The Following Faculty Work on Antiquity and Related Subjects at NYU
Matthew Adams
(Institute of Fine Arts) Egyptian archaeology, urbanism and social complexity; the nature and evolution of sacred landscapes
Awam Amkpa
(Tisch School of the Arts; Dean of Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi) African diasporic drama and film; transnationalism; postcolonial theory
Roger Bagnall
(Director Emeritus, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Greek and Roman history; papyrology; late antiquity
Emilia Barbiero
(Classics) Ancient comedy; Roman republican literature and culture; ancient epistolography
Alessandro Barchiesi
(Classics) Roman poetry and poetics; literary history; narrative fiction; reception of Classical studies; Greek influence at Rome
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, Emeritus) Social anthropology; religion; colonial history; oral history; Africa and ancient Greece
Emanuela Bianchi
(Comparative Literature, Classics, Program in Gender and Sexuality) Ancient Greek philosophy and literature; 20th century and contemporary continental philosophy; feminist/queer theory
Claire Bubb
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Medicine and the biological sciences in the Graeco-Roman world
Roderick B. Campbell
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Theorizing ancient social-political organization, social violence and history in late 2nd millennium B.C. north China; the archaeology of production
Mary Carruthers
(English, Emerita) Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory in literature
Anne Carson
(Creative Writing, Classics) Ancient Greek literature and culture
Joan Breton Connelly
(Classics; Director, Yeronisos Island excavations) Greek sculpture; vase painting; religion
Pamela J. Crabtree
(Anthropology) Medieval archaeology, especially Anglo-Saxon England; zooarchaeology
Raffaella Cribiore
(Classics) Education in the Greek and Roman worlds; papyrology; Greek rhetoric
Helen Cullyer
(Executive Director, Society for Classical Studies)
Lorenzo D'Alfonso
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) History and archaeology of pre-classical Syria and Anatolia
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
Finbarr Barry Flood
(Art History) Art and architecture of the Islamic world
Hallie Franks
(Gallatin School of Individualized Study) The material culture of Ancient Greece; the relationship between the Greek world and other cultures
Ogden Goelet Jr.
(Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Emeritus) Egyptian lexicography, cultural history, and literature
Ethan Harkness
(Gallatin School of Individualized Study) Early Chinese culture, with a particular emphasis on technical topics that inform the histories of science and religion
Anselm Haverkamp
(English, Emeritus) Critical theory; 16th- to 18th-century literature
Sebastian Heath
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Roman pottery; numismatics; the role of Digital Humanities in the study of the Ancient World
Julia Hernández
(Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures) Hispanic Studies; empire; reception of Classics in Spanish-speaking world
W. Gerald Heverly
(Libraries) Books and writing materials in classical antiquity; transmission of texts; Latin prose style
John Hopkins
(Art History) Roman and early Italic art and architecture; longue durée Ancient Mediterranean visual culture; urbanism and spatial theory
Kathryn Howley
(Institute of Fine Arts) Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; archaeology
Robert G. Hoyland
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) History, languages, and literature of the late antique and early Islamic Middle East
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
(Director, 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
Patricia Eunji Kim
(Gallatin School of Individualized Study) Visual and material culture of ancient Greece, Rome, Near East; gender, sexuality, and women’s studies; postcolonial and empire studies; environmental humanities; data and digital humanities; cultural heritage
Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
(Institute of Fine Arts) Ancient Aegean, Greek, and Roman art; architecture; archaeology
Guenter Kopcke
(Institute of Fine Arts, Emeritus) Art and the second millennium B.C.E. Mediterranean integration, Crete; art and Greek progress from infiltration to Greek statehood, second to first millennium B.C.E.; political origin and role of Classical art; Rome north of the Alps
Antonis Kotsonas
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Material culture; socio-economic history of Greece and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period
Barbara Kowalzig
(Classics) Religion and anthropology of ancient Greece and the Mediterranean; Greek poetry and drama; music and performance; social and economic history
David Levene
(Chair, Classics) Roman history and religion
Marko Malink
(Classics, Philosophy) Ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic and metaphysics
Clemente Marconi
(Institute of Fine Arts; Director, Selinunte excavations) Greek art and architecture in Archaic and Classical periods
Thomas F. Mathews
(Institute of Fine Arts, Emeritus) Early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture
Peter Meineck
(Classics) Cognitive science; ancient performance; reception of Greek literature
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
Jessica Moss
(Philosophy) Ancient philosophy
Michael Peachin
(Classics, Emeritus) Roman imperial history; Roman law; Latin epigraphy
Beate Pongratz-Leisten
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Political, intellectual and religious history of the ancient Near East
Daniel T. Potts
(Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history with a concentration on Iran, Mesopotamia, and the Persian Gulf
David M. Ratzan
(Head Librarian, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)
Eugenio Refini
(Italian Studies) Reception, translation and forms of adaptation through the intersections of rhetoric, poetics, drama, music and voice studies
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
(College Core Curriculum) Ancient Greek philosophy
Eliya Ribak
(NYU London) Abrahamic cross-cultural art and archaeology in Byzantine Palestina and Medieval Britain
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; Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, Faculty Director, NYU Washington DC) Latin literature, especially Augustan poetry; Greek poetry; classical tradition
Lawrence H. Schiffman
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Dead Sea Scrolls; Talmudic literature
Melissa Schwartzberg
(Politics) Ancient Greek political institutions; ancient political thought
Hsueh-Man Shen
(Institute of Fine Arts) Art and archaeology of medieval China
David Sider
(Classics, Emeritus) 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
Jared Simard
(Liberal Studies) Mythology in literature and art; classical reception studies; Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Mediterranean; Digital Humanities and technology in the classroom
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, Emeritus) Biblical religion and history; northwest Semitic languages and literature
Roland R. R. Smith
(Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology, Oxford University; Director, Aphrodisias excavations) Art and visual cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world; historical interpretation of ancient representation and its relationship with social and political culture; archaeology of Greek cities of the Eastern Roman Empire
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
(History, and Alberico Gentili Fellow, Law School) Political and legal thought; the reception of ancient political thought in early modern Europe; late Roman Republican political thought
Yifat Thareani
(NYU Tel Aviv) Archaeology of the southern Levant; Neo-Assyrian Empire; frontier zones
Helen L. 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
Marina Thomatos
(Global Technology Services) Digital Humanities; art and archaeology of the Aegean; early societies and material culture; curriculum design and development
Antumi Toasijé
(NYU Madrid) African history and politics; migratory movements and collective identities from ancient to contemporary times
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
Laura Viidebaum
(Classics) Ancient rhetoric and literary criticism; Greek literature and culture; Greek and Latin philosophy; education; poetics of prose texts; Greek tragedy and its reception
Jerome C. Wakefield
(Social Work, Medicine) Philosophical (especially ancient) foundations of the mental health professions
Katherine Welch
(Institute of Fine Arts; Deputy Director, Aphrodisias excavations) 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; narrative and literary theory
Rita Wright
(Anthropology, Emerita) Prehistoric archaeology of the Near East and South Asia; state formation and urbanism; gender studies