Noel Lenski (Ph.D. Princeton 1995), the Chair of the Classics Department, 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
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Diliana Angelova (Ph.D. Harvard 2005) studies Byzantine art and archaeology. Her first article, on gender and power in Byzantine ivories, won the American Medievalist Association's award for best first article.

She teaches courses on gender, Byzantine art and archaeology, and Greek art and archaeology.

diliana.angelova@colorado.edu
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Andrew Cain Andrew Cain (Ph.D. Cornell 2003) studies Latin literature from the Classical period to the Renaissance, but specializes in patristic and early medieval Latin literature. His first book, The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2009), is a literary-historical study that explores how Jerome manufactured authority for himself via the epistolary medium in an effort to counterbalance certain problematic aspects of his public profile. His second book is the first translation into any language of Jerome’s Commentary on Galatians (Catholic University of America Press 2010). He has co-organized two major international conferences and has co-edited their proceedings: Jerome of Stridon: His Life, Writings and Legacy (Ashgate 2009) and The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Ashgate 2009). In addition to numerous articles in progress, Prof. Cain is currently working on four books—a commentary on Jerome’s lengthy epitaph on Paula (Epist. 108), annotated translations of the homilies of Zeno of Verona and of the exegetical works of Gregory of Elvira, and a monograph on the life and writings of Gregory of Elvira.

andrew.cain@colorado.edu
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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.

diane.conlin@colorado.edu
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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. Her second book is a diachronic excavation monograph, Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society (Philadelphia 2005). She has worked at Sardis, Gordion, and Kerkenes Dag in Turkey, as well as at sites elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Prof. Dusinberre is the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.

Prof. Dusinberre teaches primarily Greek and Near Eastern archaeology. She has been awarded seven University of Colorado teaching awards and the Faculty Graduate Advisor Award.

elspeth.dusinberre@colorado.edu
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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 interrelationship. She is spending the 2007-08 academic year as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome working on her current book project, 'Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales '. She has contributed articles to the Cambridge Classics Journal and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, and has a paper forthcoming in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology.

jackie.elliott@colorado.edu
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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
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Peter Hunt (M.A. Colorado 1988, Ph.D. Stanford 1994), 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 articles and reviews in Historia, The Historian, The American Journal of Philology, Classical Review, and Classical Journal, he wrote seven articles for the Macmillan History of World Slavery and has contributed chapters to a number of forthcoming volumes: Arming Slaves in World History (Yale UP), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, The Cambridge World History of Slavery, and Brill's Companion to Thucydides. His second book project, War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens (under contract with Cambridge UP), uses the evidence of deliberative oratory as evidence for Athenian thinking and feeling about foreign relations.  

peter.hunt@colorado.edu
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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) and Oxford Readings in Ovid (2006) and the Blackwell Companion to Ovid (forthcoming). He is the author of more than 70 articles and reviews on a wide range of topics in Greek and Latin literature. His current research projects focus on Ovid's exile poetry.

peter.knox@colorado.edu
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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
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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 will appear 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 price in 2005 which allowed him to stay for two semesters in Berlin.

schutrum@colorado.edu
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