMAY KING (Ph.D. Berkeley), Associate Professor and Director of Program in Film Studies, and Director of the Center for Visual Culture 2010-2011
Research interests: American film history, film theory, and feminist, psychoanalytic and rhetorical theory
STEVEN Z. LEVINE (Ph.D. Harvard), Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, Chair, and Graduate Advisor
Research interests: 16th- to 20th-century French painting, poetry, philosophy; psychoanalysis, self-portraiture, visual theory
GRIDLEY McKIM-SMITH (Ph.D. Harvard), Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Research interests: Spanish Golden Age art, art and technology, and arts of Latin America
LISA SALTZMAN (Ph.D. Harvard), Professor
Research interests: Post-World War II art and theory, gender and identity, memory and trauma.
ALICIA WALKER, Assistant Professor
Research interests: Byzantine art and architectural history, particularly of the early and middle periods; cross-cultural interaction in the medival world; gender and sexuality in medieval art and culture.
Affiliated Faculty
CAROLA HEIN (Dr.-Ing. Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg), Professor in the Program in Growth and Structure of Cities (On leave 2010-2011)
MADHAVI KALE (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Professor of History on the Helen Taft Manning Fund
IMKE MEYER, Professor of German and co-Chair
Research interests: 19th and 20th century German and Austrian literature; German and European intellectual and literary history; German and Austrian film; gender and sexuality studies.
Emeriti
RICHARD ELLIS, Professor Emeritus
Research interests: Near Eastern Archaeology
JULIA H. GAISSER (Ph.D. Edinburgh), Eugenia Chase Guild Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Latin Emeritus
Research interests: Republican and Augustan poetry, the classical tradition
RICHARD HAMILTON (Ph.D. University of Michigan), Paul Shorey Professor of Greek Emeritus ; he served as Director of Graduate Group from January 2005-August 2006.
Research interests: Greek lyric poetry, Greek drama, Greek religion
STELLA MILLER-COLLETT, Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Emeritus
Research interests: Ancient Painting, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Macedonian Archaeology
BARBARA MILLER LANE (Ph.D. Harvard), Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History.
Professor Miller Lane served as Director of the Graduate Group in Classics, Archaeology and History of Art from May to December 2004.
BRUNILDE S. RIDGWAY, Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Emeritus
Research interests: Greek and Roman Sculpture, and Roman Archaeology
DALE KINNEY (Ph.D. N.Y.U.), Professor Emeritus
Research interests: Late antique art, medieval Rome, Spolia
