NYU has a large concentration of scholars in all areas of study of the Ancient World, including the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, the Ancient Near East and Central Asia, Northern Europe. Faculty in the Classics department include Joan Breton Connelly (Classical Archaeology), Barbara Kowalzig (Archaic and Classical Greece and the Mediterranean) Andrew Monson (Hellenistic world), Michael Peachin (Roman empire), and David Levene (Historiography) and Raffaella Cribiore (Late Antiquity). We cooperate closely with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Institute of Fine Arts, and the Department of History at NYU, and with some of the leading historians and archaeologists in their fields: Antonis Kotsonas (Mediterranean History and Archaeology), Clemente Marconi (Greek Archaeology), Katherine Welch (Roman Archaeology),  John Hopkins (Greek and Roman Art), Lorenzo D’Alfonso (Western Asian Archaeology and History), Beate Pongratz-Leisten and Daniel Potts (Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History),  Sören Stark (Central Asian Art and Archaeology), Fiona Kidd (Hellenistic Central Asian Archaeology), and Sebastian Heath (Roman Archaeology, Digital Humanities) to name a few.