Duke University | Classical Studies:

The research of the faculty is as diverse as the field of Classical Studies itself, and ranges from archaeological excavation to the study of ancient texts on papyrus and stone; from textual analysis and criticism of ancient literature to the study of ancient and medieval scripts and books; from Roman monuments to Greek pottery, ancient political theory to medieval manuscripts.

Carla M. Antonaccio (PhD, Princeton), Professor of Archaeology

Greek and Mediterranean archaeology, the Greek Iron Age, and archaic and classical Sicily and S. Italy. The archaeology of colonization; mortuary practices; hero cult

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Jed Atkins (PhD, Cambridge) Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Greek and Roman political philosophy and ethics, Latin literature, the
history of political thought, Patristics, Cicero

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Mary T. Boatwright (PhD, University of Michigan), Professor of Ancient History

Roman history, esp. of the imperial period; Roman women; Roman topography and urbanism; Latin historiography; Latin epigraphy

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Peter Burian (PhD, Princeton), Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies

Classical drama, especially fifth-century Athenian tragedy and comedy in their sociopolitical and historical contexts; Theory and practice of literary translation; Reception of Greco-Roman ideas and forms in later cultures

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N. Gregson G. Davis (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley), Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

Greek and Latin poetry; rhetoric; semiotics; Caribbean literature (francophone and anglophone)

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José M. González (PhD, Princeton; PhD, Harvard), Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Greek poetry (archaic to Hellenistic); ancient rhetoric and literary criticism; performance studies; Greek religion; historical linguistics; Greek dialects; ancient commentaries and scholia

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Micaela W. Janan (PhD, Princeton), Professor of Classical Studies

Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire; gender and sexuality in the ancient world; critical and psychoanalytic theory

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William A. Johnson (PhD, Yale), Professor of Classical Studies

Greek historiography; Greek and Roman literature and cultural history; ancient books and readers; ancient music; literary papyri

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Joshua D. Sosin (PhD, Duke), Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History
Greek epigraphy and papyrology, religion, economics, law, numismatics, Latin and Greek

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J. Clare Woods (PhD, London), Associate Professor of Latin

Late and Medieval Latin Literature; early medieval homiletics, monastic culture; the history of the book; the Classical Tradition in literature, post-classical experiences of Rome and Italy, and the pre-modern in new media

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