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Classical Studies Faculty

The Department is located on the 1st floor of the Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building (MHRA) at the corner of Spring Garden and Forest Streets. Our corridor is immediately on the left (and partially hidden by a column!) as you come in the front entrance.

Maura Heyn

Maura K. Heyn

Office: 1109 MHRA
Phone: 256-0471

e-mail: mkheyn@uncg.edu
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002)

Special Interests: Art and Archaeology of the Roman empire, Archaeological
Theory (especially pertaining to culture change)
Joanne Murphy

Joanne M. Murphy

Office: 1112 MHRA
Phone: 334-9904

e-mail: jmmurph2@uncg.edu
Assistant Professor  (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2003)

Special Interests: Aegean Archaeology, Archaeology of Religion, Archaeology of Mortuary Systems, Archaeological Methods and Theory

Hugh Parker

Hugh C. Parker

Office: 1111 MHRA
Phone: 334-5703

e-mail: hcparker@uncg.edu
Associate Professor  (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1990)

Special Interests: Silver Latin Literature, Ovid, Medieval Latin
Susan Shelmerdine

Susan C. Shelmerdine

Office: 1103 MHRA
Phone: 334-5719

e-mail: shelmerd@uncg.edu
web site
Professor and Head (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981)

Special Interests: Homeric and Archaic Greek Poetry, Greek Tragedy,
Mythology and Religion, Greek and Latin Pedagogy
Jeff Soles

Jeffrey S. Soles

Office: 1107 MHRA
Phone: 334-5590

e-mail: jssoles@uncg.edu
Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1973)

Special Interests: Aegean Archaeology, Greek Archaeology
Dave Wharton

David B. Wharton

Office: 1115 MHRA
Phone: 334-5726

e-mail: wharton@uncg.edu
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992)

Special Interests: Linguistics, Latin Poetry, Greek Philosophy
Jonathan Zarecki

Jonathan P. Zarecki

Office: 1113 MHRA
Phone: 334-4902

e-mail:jpzareck@uncg.edu
web site
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2005)

Special Interests: Republican Literature, Roman History, Roman Philosophy, Rhetoric & Oratory

 

Lecturers / Visiting Assistant Professors
Linda Danford

Linda C. Danford

Office: 1108 MHRA
Phone: 334-5729

e-mail: lcdanfor@uncg.edu
web site
Lecturer (M.A., Yale University, 1979)

Special Interests: Mythology, Women in Antiquity, Latin Pedagogy
R. Muich

Rebecca M. Muich

Office: 1113 MHRA
Phone: 334-5214

e-mail: rmmuich@uncg.edu
Lecturer (M.A., University of Florida, 2004)

Special Interests: Greek Epic & Tragedy, Women & Gender in the Ancient World, Roman History & Historiography, Ancient Religion

Bob Simmons

Robert Holschuh Simmons

Office: 1110 MHRA
Phone: 334-5727

e-mail: rhsimmon@uncg.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2006)

Special Interests: Athenian Tragedy, Homeric Epic, Roman Epic

 

Recent Former Faculty -- contact information:

Tom Kohn

Thomas Kohn
    Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)
e-mail: tdkohn@wayne.edu
Mike Nerdahl

Michael Nerdahl
    Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
e-mail: mnerdahl@bowdoin.edu

John Starks

John Starks
    SUNY-Binghamton (Binghamton, NY)
e-mail: jstarks@binghamton.edu

Kathryn Williams

Kathryn Williams
    Canisius College (Buffalo, NY)
e-mail: kathryn.williams@canisius.edu

 

Page updated: 24-Aug-2008

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Department of Classical Studies
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1104 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
VOICE 336.334.5214
FAX 336.334.5158