Research
Faculty Research
SHADI BARTSCH is working on the relationship of poetry and philosophy in Persius' Satires.
MICHAEL DIETLER is engaged in archaeological research on colonial encounters in the ancient Western Mediterranean (including co-direction of excavations at the Iron Age port town of Lattes , in southern France ) and socio-historical work on the recursive relationship between ancient and modern colonialisms.
CHRISTOPHER FARAONE, in addition to books on ancient Greek elegy and ancient Greek incantations as a genre of song, is working on amulets of the Greco Roman period, including those used to control the wandering womb.
JONATHAN HALL is completing an exploration of historical method in Greek protohistory for the Blackwell History of the Archaic Greek World.
JANET JOHNSON is working on the letter P for the Demotic Dictionary, preparing a talk on Roman period Nubian use of the temple of Philae based on the Demotic graffiti at the temple, and once again trying to make sense of the Deotic text called the "Demotic Chronicle".
DAVID MARTINEZ is working on an article for the Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, "Christianity in the Papyri", and also a book on a corpus of Ptolemaic cartonnage administrative papyri from the University of Texas collection.
EMANUEL MAYER is working on the feasibility of the concept of "mass communication" in Roman archaeology and history and on the decline of honorific monuments and imperial portraiture in the late third century CE.
RICHARD NEER is currently working on a book entitled Theory of Sculpture: Image and Beholder in Classical Greece, a textbook, Art and Archaeology of Greece for Thames & Hudson, and studies of Athenian pottery, connoisseurship, and Nicolas Poussin.
WENDY OLMSTED is copy-editing "Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction" (with essays on Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Cicero, and Augustine) for Blackwell Publishing and preparing the final version of "When Grown Men Cry," a book-length manuscript that draws on Homer, Aristotle, Cicero, Plutarch, Augustine and other writers who analyze emotion in relation to rhetoric.
JAMES REDFIELD is working on a book on the Platonic dialogues, asking how they mean what they mean and what constitutes sound interpretation.
SETH RICHARDSON is working on a history of the Babylonian countryside, administrative archives from Old Babylonian Sippar, and a literary history of live-omen texts.
DAVID SCHLOEN is currently involved in archaeological excavations in Turkey and Israel. In addition, he is developing an Internet database system for the study and publication of archaeological data, ancient texts, and other aspects of cultural heritage.
THEO VAN DEN HOUT is examining questions of ancient record management, especially the organization of tablet collections in the days of the Hittite empire.
PETER WHITE is researching and writing a book on the social pragmatics of Cicero's correspondence.