Presidents of The University of Chicago - Classics

Classics

• Michael I. Allen – Associate Professor of Medieval Latin Historiography and Poetry. Latin literature of the Middle Ages and on Latin palaeography.
• Clifford Ando – Professor of Roman Empire History. Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (2000). APA's Goodwin Award in 2003, and The Matter of the Gods (2008). He is the editor of Roman Religion (2003) and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006). Problems of law, administration and cultural change in the Roman empire.
• Elizabeth Asmis – Professor of Roman Stoicism and Cicero's Political Philosophy and the editor of Classical Philology. Epicurus' Scientific Method and articles on Plato, Philodemus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Greek and Roman philosophy and literary criticism.
• Shadi Bartsch – Professor of Gender Issues in Antiquity and in Roman literature and culture. Quantrell Teaching Award and Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
• Alain Bresson – Professor of Ancient Economy, the Hellenistic world, and the epigraphy of Rhodes and Asia Minor, and author of La cité marchande (Bordeaux 2000), L'économie de la Grèces des cités (2 volumes; Paris 2007–2008), and Recueil des inscriptions de la Pérée rhodienne (Paris 1991), and editor of some five more, on matters of economics, civic life, writing and public power, and the history of the family.
• Helma Dik – Associate Professor of Attic Greek, and author of Word Order in Ancient Greek and Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue, and articles on the functional grammar of Greek. Quantrell Teaching Award.
• Christopher Faraone – Professor of Ancient Greek religion and poetry, and co-editor of Magika Hiera.
• Jonathan M. Hall – Professor of Greek History, the Chair of Classics Department, author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge, 1997), APA's Goodwin Award. 2004 Gordon J. Laing Prize. He is focused on Greek history, historiography, and archaeology. Quantrell Teaching Award. Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service.
• W. Ralph Johnson – Professor Emeritus of Latin poetry and Greek/Latin rhetoric. The John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service.
• Michèle Lowrie – Professor of Roman culture, literature, politics, and reception. Idea of security at Rome, the exemplum in stories about foundation and state violence during the collapse of the Roman Republic.
• David Martinez – Associate Professor of Ancient Greek papyrology, paleography and language, religion and magic. Papyrological research to the study of early Christianity. Hellenistic authors, and early Christian literature.
• Emanuel Mayer – Assistant Professor and author of Rome is Where the Emperor is: State Monuments in the Decentralised Roman Empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II (Mainz, 2001; in German). Political imagery of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, representational behavior of Roman elites under the Empire, and ancient urbanism.
• Sarah Nooter – Assistant Professor of Greek tragedy and modern reception. Sophocles and poetic language, Athenian drama, archaic poetry and religious thought, literary theory and linguistics, and contemporary poetry and theater.
• Mark Payne – Associate Professor of Greek poetry, member of the Committee on Social Thought and member of the University's Poetry and Poetics program.
• D. Nicholas Rudall – Professor Emeritus of Tragedy and the Ancient Theater, Aristophanes, and Propertius. He translated of Euripides' Bacchae and The Iphigeneia Plays and Sophocles' Electra and Antigone and directed many classical works at the Court Theatre, of which he is the founding director.
• Peter White – Professor of Roman poetry, comedy and satire and Greaco-Roman historiography.and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, author of "Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome". APA's Goodwin Award. Quantrell Teaching Award.
• David Wray – Associate Professor of Hellenistic and Roman poetry, philosophy, Greek epic and tragedy; and Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities; member of the University's Poetry and Poetics program; author of Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge 2001). He focuses on ancient and modern relations between literature and philosophy; gender; theory and practice of literary translation; and the reception of Greco-Roman thought and literature, from Shakespeare and Corneille to Pound and Zukofsky.