Faculty Who Work on Antiquity and Related Subjects at NYU

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

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

Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
(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, Emerita) Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory in literature

John Chioles
(Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Emeritus) 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

Raffaella Cribiore
(Classics) Education in the Greek and Roman worlds; papyrology; Greek rhetoric

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

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

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
(Art History) 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

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

W. Gerald Heverly
(Libraries) Books and writing materials in classical antiquity; transmission of texts; Latin prose style

Alex Jassen
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Hebrew Bible and Biblical interpretation; Second Temple Judaism; Dead Sea scrolls; study of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity

Daniel Javitch
(Comparative Literature, Emeritus) Renaissance literature; genre theory

Alexander Jones
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Astronomy and mathematical sciences and their transmission in the Greco-Roman world and the ancient Near East

Charles Ellwood Jones
(Head, ISAW Library) Mesopotamian and Iranian history; Achaemenid studies

Andrew Lear
(Classics) Gender and sexuality in the ancient world; Greek poetry and culture; vase-painting

David Levene
(Chair, Classics) Roman History and religion

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

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) Ancient drama

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

Andrew Monson
(Classics) Greco-Roman Egypt; political economy; ancient empires

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

Timothy J. Reiss
(Comparative Literature, Emeritus) 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 Macy Roth
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Egyptology; Egyptian archaeology; gender studies; mortuary religion

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

Laura Samponaro
(Liberal Studies) Ancient rhetoric and political thought; Latin stylistics; classical reception

Matthew S. Santirocco
(Classics; Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs; Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies) Latin literature, especially Augustan poetry; Greek poetry; classical tradition

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

Sören Stark
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Archaeology, art history, and history in Central and Inner Asia and the neighboring cultural areas

Benjamin Straumann
(Visiting Assistant Professor, History, and Alberico Gentili Fellow, Law School) Political and legal thought, the reception of ancient political thought in early modern Europe and late Roman Republican political thought

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

Christian Tryon
(Anthropology) Archaeological and geological methods to explore the behavioral evolution of Middle and Later Pleistocene hominins and the origin of Homo sapiens

Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Art and archaeology of Han China; reception of antiquity; the interface of art history and cultural history

Jerome C. Wakefield
(Social Work, Medicine) Philosophical (especially ancient) foundations of the mental health professions

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

Susanne Wofford
(Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study) Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama, and narrative and literary theory

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