Faculty Who Work on Antiquity and related subjects at NYU

Markus Asper
(Classics) Hellenistic poetry; ancient Greek science

Roger Bagnall
(Professor of Ancient History and Director of The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Greek and Roman history; papyrology; late antiquity

Adam Becker
(Religious Studies) Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity; Syriac language and literature; reception of classical antiquity

Brigitte Bedos-Rezack
(History) Medieval northern France; medieval semiotics; social history

Thomas O. Beidelman
(Anthropology) Social anthropology; religion; colonial history; oral history; Africa and ancient Greece

Larissa Bonfante
(Classics, Emerita) Ancient Etruscan civilization; iconography; ancient dress

Mary Carruthers
(English) Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory in literature

Paul Cartledge
(University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics; Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor, NYU) History of Greek political thought, with special reference to democracy

Lionel Casson
(Classics, Emeritus) Maritime history

John Chioles
(Comparative Literature) Theater and literary theory

Jill N. Claster
(History, Emerita) Roman History, especially the transition from classical to early medieval; the classical tradition in the Middle Ages

Pamela J. Crabtree
(Anthropology) Medieval archaeology, especially Anglo-Saxon England; zooarchaeology

Mervin R. Dilts
(Classics, Emeritus) Greek paleography; textual criticism

Carolyn Dinshaw
(English) Middle English literature and culture; feminist studies; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies

Charles W. Dunmore
(Classics, Emeritus) Mythology; etymology; Latin literature

Matt Evans
(Philosophy) Ancient philosophy; ethics

Daniel E. Fleming
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Hebrew Bible and Israelite religion; Assyriology; ancient Syria

Katherine Fleming
(History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and Hellenic Studies) Post-Byzantine and modern Greek History; western Ottoman provinces; Mediterranean and Greek Jewry

Barry Finbarr Flood
(Fine Arts) Art and architecture of the Islamic world

John Freccero
(Italian and Comparative Literature) Dante; medieval poetry and poetics; Machiavelli

Ogden Goelet Jr.
(Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies) Egyptian lexicography, cultural history, and literature

Evelyn Byrd Harrison
(Institute of Fine Arts, Emerita) Classical Greek art

Anselm Haverkamp
(English) Critical theory; 16th- to 18th-century literature

W. Gerald Heverly
(Librarian for Classics, Hellenic Studies, and Philosophy) Books and writing materials in classical antiquity; transmission of texts; Latin prose style

Daniel Javitch
(Comparative Literature) Renaissance literature; genre theory

David Levene
(Classics) Roman History and religion

Baruch Levine
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Emeritus) Near Eastern history and epigraphy; the Hebrew Bible; Israelite religions

Michèle Lowrie
(Classics) Latin literature; Augustan poetry; Greek and Latin lyric poetry; generic and rhetorical criticism

Clemente Marconi
(Institute of Fine Arts) Greek art and architecture in archaic and classical periods

Philip Mayerson
(Classics, Emeritus) Roman-Byzantine Near East (history and archeology); papyrology

Peter Meineck
(Classics; Producer, Aquila Theatre Company) Ancient drama

Phillip Mitsis
(Classics and Hellenic Studies) Ancient philosophy and its reception in later times; ancient drama

David O'Connor
(Institute of Fine Arts) Ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology; Ancient Nubian art history and archaeology

Michael Peachin
(Classics) Roman imperial history; Roman law; Latin epigraphy

Francis Peters
(Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies) Comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Robert Raymo
(English, Emeritus) Middle English literature; medieval and Neo-Latin literature

Timothy J. Reiss
(Comparative Literature) Renaissance and 18th-century literature, history, and politics; history and theory of theater; cultural and political theory

Vincent Renzi
(Morse Academic Plan) Ancient Greek philosophy

Ann Roth
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Adviser for Minor in Ancient Studies ) Ancient Near Eastern Studies; Egyptology

Jeffrey Rubenstein
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Judaism of the Second Temple; Talmud and Midrash

Martha Dana Rust
(English) Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; gender studies

Matthew S. Santirocco (cyberdean@nyu.edu)
(Classics; Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies) Latin literature, especially Augustan poetry; Greek poetry; the classical tradition

Lawrence Schiffman
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Dead Sea Scrolls and Talmudic literature

David Sider
(Classics) Greek poetry and philosophy

Gregory M. Sifakis
(Classics, Emeritus) Classical drama and theater production; Homer and medieval Greek epic; Greek folklore; poetics of traditional arts

Laura Slatkin
(Gallatin School of Individualized Study) Ancient Greek and Roman poetry; comparative mythology; wisdom traditions in classical and near eastern antiquity; gender studies

Mark S. Smith
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Biblical religion and history; northwest Semitic languages and literature

Richard Sorabji
(Cyprus Global Distinguished Professor, NYU) Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Liana Theodoratou
(Hellenic Studies) Greek and Latin lyric; Greek drama; literary theory (ancient and modern); theory of translation

Thelma Thomas
(Institute of Fine Arts) Coptic art

Jerome C. Wakefield
(Social Work) Philosophical (especially ancient) foundations of the mental health professions; (School of Medicine) Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry in the NYU

Katherine Welsh
(Institute of Fine Arts) Roman imperial and republican art; Hellenistic art; Roman and Greek history

Elliot Wolfson
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Jewish mysticism and philosophy; gender construction and the history of religion; symbolism and myth

Rita Wright
(Anthropology) Prehistoric archaeology of the Near East and South Asia; state formation and urbanism; gender studies

Paul Zanker
(Institute of Fine Arts) Ancient portraiture