Dee Clayman

Professor; Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics, CUNY Graduate Center

On sabbatical, 2010-2011

E-Mail: dclayman@gc.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Dee Clayman studied classics at Wellesley College (A.B. 1967) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1972). Her research interests include Greek poetry and the literature, philosophy and history of the Hellenistic period. She is the author of Callimachus’ Iambi (Leiden 1980) and more than 30 articles and reviews in her areas of interest. She is also the Director of the Database of Classical Bibliography, the digitized Année Philologique. She has received a Senior Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Delmas, Kress, Mellon, Getty, Gould and Loeb Classical Library foundations.

Danielle Kellogg

Assistant Professor

E-Mail: dkellogg@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Danielle Kellogg studied Classics at Franklin and Marshall College (A.B. 1999) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.A. 2001; Ph.D. 2005). Her research interests are in the areas of Greek political and constitutional history, epigraphy, and topography of the Greek countryside. She is the author of several articles and reviews on Greek history and epigraphy.

James Pletcher

Lecturer

E-Mail: jpletcher@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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David Schur

Assistant Professor

E-Mail: dschur@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

David Schur studied at the University of Rochester (BA 1986) and Harvard University (M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1994). Before coming to Brooklyn College, he taught at Harvard and at Miami University of Ohio. He has published The Way of Oblivion: Heraclitus and Kafka (Harvard, 1998) as well as articles on Sophocles and Freud. In 2001-02, he was a research fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. A Hellenist with a background in comparative poetics, his research interests include Greek hexameter poetry, Plato, and Sophocles; Literary Rhetoric and Style, Critical Theory, and the Pedagogy and Practice of Close Reading.

Gail Smith

Professor; Acting Assistant Provost and AGEP Principal Investigator, CUNY Graduate Center

E-Mail: gsmith@gc.cuny.edu

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Brian Sowers

Lecturer

Student Adviser

E-Mail: bsowers@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Philip Thibodeau

Assistant Professor

E-Mail: pthibodeau@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Philip Thibodeau studied Classics at Yale University (B.A. 1993) and at Brown University (Ph.D. 1999). His research interests lie in the areas of Latin poetry, especially Vergil, and ancient science. He is the author of numerous articles in those fields and is also co-editor with H. Haskell of Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C. J. Putnam on the Occasion of his Seventieth-Birthday (Afton Press, 2003). He is currently working on a monograph on Vergil’s Georgics.  He has been the recipient of a full-year research fellowship from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

John B. Van Sickle

Professor

E-Mail: jvsickle@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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John B. Van Sickle studied at Harvard (A. B. 1958, Ph.D. 1966) and Illinois (M.A. 1959), focusing early on Virgil – the prophetic and public voice in his pastoral poetry (so-called eclogues or Book of Bucolics) – hence pastoral before and after Virgil, back to biblical stories of inspired shepherds right down through Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth to Robert Frost and Derek Walcott. Particular emphasis on the force of word origins and metaphor, which also enriches his teaching in the Core Curriculum and courses on Greek and Latin Elements in English as well as his lectures on botanical names. Published The Design of Virgil’s Bucolics (Duckworth 2004) and many articles and reviews.

Craig Williams

Professor

E-Mail: craigw@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Craig Williams studied Classics at Yale University (BA 1986, Ph.D. 1992). He is the author of Roman Homosexuality (Oxford University Press 1999, second edition 2010), Martial, Epigrams: Book Two. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary (Oxford University Press 2004), A Martial Reader (forthcoming, Bolchazy-Carducci), and Reading Roman Friendship (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), as well as various articles and reviews on Latin poetry and Roman culture. He is currently working on the relationship between animals and humans in Greco-Roman and Native American cultural traditions. Prof. Williams has been awarded research fellowships by the Ethyle Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Berlin, Germany) as well as the Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship.

Donna Wilson

Associate Professor; Dean for Undergraduate Studies

E-Mail: dwilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Liv Yarrow

Associate Professor

Department Chair

E-Mail: yarrow@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Liv Yarrow studied Classics at the George Washington University (BA 1998) and at the University of Oxford (MPhil 2000, DPhil 2002). Her research interests are in the areas of Roman and Hellenistic History, especially historiography and numismatics. She is the author of Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule (Oxford University Press 2006) and a contributor to the Roman Provincial Coinage IV Project: The Antonine Period

Roger Dunkle

Professor Emeritus

E-Mail: rdunkle@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Roger Dunkle has created helpful web resources for students. To access these materials, visit the links page.

Hardy Hansen

Professor Emeritus

E-Mail: hhansen@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Hardy Hansen studied at Princeton (A.B. 1963) and Harvard (Ph.D. 1969). His special interest is the Greek language and he is the Director of the Latin/Greek Institute jointly sponsored by Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where for the past thirty years he has spent his summers teaching Greek.