Ancient Mediterranean World: Faculty
Jonathan M. Hall Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 1993. Professor of Ancient Greek History, Classics, and the College. Greek social and cultural history; ancient ethnicities; state formation; colonization; history and material culture.
Walter E. Kaegi Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965. Professor of Byzantine History, the Division of Humanities, and the College. Voting Member of the Oriental Institute. Byzantine and late Roman political, social, military and religious structure; historiography; European military history and strategy; Byzantino-Islamic history.
Affiliated Faculty
Students of ancient history can expect to work with a number of faculty members who hold appointments outside the History department, including (but not limited to) the following:
Danielle Allen (Classics). Athenian politics and Greek political thought; drama, oratory and philosophy.
Michael Allen (Classics). Medieval Latin historiography and poetry; Latin palaeography
Clifford Ando (Classics). Roman cultural history, law, and religon.
Elizabeth Asmis (Classics). Hellenistic poetics; Stoic ethics; Greek and Roman political philosophy.
Shadi Bartsch (Classics). Roman cultural history and philosophy.
Michael Dietler (Anthropology). Early Iron Age Europe; colonial encounters between Greeks, Romans and Etruscans in southern France; archaeological method and theory.
Christopher Faraone (Classics). Magic and religion; Near Eastern influences on Early Greek culture.
Bruce Lincoln (Divinity School). Religion and myth; discourse, power and the construction of social borders.
David Martinez (Classics). Magic and religion; Greek papyrology and palaeography.
Richard Neer (Art History). Greek and Roman art; vase painting; critical theory.
James Redfield (Classics). Greek religion and sociocultural history; anthropology of the ancient world.
Peter White (Classics). Roman social and cultural history; Greek and Roman historiography.
Many students choose to study the encounters between the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds, drawing upon the expertise of faculty in the internationally-renowned Oriental Institute (including Gene Gragg, Janet Johnson, Dennis Pardee, Robert Ritner, Martha Roth, and David Schloen) as well as Tikva Frymer-Kensky in the Divinity School.