Faculty Bios

Andrew Cain (Ph.D. Cornell 2003) specializes in patristic and early medieval Latin literature but studies and teaches Latin literature from the Classical period to the Renaissance. He is the author of four books: The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2009); St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians (Cath. Univ. of Amer. Press, 2010); Remembering Paula: A Commentary on Jerome's Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae (forthcoming with Oxford); and Jerome and the Monastic Clergy: A Commentary on Letter 52 to Nepotian (forthcoming with Brill). He has co-edited two books: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Ashgate, 2009) and Jerome of Stridon: His Life, Writings and Legacy (Ashgate, 2009). Prof. Cain is completing a literary-theological study of the [Greek] Historia Monachorum in Aegypto and is also working concurrently on two other books, A Latin Patristic Reader and a commentary on Gregory Nazianzen's funeral oration for Basil. andrew.cain@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Diane A. Conlin (Ph.D. Michigan 1993) specializes in the art, architecture and archaeology of ancient Rome. An expert on Roman marble carving techniques, styles and restorations, Prof. Conlin has published an award winning book, The Artists of the Ara Pacis. Her second monograph, Political Art in Flavian Rome , explores the intersections and multivalent symbolism of style, imperial iconography and Silver Age literature during the reign of Domitian (under contract with CUP) .In addition her art historical research, Prof. Conlin is co- director of the archaeological excavations at the Villa of Maxentius on the Via Appia in Rome. Prof. Conlin's archaeological project is currently exploring a series of structures and occupation layers that date from the Republican era to the fourth century imperial residence begun by Maxentius (306-312 CE). Prof. Conlin teaches survey courses on Roman art and archaeology and advanced classes on Ancient Italian Painting, Roman Sculpture, Roman Architecture, Augustan Rome and the Topography of Rome. She has been awarded the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award and was named a President's Teaching Scholar in 2008. diane.conlin@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Elspeth Dusinberre (Ph.D. Michigan 1997) is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia, particularly in the ways in which the Achaemenid Empire affected local social structures and in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures. Her first book, Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (Cambridge 2003), examines such issues from the vantage of the Lydian capital, while her third book, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (Cambridge forthcoming) considers all of Anatolia. Her second book is a diachronic excavation monograph, Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society (Philadelphia 2005). She is currently studying the seal impressions on the Aramaic tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive (dating ca. 500 BCE), and the cremation burials from Gordion. She has worked at Sardis, Gordion, and Kerkenes Dag in Turkey, as well as at sites elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Prof. Dusinberre teaches primarily Greek and Near Eastern archaeology. She has been awarded six University of Colorado teaching awards, the Chancellor's Faculty Recognition Award, and the Faculty Graduate Advisor Award. elspeth.dusinberre@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Jackie Elliott (Ph.D. Columbia 2005) studies the history of Latin literature, from its inception through the Classical period, specializing in the epic and historiographical traditions of Rome and their relationship. Her monograph, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales, is forthcoming from CUP in 2012. She has received fellowships fromt he American Academy at Rome and the Loeb Foundation and has contributed articles to the Cambridge Classics Journal, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology and the Classical Quarterly. Currently, she is working on a commentary on the Annales with a literary bias and a focus on the text's ancient reception in later works of literature. jackie.elliott@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

John Gibert (Ph.D. Harvard 1991) studies Greek poetry, especially tragedy and comedy. His current project is an annotated edition of Euripides' Ion, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and he has recently completed articles on "Drama and Political Thought in the Greek World" (for the Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought) and on Euripides' Antiope. He is author of Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy ( Gottingen, 1995) and co-author (with C. Collard and M.J. Cropp) of Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays II (Oxbow, 2004). His articles have appeared in Classical Quarterly, Classical Philology, and Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, among others. Prof. Gibert received the University of Colorado's SOAR Teaching Award in 1995, and was a Faculty Associate with CU's Faculty Teaching Excellence Program from 2000-2005. john.gibert@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Peter Hunt (M.A. CU Boulder1988, Ph.D. Stanford 1994), the Chair of the Classics Department and a classical Greek historian, studies warfare and society, slavery, historiography and oratory. His first book, Slaves, Warfare and Ideology in the Greek Historians (Cambridge 1998), discerns a conflict between the extent of slave and Helot participation in Greek warfare and the representation of their role in contemporary historians. In addition to various articles and reviews, he has contributed to the Macmillan History of World Slavery, Arming Slaves in World History (Yale UP), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, The Cambridge World Hstory of Slavery, The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, and Brill's Companion to Thucydides. His second book , War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens (Cmabridge 2010), uses the evidence of deliberative oratory as evidence for Athenian thinking and feeling about foreign relations. It was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and won the Kayden Prize (University of Colorado). He is currently working on a college-level book about Greek and Roman Slavery. After that his next project will focus on Athens' "frontier" in Thrace.   peter.hunt@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Peter Knox (Ph.D. Harvard 1982) is interested in Latin literature and Greek poetry of the Hellenistic and imperial periods. He is the author of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Selections (1995). He has edited Style and Tradition (1998), Oxford Readings in Ovid (2006) and A Companion to Ovid (2009). He has also published more than 80 articles and reviews on a wide range of topics in Greek and Latin literature. He is currently working on an edition of the Greek and Latin epigrams of Angelo Poliziano for the The I Tatti Renaissance Library and a new edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses for the Loeb Classical Library. He continues to work on his long-term project on Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto. peter.knox@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Tyler Lansford (Ph.D. Washington 1991) is primarily interested in the historical topography of the city of Rome from antiquity to the present. After finishing his graduate work, he co-founded Seattle Language Academy, where he taught Latin and Greek at all levels for eleven years. His first book, The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide (Johns Hopkins 2009) features some 400 inscriptions representing the whole of Rome's history - ancient, medieval, and modern. Lansford is currently working on an illustrated book on the history of Rome through its Latin inscriptions. His teaching interests include the city of Rome, ancient Roman history and the classical tradition in architecture. tyler.lansford@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Noel Lenski (Ph.D. Princeton 1995) studies all eras of Roman history and specializes in late antiquity. His books, Valens and the Fourth-Century Empire (California 2002), and The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (ed., Cambridge 2006), offer wide-angle examinations of all aspects of imperial history in late antiquity. He has published over thirty articles and reviews on questions related to the political, military, social, and legal history of the Roman world. Prof. Lenski has received a University of Colorado distinguished teaching award (2000) and the CAMWS outstanding book award (2005). noel.lenski@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Carole Newlands (Ph.D. Berkeley) Carole Newlands’ current principal areas of research are Augustan and post Augustan poetry; she has also strong interests in late Antique and Medieval poetry, in Roman and medieval art, and in the reception of classical texts. Her first book was on Ovid’s Fasti: Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell University Press 1995), and she continues to publish on Ovid’s poetry. Her recent work is on Statius:  a monograph Statius Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge 2002), a commentary on Siluae Book 2 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin series, and a book on Statius for Duckworth’s Literature and Society series.  She is co-editing with William J. Domink the Brill Companion to Statius. Her interest in reception led to an article on the first translation of Ovid’s Fasti (Hermathena) and to work in progress on the later appropriations of Ovid, Lucan, and Statius. carole.newlands@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Alison Orlebeke (Ph.D. Princeton) is the Latin Program Coordinator for the Classics department.       alison.orlebeke@colorado.edu

Laurialan Reitzammer (Ph.D. Berkeley 2006) studies Greek religion and Greek poetry and prose.  She is currently working on a book on the Adonis festival in which she examines representations of the ritual from the Athenian classical period (Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Plato’s Phaedrus, and vase paintings), with a look at Hellenistic representations for comparative purposes (Theocritus’ Idyll 15, Bion’s Lament for Adonis).  She has contributed articles to Journal of Hellenic Studies and Classical Antiquity (forthcoming). She teaches courses on ritual and gender, Greek poetry and prose, and Greek mythology. reitzammer@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF format

Eckart Schütrumpf (Ph.D. Marburg 1966, Habil. 1976) has published widely in American and German journals on political, ethical, rhetorical and poetic issues in Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, and other ancient writers. He is the author of a translation and commentary in four volumes on Aristotle's Politics (Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1991-2005). An edition of the complete translation in one volume is in preparation. Prof. Schütrumpf has published monographs on Aristotle's Poetics (1970) and Politics (1980), on Xenophon's On Revenues (1982), and on "Eric Voegelin's Deutung der aristotelischen Politik " in Order and History (2001). He has co-edited volumes on the Peripatetics Demetrius of Phalerum (1999) and Dicaearchus (2001), and together with P. Crone and D. Gutras on "The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought" (2005). His new edition of the fragments of Heraclides Ponticus appeared in the fall of 2007. Prof. Schütrumpf is editor of a project of a new critical edition of the fragments of Aristotle's lost writings, to be published by De Gruyter (Berlin) to which he will contribute an edition of the political and historical fragments. Prof. Schütrumpf was chair of the Classics department from 1987-1994. He received the Boulder Faculty Assembly's Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work Award in 2002. He was a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1999) and a visiting Professor in Trier (2005). Prof. Schütrumpf was a recipient of the Humboldt research prize in 2005 which allowed him to stay for two semesters in Berlin. schutrum@colorado.edu Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

Affiliated Faculty at CU-Boulder

Kirk Ambrose, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History.
Kirk.Ambrose@colorado.edu (303-735-0813, Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts N288, mail to CU Boulder, 318 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309)

Hardy Fredricksmeyer, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Erhard.Fredricksmeyer@colorado.edu (TBO1 202, 303-492-3606, mail to CU Boulder, 317 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309)

E. Christian Kopff, Associate Professor, Honors Program.
E.Kopff@colorado.edu (303-492-8401, mail to CU Boulder, 184 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309)

Mi-Kyoung Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy.
Mitzi.Lee@colorado.edu (Hellems 197, mail to CU Boulder, 232 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309)

Laura Michaelis, Associate Professor of Linguistics.
Laura.Michaelis@colorado.edu (Hellems 292, 303-492-1990, mail to CU Boulder, 295 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309)

Robert Pasnau, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy.
Pasnau@spot.colorado.edu (Hellems 276, 303-492-4837, mail to CU Boulder, 232 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309)

Emeriti and Emeritae
Harold D. Evjen, Professor Emeritus.
Ernst A. Fredricksmeyer, Professor Emeritus.
Barbara Hill.
Robert L. Hohlfelder, Professor Emeritus.
Joy K. King, Associate Professor Emerita.
Ed L. Miller, Professor Emeritus.
Hara Tzavella-Evjen, Professor Emerita.