Faculty

  • Elsa Amanatidou

    Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, Modern Greek Studies Program Director

    Wilbour Hall, Room 301

    Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy; Interculturality; Strategies of Delivery and Assessment; Educational Technologies

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00pm, or by appointment. 

  • John Bodel

    W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Professor of History

    Macfarlane House, Room 204

    Research Interests: Roman History, Literature, and Epigraphy (especially of the Empire)

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00 - 2:30pm in MacFarlane House, Room 204 or by appointment (in person or by Zoom).

  • David Buchta

    Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit

    Wilbour Hall, Room 005

    Research Interests: Sanskrit Literature; particularly Poetics, Grammar, and Late Medieval Religious Literature 

  • Jonathan Conant

    Associate Professor of History and Classics

    Sharpe House, Room 315

    Research Interests: Late ancient and early medieval history; Interregional connectivity; Rural communities; Violence

  • Jeri DeBrohun

    Associate Professor of Classics

    Macfarlane House, Room 205

    Research Interests: Latin Poetry of the Republic and Early Empire

  • Sasha-Mae Eccleston

    John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics

    Wilbour Hall, Room 304

    Research Interests: Latin Literature, especially of the Roman Empire; Literary Theory; Classical Reception, especially within contemporary poetry and the African diaspora; Human-Animal relationships

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00am - 12:00pm (https://calendly.com/smephd) and by appointment.

  • Mary-Louise Gill

    David Benedict Professor of Classics and Philosophy

    Corliss Bracket House, Room 204

    Research Interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy; Ancient Science

  • Yannis Hamilakis

    Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology, Professor of Modern Greek Studies

    Rhode Island Hall, Room 105

    Research Interests: Archaeological Ethnography; Contemporary Forced Migration; Critical Heritage; Critical and Border Pedagogy; Decolonial Theory; Mediterranean Archaeology; Modern Greek Studies; Photo-ethnography; Photography; Politics of the Past; Senses and Affect; Social Zooarchaeology; Nationalism

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Thursdays 2:30 - 4:00pm, or by appointment. 

  • Johanna Hanink

    Professor of Classics

    Macfarlane House, Room 206

    Research Interests: Greek Literature and Cultural History

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:30 - 11:30am and Wednesdays 12:00 - 1:00pm. 

  • Kenneth Haynes

    Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Classics

    Prospect House, Room 301

    Research Interests: Greek and Roman Literature; Classical Reception

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Fridays 2:00 - 4:00pm  in Prospect House (36 Prospect St), Room 112.

  • Avery Willis Hoffman

    Artistic Director of the Brown Arts Institute, Professor of the Practice of Arts and Classics

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Weekly by Appointment via Susannah Renihan Peirce: (e) [email protected] / (p) 401-863-1934

  • Stephen Kidd

    Associate Professor of Classics, Director of Graduate Studies

    Wilbour Hall, Room 105

    401-863-2993

    Research Interests: Greek Literature, especially of the Classical Period

  • Andrew Laird

    John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities, Professor of Hispanic Studies

    Wilbour Hall, Room 001

    Research Interests: Classical literature, especially Virgil; Renaissance humanism and history of scholarship; Latin in colonial Spanish America; intellectual history and ethnohistory in sixteenth-century Mexico

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Email [email protected] for appointment (usually within 24 hours).

  • Pura Nieto Hernández

    Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Classics

    Macfarlane House, Room 201

    Research Interests: Greek Language and Literature

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: By appointment only. 

  • Graham Oliver

    Professor of Classics, Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies (Ancient History)

    Wilbour Hall, Room 305

    Research Interests: Greek History; Ancient Economies; Greek Epigraphy; Reception of Ancient Greece

  • Joseph Pucci

    Department Chair, Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies

    Macfarlane House, Room 208

    Research Interests: Late and Medieval Latin; Comparative Literary History; Biography; the American Presidency

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Monday through Friday by appointment. 

  • Joseph Reed

    Professor of Classics, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of Undergraduate Studies

    Macfarlane House, Room 203

    Research Interests: Latin Poetry; Hellenistic Poetry; Reception of Classical Literature; Myth and Cult of Adonis

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00am - 12:00pm, or by appointment. 

  • Candace Rice

    Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics

    Rhode Island Hall, Room 209

    Research Interests: Ancient Economy, France, Italy, Maritime Trade, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Archaeology, Roman social history, Roman villas, Turkey

  • Amy Russell

    Associate Professor of Classics

    Macfarlane House, Room 104

    Research Interests: Roman history, politics, and culture of the late Republic and early Empire; Roman urbanism, architecture, and space.

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm.

  • Kenneth Sacks

    Professor of Classics, Professor of History

    Peter Green House, Room 204

    Research Interests: Greek History; Hellenistic Intellectual History; American Transcendentalism

    Fall 2023 Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:00pm by appointment only.

  • Adele Scafuro

    Professor of Classics

    Wilbour Hall, Room 104

    Research Interests: Greek Legal, Social, and Cultural History; Greek Epigraphy; Classical Greek and Roman Republican Literature