Research and Teaching Staff in Classics

Cornell has one of the largest and most diverse teaching and research staffs in North America and Europe. Teaching and research staff affiliated directly with the Classics Department include:

Frederick M. Ahl
Professor, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (also a member of the Department of Comparative Literature). Greek and Roman Epic and Drama, Intellectual History of Greece and Rome. Author of Lucan: An Introduction; Seneca: Three Tragedies; Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets; Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction; Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration; (with Hanna Roisman) The Odyssey Re-Formed; articles on Greek music, Homeric narrative, ancient rhetoric, and Roman imperial poetry. Editor of the translation series Masters of Latin Literature. Currently working on Seneca: Four Tragedies, Aeneid 6: A Commentary with Translation, translation of the Aeneid into English.

Kimberly Bowes
Assistant Professor. Archaeology of late antiquity; archaeology of religion; domestic architecture; landscape archaeology; later Roman economies. Author of Private Worship and Public Values: Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Co-editor of Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno, British School Monographs, Rome/London, 2007 with Richard Hodges and Karen Francis; of Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches, Brill, Leiden, 2005 with Michael Kulikowski. Current projects include a book on later Roman villas, wealth and economics, and an excavation of a Roman estate village in central Sicily (Sofiana Project).

Charles Brittain
Professor and Chair of Classics. Ancient Philosophy, especially Hellenistic epistemology and ethics, and Platonist psychology and ethics. Author of Philo of Larissa, and translator of Cicero on Academic Scepticism, and with Tad Brennan, of Simplicius' Commentary on the Handbook of Epictetus. Currently working on Cicero and Augustine.

Jacquelyn C. Clinton
Senior Lecturer. Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology. Author of A Late Antique Shrine of Liber Pater at Cosa. Co-editor of and contributor to A Catalogue of the Antiquities at the American Academy in Rome. Currently working on Cosa: The Sculpture and Furniture in Stone.

Kevin Clinton
Professor. Greek Religion, Literature, and Epigraphy. Author of The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Myth and Cult: Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Eleusis, The Inscriptions on Stone: Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses and the Public Documents of the Deme, vol. I, Texts, vol. II, Commentary (forthcoming); and articles on Greek literature, religion, and inscriptions. Current work: various studies in Greek literature and religion, including books on the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Mysteries of the Great Gods in Samothrace. Supervisor of the project for the Computerization of Greek Inscriptions.

John E. Coleman
Professor Emeritus. Aegean and Classical Archaeology, especially in Greece and Cyprus. Director of the Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project (CHELP)(Greece). Author of Kephala (Keos I) and Excavations at Pylos in Elis; co-author of Alambra (on the Cornell excavations at Alambra in Cyprus). Co-editor of Greeks and Barbarians.

Gail Fine
Professor. Ancient Philosophy. Author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and articles on ancient philosophy, especially on various topics in epistemology and metaphysics. Editor of Plato I: Metaphysics and Epistemology and Plato II: Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul.

Kevin Fisher
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Anthropology (specialization in Archaeology) Neolithic-Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and Near East.

Michael Fontaine
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Latin Literature, especially Republican drama, Augustan poetry, textual criticism, and wordplay. Author of articles on Plautus and Virgil. Book in progress: Error and Ambiguity in Plautine Comedy.

Gail Holst-Warhaft
Adjunct Professor in the the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature. She is also the Acting Associate Director of the Institute for European Studies (Fall 2003); and the Coordinator of the Mediterranean Studies Initiative (Spring 2004). Modern Greek Literature and Music, Greek Literature from Antiquity to the Present. Author of The Cue for Passion: Grief and its Political Uses, and Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature. Co-editor of The Classical Moment.

Nancy J. Kelly
Research Associate. Greek Archaeology, Architecture. Co-manager of the project for the Computerization of Greek Inscriptions. Author of articles on Greek architecture.

Helen Kolias
Senior Lecturer/Visiting Scholar. Modern Greek Language, Literature, and Culture; Portraits of Women in Ancient Greece and in Byzantium; Greek Women Writers. Editor of Readings in Modern Greek Literature for Intermediate and Advanced Students of Modern Greek. Editor and translator of Elisavet Moutzan-Martinengou's My Story.

David P. Mankin
Associate Professor. Latin Literature.

Sturt W. Manning
Professor and Goldwin Smith Chair of Classical Archaeology. Aegean, Cypriot, and east Mediterranean prehistory; Archaeological science; Classical archaeology and art; Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, dendrochemistry, and climate change science; Radiocarbon dating. Archaeological interests focus on the Aegean, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, especially investigating changing forms of social complexity and social relations, trade, and temporal timescales. Director of fieldwork projects from 1990 to the present in Cyprus spanning from the Late Roman period back to the earliest Neolithic. Archaeological science interests focus around the development and application of tree-ring and radiocarbon analyses to archaeology and environmental science especially as relevant to the Mediterranean and Near East. From 1 July 2006 Director of The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology at Cornell University.

John M. Mansfield
Research Associate. Greek and Roman Archaeology, History, Religion and Epigraphy. Co-manager of the project for the Computerization of Greek Inscriptions. Creator of the ICE-ICK data bank, an electronic collection of Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval inscriptions in Greek and Latin.

Alan J. Nussbaum
Professor of Classics and Linguistics. Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics, Homer, Old Latin. Author of Head and Horn in Indo-European; Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics; and articles on Greek, Latin, and Italic.

Robert C. Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, New College,Oxford UK)
Visiting Professor. Fall 2008 Townsend Lecturer. Greek Religion.

Hayden Pelliccia
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Greek Literature.
Author of Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar and articles and reviews on Greek literature. Editor of Selected Dialogues of Plato.

Pietro Pucci
Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics. Greek Epic, Drama, Mythology, and Textual Criticism. Author of Hesiod and the Language of Poetry; The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea; Odysseus Polutropos; Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father; Enigma, Segreto, Oracolo; The Song of the Sirens: Essays on Homer, Xenophon. Apology of Socrates and Sofocle, Filottete, Introduzione e commento.

Hunter R. Rawlings III
Professor and University President Emeritus. Greek History and Historiography. Author of A Semantic Study of prophasis to 400 B.C. and The Structure of Thucydides' History.

Eric Rebillard (on leave 2008-2009)
Professor (also of History) and Director of Graduate Studies. Roman history, especially Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. Author of In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans l’Occident latin (École française de Rome, 1994) and Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (EHESS, 2003). Co-editor of Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, Christianity, history (École française de Rome, 2000) with Susanna Elm and Antonella Romano; Hellénisme et christianisme: questions de religion, de philosophie et d’histoire dans l’Antiquité tardive (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004) with Michel Narcy. Currently working on the interactions of Christians with non-Christians in the Roman Empire (2nd-4th c.). Also editor of L’Année philologique on the Internet (www.annee-philoligique.com).

Antonia Ruppel
Townsend Lecturer in the Greek, Latin and Sanskrit Languages.

Jeffrey Rusten (on leave Fall 2008)
Professor. Greek Comedy, Tragedy, Historiography, Religion and Literary Papyri. Author of Dionysius Scytobrachion. Editor of Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Book II; Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos: A Commentary; and Theophrastus, The Characters (Loeb Classical Library).

Barry S. Strauss
Professor (also Professor of History). Ancient Greek History . Author of Athens After the Peloponnesian War: Class, Faction and Policy 403-386 B.C.; Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War ; The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Ancient Greece and Western Civilization , and Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty. Co-author of The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists and Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment. Co-editor of Hegemonic Rivalry from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age and of War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War . Strauss is currently writing a book on the Trojan War.