Bryn Mawr College

Faculty

Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

JAMES C. WRIGHT (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr), Professor and Chair
Research interests: Aegean prehistory and Greek archaeology, spatial theory, archaeological theory and method.

MEHMET-ALI ATAÇ (Ph.D. Harvard), Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor, Acting Director of Graduate Group
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.), Professor

Research interests: History and historiography of classical art. A.A. Donohue's research focusses on the history and historiography of classical art. She teaches courses on the art, archaeology, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and their influence on Western culture, including courses on conceptions of the natural and social world, conceptions of the body, and warfare.

ASTRID LINDENLAUF, Assisant Professor

Research interests: In my research I aim to challenge the entrenched oppositions between archaeology, philology, history and sociology, following the tradition of material culture studies. I have investigated patterns of disposal and recycling in ancient Greece, biographies of artefacts and other key issues in the field of Classical Art and Archaeology, including questions of absolute chronology. Currently I explore the urban development of ancient Athens by studying the successive walls from the Mycenaean period to the 18th century A.D. Apart from published data this project uses my new documentation of the city-walls in the Kerameikos of Athens. I am also interested in the use and perception of Athenian vases. My teaching repertory at Bryn Mawr College includes courses at both undergraduate and graduate level. I offer courses on Greek Vase Painting, the Villa dei Papiri, on Ancient Landscapes, and on the Archaeology of Rubbish and Recycling.

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.

 

Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies

ANNETTE M. BAERTSCHI (Ph.D. Humboldt University), Assistant Professor, Graduate Advisor
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.

FRANCISCO BARRENECHEA (Ph.D. Columbia University), Visiting Assistant Profesor

Research Interests: Ancient theater (history, performance theory, and contemporary adaptations); Greek literature (Old and New Comedy, Euripides, Hellenistic poetry); Latin literature (epic, drama, novel); papyrology

CATHERINE CONYBEARE (Ph.D. University of Toronto), Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Group (on leave semester I & II)
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

RICHARD HAMILTON (Ph.D. University of Michigan), Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Chair; he served as Director of Graduate Group from January 2005-August 2006.
Research interests: Greek lyric poetry, Greek drama, Greek religion

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

 

 

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 2009-2010
Research interests: American film history, film theory, and feminist, psychoanalytic and rhetorical theory

DALE KINNEY (Ph.D. N.Y.U.), Professor
Research interests: Late antique art, medieval Rome, Spolia

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 and Director of the Center for Visual Culture
Research interests: Post-World War II art and theory, gender and identity, memory and trauma.

 

Affiliated Faculty

JEFFREY A. COHEN (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), Director of the Digital Media and Visual Resource Center and Lecturer in the Progam in Growth and Structure of Cities

RICHARD ELLIS, Professor Emeritus

Research interests: Near Eastern Archaeolog

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

CAROLA HEIN (Dr.-Ing. Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg), Associate Professor in the Program in Growth and Structure of Cities

MADHAVI KALE (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of History on the Helen Taft Manning Fund

BARBARA MILLER LANE (Ph.D. Harvard), Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History.

She served as Director of the Graduate Group in Classics, Archaeology and History of Art from May to December 2004.

STELLA MILLER-COLLETT, Professor Emerita

Research interests: Ancient Painting, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Macedonian Archaeology

BRUNILDE S. RIDGWAY, Professor Emerita

Research interests: Greek and Roman Sculpture, and Roman Archaeology