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.

  • Kevin Daly

    Associate Professor
    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

  • 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

  • Leo Landrey

    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Brown University
    Scholarly interests: Imperial Latin epic, civil war narratives in prose and poetry, Hellenistic poetry, boldness in antiquity.

  • Stephanie Larson

    Associate Professor
    Department Chair
    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

  • Sara Watkins

    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. Florida State University
    Scholarly interests: Greek and Latin poetry, Latin epic, Post-Augustan Latin literature, Roman history, allusion and intertextuality

  • Jane Baker

    Academic Assistant