People
PAMW Faculty
DANIELLE ALLEN (Professor of Classics, Dean of Humanities) has written The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (Princeton, 2001) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education (Chicago, 2004) as well as articles on Plato, Aristotle, oratory, tragedy, archaic poetry, democratic theory and practice, rhetoric, and political metaphor. Her interests span Athenian democracy, democratic theory, ancient philosophy, and ancient and modern poetics. She was a recipient of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.
MICHAEL ALLEN (Associate Professor of Classics) has prepared an edition of the ninth-century historian Frechulf of Lisieux and is the author of articles on medieval Latin historiography and poetry. His teaching is focused primarily on the Latin literature of the Middle Ages and on Latin palaeography.
CLIFFORD ANDO (Professor) is the author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, for which he was awarded the APA's Goodwin Award in 2003, and The Matter of the Gods (forthcoming from the University of California Press). He is the editor of Roman Religion (2003) and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006). His current research examines problems of law, administration and cultural change in the Roman empire.
ELIZABETH ASMIS (Professor of Classics) is the author of Epicurus' Scientific Method and articles on Plato, Philodemus, Lucretius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Her current research focuses on Hellenistic poetics, Stoic ethics, Cicero 's political philosophy, and the language of Plato. Her teaching covers Greek and Roman philosophy and literary criticism.
SHADI BARTSCH (Ann L. & Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics) is the author of Decoding the Ancient Novel; Actors in the Audience; and Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War; and articles on Vergil and on the philosophical gaze. Her teaching is primarily devoted to Roman literature and culture. She is the recipient of a Quantrell Teaching Award and a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
MICHAEL DIETLER (Associate Professor of Anthropology) is the author of Consumption and Colonial Encounters in the Rhône Basin of France and numerous articles on ancient Mediterranean colonialism. He is co-director of excavations at Lattes ( Languedoc ), investigating Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonial encounters in southern France. His teaching interests include archaeology and ethnoarchaeology, colonialism, political economy, economic anthropology, the history and sociology of archaeological practice, and Celtic Studies.
HELMA DIK (Associate Professor of Classics) is the author of Word Order in Ancient Greek and articles on the functional grammar of Greek. Her teaching and research are focused on Greek language and literature, incorporating insights from general linguistics and literary theory. Her current project is Words into Verse, on the pragmatics of tragic dialogue. She is the recipient of a Quantrell Teaching Award.
CHRISTOPHER A. FARAONE (Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and the College, Professor of Classics) has written Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Early Greek Myth and Ritual, Ancient Greek Love Magic and (with David Dodd) Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives. He has forthcoming articles on Hesiod, Hipponax and the wandering womb and he is currently at work on two books, one on early hexametrical incantations and another on the poetic form of Greek elegy. He is also the co-editor of Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, and Masks of Dionysus. His teaching focuses on Archaic and Hellenistic Greek poetry, magic and religion, and Near Eastern influences on early Greek culture.
JONATHAN M. HALL (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities, Professor and Chair of Classics, Professor of History) is the author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, for which he was awarded the APA 's Goodwin Award in 1999, and Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, which won the 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press. He has just completed A History of the Archaic Greek World for Blackwell. His teaching is focused on Greek history, historiography, and archaeology.
JANET JOHNSON (Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology) studies Egyptian language and Egypt in the “Late Period” (1st millennium B.C.). Her recent publications include the 3rd edition of her teaching grammar of Demotic, Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy (available online ) as well as articles on ethnicity and the legal and economic status of women in Ancient Egypt. She is also Director of the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project and Director of the Egyptian Readingbook Project.
WALTER KAEGI (Professor of History and Voting Member of the Oriental Institute) concentrates his research on Byzantine and Late Roman history, especially from the fourth through eleventh centuries, with special attention to the seventh century. He is the author of five books, the latest of which is Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium. He is presently completing a monograph on the Dynamics of Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa and is the co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference and the editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen.
BRUCE LINCOLN (Caroline E. Haskell Professor of History of Religions) has thematic interests that gravitate toward the social and political dimensions of myth, ritual, and cosmology and he works with materials from Greece , Rome , Achaemenid Persia , and Prechristian Northern Europe. His books include Authority: Construction and Corrosion, Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice, and Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11. He is also the 2002 recipient of the University of Chicago Press Gordon J. Laing award for his book, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship.
DAVID MARTINEZ (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor and Chair of New Testament and Early Christian Literature) is the author of P. Michigan XVI: A Greek Love Charm from Egypt and Baptized for our Sakes: A Leather Trisagion from Egypt. He has also written articles on documentary Greek papyri and ancient Greek religion and magic. His current projects include the publication of the Texas papyri and projects which relate papyrological research to the study of early Christianity. His teaching interests focus on Greek papyrology and paleography, Greek language, Hellenistic authors, and early Christian literature.
EMANUEL MAYER (Assistant Professor of Classics) has written Rome is Where the Emperor is. State Monuments in the Decentralised Roman Empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II (in German). His interests span political imagery of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, representational behavior of Roman élites under the Empire, as well as ancient urbanism.
RICHARD T. NEER (David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities, Art History and the College) is the author of Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, fascicule 7, and articles on Athenian pottery, theories of style, Archaic Greek sculpture, and seventeenth-century French painting. Interests include the development of naturalism in Greek art, Athenian history and questions of representation, architectural sculpture at Delphi and Olympia , and philosophical aesthetics.
WENDY OLMSTED (Professor in the New Collegiate Division and the Humanities Division) studies ancient and Renaissance/Reformation English rhetoric and literary history by employing structuralist and rhetorical methods. She has recently worked on Renaissance/Reformation representations of emotions pertinent to competition for honor as they are informed by Homer's epics, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Politics and Roman writers such as Cicero and Quintilian and is currently writing for Blackwell Publishing a book, entitled Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction.
DENNIS PARDEE (Professor of Northwest Semitics)
MARK PAYNE (Assistant Professor of Classics) is the author of several articles on Greek poetry and poetics from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. His first book, Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction, will be published by Cambridge University Press in March 2007. He is the book review editor for Classical Philology and a member of the University's Poetry and Poetics program.
JAMES REDFIELD (Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures and Social Thought) has written Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector, The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy and articles on Homer, Herodotus, Plato, and Greek society. His teaching is focused on Greek language, literature, and social history as they can be understood in the light of theory drawn from modern linguistics and anthropology.
SETH F. C. RICHARDSON (Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History) is responsible for NELC's graduate program in Ancient Near Eastern History and is the Mesopotamian Faculty Advisor to the Oriental Institute Museum. His dissertation, The Collapse of a Complex State : A Reappraisal of the End of the First Dynasty of Babylon, 1683-1597 B.C. , was a historical study of the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the First Dynasty of Babylon and published for the first time almost 700 Late Old Babylonian texts. He is now continuing work on research projects related to Old Babylonian economic and administrative texts, Assyrian political history, an intellectual history of early Babylonian liver divination, and Ancient Near East labor history, state collapse, and chronology.
ROBERT RITNER (Professor of Egyptology) specializes in Roman, Hellenistic, Late and Third Intermediate Period (Libyan and Nubian) Egypt. He is the author of the volume The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. His research and publications treat Egyptian religion, magic, medicine, language and literature, as well as social and political history.
MARTHA ROTH (Professor of Assyriology, Associate Provost) researches and publishes on the legal and social history of the ancient Near East. Her primary interests have been on family law and on women's legal and social issues, and on the compilation and transmission of law norms. Currently, she is working on a project on Mesopotamian law cases. She is also editor-in-charge of the Oriental Institute's 26-volume Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project.
D. NICHOLAS RUDALL (Professor of Classics Emeritus) has recently published translations of Euripides' Bacchae and the Iphigeneia plays and Sophocles' Electra and Antigone. A translation of The Trojan Women is forthcoming. These translations are meant for performance. Professor Rudall has directed many classical works at the Court Theatre, of which he is the founding director. His teaching is focused on tragedy and the ancient theater, Aristophanes, and Propertius.
DAVID SCHLOEN (Associate Professor of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology) is the author of The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East. He specializes in the archaeology and socioeconomic history of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant, with a focus on the interaction of material conditions and socially constitutive ideologies.
MATTHEW W. STOLPER (John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies and Professor of Assyriology) has worked primarily on legal and administrative texts from Achaemenid Babylonia with a view to illuminating the social, economic, and political history of the region ca. 450-300 BC. He is currently working on Achaemenid Elamite and Achaemenid Aramaic administrative texts excavated by the Oriental Institute in 1933 at Persepolis. His teaching interests include Akkadian historical and legal texts of the late first millennium, with forays into Old Persian and Elamite language and Achaemenid history. He serves on the editorial boards of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary and the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
THEO VAN DEN HOUT (Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages, PAMW Graduate Advisor) is executive editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary. He is interested in questions of ancient record management, Hittite history and linguistics as well as the history and languages of first millennium Anatolia.
PETER WHITE (Professor of Classics) has written Promised Verse: Poets and Poetry in the Society of Augustan Rome, for which he won the APA's Goodwin Award in 1995, and articles and reviews on Horace, Statius, Martial, the Historia Augusta, and the place of poets in Roman society. He is present writing a book on Cicero's letters. His teaching is focused on Roman comedy and satire and on Greek and Roman historiography.
DAVID WRAY (Associate Professor of Classics) is the author of Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood ( Cambridge, 2001) and is currently writing Phaedra's Virtue: Ethics, Gender, and Seneca's Tragedy. His research and teaching interests include Hellenistic and Roman poetry (especially Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Tibullus, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Statius); Greek epic and tragedy; Roman philosophy; ancient and modern relations between literature and philosophy; gender; theory and practice of literary translation; and the reception of Greco-Roman thought and literature, from Shakespeare and Corneille to Pound and Zukofsky. He is the editor of Classical Philology and a member of the University's Poetry and Poetics program.