Faculty and Staff

Department of Classics

Department office: 6 Coleman Hall
Phone: 570-577-1335
Fax: 570-577-1064

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Matthew J. Adams
Visiting Assistant Professor
70 Coleman, x72413
email: matthew.j.adams@bucknell.edu

 

click here for Professor Adams' personal webpage

 

(Ph.D. Penn State) Egyptology. An archaeologist specializing in ancient Egypt and the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages with several ongoing field projects in both countries. His particular interest is in the 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.

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Kevin Daly
Assistant Professor
72 Coleman Hall, x73522
email: kdaly@bucknell.edu

 

faculty profile: http://www.bucknell.edu/x42920.xml

 

(Ph.D. Harvard University) A philologist specializing in epigraphy and historiography. He also has particular interest in prose style, Caesar, and military history. A field archaeologist, Professor Daly serves as Senior Supervisor at the Athenian Agora Excavations where he has worked for fifteen years.

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Janet D. Jones
Professor (on leave '09 - 10)

Robert Hall, x71624

email: jjones@bucknell.edu

web page: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jjones/

 

(Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A classical archaeologist who offers a wide range of courses on the material culture of the ancient world. Her special areas of interest include ancient technology and environment, the early Roman empire, and Roman historical narrative art.

Stephanie Larson

Associate Professor and Chair, NEH Chair in the Humanities 2009-2012
58 Coleman Hall, x73729
email: slarson@bucknell.edu

 

webpage: www.eg.bucknell.edu/~slarsonweb

 

faculty profile: http://www.bucknell.edu/x50594.xml

 

(Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) A Greek historian and philologist with special interests in the construction and maintenance of regional, ethnic and gender identities in Archaic and Classical Greece. Professor Larson has published a book on late Archaic Boiotian Identity (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007) and articles on the Odyssey, Herodotus, Sappho, and Boiotian epigraphy (GRBS; CJ; ZPE; Mnemosyne). Future interests include issues of kingship and gender in Herodotus; ethnic identities and audience expectation in the poetry of Pindar; Euripides and the sophists; Odysseus in Greek tragedy; Greek history, all centuries and millennia!

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Kristine Trego
Assistant Professor
71 Coleman, x72373
email: kmt012@bucknell.edu

 

faculty profile: http://www.bucknell.edu/x50579.xml

 

(Ph.D. Cincinnati) Main interests: Roman literature and biography; Plutarch; underwater Archaeology. In Philology and History Professor Trego works in Latin and Greek prose narratives, specifically biography, historiography, and the ancient novel -- throughout she focuses on narrative and rhetorical theories. In Archaeology she works in the Aegean in Nautical Archaeology excavating ancient Greek and Roman shipwrecks. Here Professor Trego concentrates on the utilitarian wares and crew's personal items.


 

Connie Yoder, Academic Assistant

6 Coleman Hall, x71205, 1335


I feel very fortunate to have worked at Bucknell University since April of 1986. I spent 3 years in the Engineering College, 18 years in the Arts and Sciences Deans Office and joined the Classics and Religion departments in the fall of 2007 as their Academic Assistant.
mailto: cyoder@bucknell.edu)