Faculty and Staff

Bucknell's classics curriculum covers more subject areas related to the classical world than do most classics departments of comparable size. Faculty members have expertise in archaeology, comparative literatures, history and philology.

  • Mathew J. Adams

    Visiting Adjunct Professor
    Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
    Scholarly interests: development of the first urban communities in both regions. Other interests include Biblical studies, Egyptian literature and philology, and Ancient Near East and the Aegean comparative mythology.

  • Ashli Baker

    Visiting Professor 2011-12
    Ph.D. University of Washington

    Scholarly interests: Roman Imperial Literature; the Greek and Roman Novel;  Apuleius' Metamorphoses, Florida, and Apologia; Ancient Magic; and the literary treatment of Roman law.

  • Kevin Daly

    Associate Professor
    Sabbatical 2011-2012
    Co-directing the Bucknell Excavation in Thebes, Greece
    Ph.D. Harvard University
    Scholarly interests: Latin prose writers, epigraphy, genre studies, ancient military history, Athenian topography, Latin pedagogy

  • Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

    Assistant Professor
    Ph.D Brown University

    "Scholarly interest: Latin literature, especially epic, drama, and historiography; Roman art and architecture; Hellenistic poetry and Imperial Greek literature; cultural memory theory."

  • Janet D. Jones

    Presidential Professor of Classics
    Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Scholarly interests: classical archaeology, ancient technology and environment, the early Roman Empire, Roman historical narrative art

  • Stephanie Larson

    Associate Professor
    NEH Chair in the Humanities 2009-2012
    Sabbatical 2011-2012
    Co-directing the Bucknell Excavation in Thebes, Greece
    Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
    Scholarly interests: ancient identities, ancient Greek magic, ancient historiography, political and military history, Hellenistic poetry and culture, Greek tragedy, mythology

  • Kristine M. Trego

    Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. University of Cincinnati
    Scholarly interests: Greek and Roman historiography, ancient biography, Plutarch, the ancient novel, nautical archaeology

  • Jane Baker

    Academic Assistant