Guests

Christopher S. Celenza is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also professor of History and Classics. He also served a Vice Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences. He served as the 21st Director of the American Academy in Rome ...

Barry Strauss is a classicist and a military and naval historian and consultant. In addition to teaching at Cornell, he is also the Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution. As the Series Editor of Princeton's Turning Points in Ancient History and author of nine books on ancient History, P...

Catherine Kearns is a professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. Her research examines the intersections between social and environmental change in Mediterranean landscapes during the Iron Age period. In her first book project, The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Envir...

Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He taught previously at the University of Wales Lampeter and the University of Southampton. His research interests include the politics of the past, nationalism and colonialism, a...

Glenn M. Schwartz is Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is a Near Eastern archaeologist who has directed excavations in Syria and Iraq and conducts research on the emergence and early trajectory of complex societies in Syria and Mesopot...

Sturt Manning is currently Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics and Director, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, at Cornell University, USA. He is also at present an Adjunct Professor at the Cyprus Institute – Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC). ...

Race Before Race: Ethnic Difference in the Ancient Mediterranean is a First Year Seminar at Johns Hopkins University which explores premodern constructions of race, ethnicity, and ethnic difference, focusing on Asian, European, and African civilizations around the Mediterranean basin between 1000 BC...

Sarah Nooter is a professor of Classics and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (2012) and The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (2017). She is co-editor (with Shane Butler) of ...

Nandini Pandey is an associate professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University with degrees from Swarthmore, Oxford, Cambridge, and UC Berkeley. She welcomes undergraduate and graduate students working on any aspect of Latin literature, Roman culture, classical reception, or the invention of race....

Benjamin Anderson (PhD, Bryn Mawr, 2012) is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Classics at Cornell University. His research focuses on three areas: late antique and Byzantine art and architecture, the urban history of Constantinople, and the history of archaeology. Recent publications inc...

Theodore A. Tarkow, received his AB in Classics from Oberlin College and his MA and PhD in Classics from the University of Michigan. Now Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he has served since 1970, his published work has focused on the Greek lyric p...

Joe Goodkin is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter with a Bachelor's Degree in Classics from UW-Madison. For decades he has toured the country performing his original one-person song interpretations of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad (The Blues of Achilles), almost 400 performances between the two pieces in...