Faculty
![Image of Prof. Darlene Brooks Hedstrom](images/faculty/darlenebrookshedstrom.jpg)
Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity; material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East; Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean world; foodways in late antiquity
Expertise: Medieval and premodern literature and philosophy; Dante studies; disability studies; crip theory; women, gender, and sexuality studies; Italian studies; comparative literature; digital humanities
![Joel P. Christensen](images/faculty/christensen-joel.jpg)
Expertise: Classical philology. Homeric epic and the relationship between the epics and mythopoetic traditions; "Odyssey" and modern psychology; pedagogy and Homeric epic; leadership in the Greek and Roman world
![Caitlin Gillespie](images/faculty/gillespie.jpg)
Expertise: Early Imperial Latin literature, gender and power in the Ancient World, Roman Britain, Roman exemplarity
![Eóin O'Donoghue](images/faculty/odonoghue-eoin.jpg)
Expertise: Archaeology of pre-Roman and Roman Italy, especially Etruria; Phoenician and Punic archaeology; social and gender identities in the ancient Mediterranean
Current fieldwork with the Poggio Civitate Excavation Project and the Pantelleria Project
![Alexandra Ratzlaff](images/faculty/alexratzlaffpicture.jpg)
Expertise: Classical and Near Eastern archaeology, ceramic analysis, digital humanities, late antique economy, the Roman army, and archaeological theory
Visit the Birsama Archaeological Project website.
![Rebecca Sausville](images/faculty/sausville.jpg)
Expertise: Hellenistic and imperial Greek history; Imperial Greek literature; Greek epigraphy; Greek cultural history; urban identity.
![Picture of Dr. Natalie Susmann](images/faculty/natlisusmann.jpg)
Expertise: Greek sacred landscapes; nature; memory; sensory experiences; ancient travel writers and geographers; tourism and pilgrimages
Honorary Visiting Scholar
![Image of Cynthia Lepofsky](images/faculty/cynthia-lepofsky-photo.png)
Affiliated Faculty
Cooperating Faculty
![charles golden](images/faculty/golden-charles.jpg)
Expertise: Maya, archaeology of complex societies, landscape
![charles mcclendon](images/faculty/mcclendon-charles.jpg)
Expertise: Medieval art and architecture
![Javier Urcid](images/faculty/urcid-javier.jpg)
Expertise: Bioarchaeology, complex societies, writing systems, Mesoamerica
Faculty Emeriti
![Bernadette Brooten](images/faculty/brooten-bernadette.jpg)
Expertise: Christian studies
Expertise: Latin and Greek language and literature, classical myth and religion
![Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow](images/faculty/koloski-ostrow-ann.jpg)
Expertise: Roman and Greek art and archaeology; Latin language and literature; mythology in Greek and Roman art; Roman social history and daily life
Expertise: Greek and Latin language and literature, with special interest in Greek epic, lyric and tragic poetry, the historical study of Ancient Greek language, and the comparative study of mythology and religion
![Cheryl Walker](images/faculty/walker-cheryl.jpg)
Expertise: Roman and Greek history