People
Executive Committee
Annette Yoshiko Reed
areed@hds.harvard.eduProfessor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Harvard Divinity School
Giovanni Battista Bazzana
gbazzana@hds.harvard.eduProfessor of New Testament
Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity Areas of Expertise: Synoptic Gospels and apocalyptic literature; papyrology: New Testament studies
Irene Peirano Garrison
peirano@fas.harvard.eduPope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature
Ancient Mediterranean 2nd century BCE - 4th century CE; reception of Greco-Roman culture 18th - 20th century Areas of Expertise: Roman poetry; ancient rhetoric; authorship; global antiquity; philology.
Paul Kosmin
pjkosmin@fas.harvard.eduPhilip J. King Professor of Ancient History
Near Eastern, Greek, and Hellenistic Archaic to Roman Areas of Expertise: Greek history and historiography; ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian, and Roman); ancient ethnography, geography, and chronology; eastern...
Ancient Studies Faculty
Alexander Riehle
ariehle@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of the Classics
Eastern Mediterranean Late Antiquity and Byzantium (4th c. CE–15th c. CE) Areas of Expertise: Byzantine literature; Greek rhetoric and epistolography; sociology of literature; textual criticism
Annette Yoshiko Reed
areed@hds.harvard.eduProfessor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Harvard Divinity School
Bahadir Yildirim
bahadir_yildirim@harvard.eduHarvard Art Museums Expedition Administrator
Eastern Mediterranean, specifically Asia Minor 4th c. BCE–7th c. CE Areas of Expertise: Hellenistic and Roman art and archaeology with a specialization in sculpture; cultural identities
Charles M. Stang
cstang@hds.harvard.eduProfessor of Early Christian Thought
Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions
Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Late antiquity (3rd c. CE–9th c. CE) Areas of Expertise: early Christian thought; Greek philosophy (especially Neoplatonism); religions of the ancient Mediterranean; asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism
David Elmer
delmer@fas.harvard.eduEliot Professor of Greek Literature
Greco-Roman world 8th c. BCE–4th c. CE Areas of Expertise: Greek literature; Homeric epic; Greek and Roman novels
David Stern
dstern@fas.harvard.eduHarry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Near East (Roman Palestine and Babylonia primarily) Late Antiquity Areas of Expertise: Roman empire; race, ethnicity and identity; uses of the past; ancient Judaism; classical Jewish literature (Talmud and Midrash); early Christian and Jewish connections...
Emma Dench
dench@fas.harvard.eduMcLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Roman empire (Mediterranean, Near East, Europe) 300 BCE–300 CE Areas of Expertise: Roman empire; race, ethnicity, and identity; uses of the past
Eric Driscoll
edriscoll@fas.harvard.eduLecturer on Classics
Greek world Early Iron Age through Hellenistic Areas of Expertise: imperialism; epigraphy; economic history; art and archaeology; historiography
Giovanni Battista Bazzana
gbazzana@hds.harvard.eduProfessor of New Testament
Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity Areas of Expertise: Synoptic Gospels and apocalyptic literature; papyrology: New Testament studies
Gojko Barjamovic
barjamovic@fas.harvard.eduSenior Lecturer on Assyriology
Western Asia Bronze and Iron Age Areas of Expertise: economic history and trade; political history and governance; comparative approaches to the use of knowledge; Assyriology and the sciences: chronology, foodways, and aDNA; philology and text editions
Gregory Nagy
gnagy@fas.harvard.eduFrancis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies
Greece and the Greek world Areas of Expertise: archaic and classical Greek poetry and prose; rhetoric; linguistics; metrics; traditions
Harry Benjamin Morgan
harry_morgan@fas.harvard.eduCollege Fellow in Ancient History
Mediterranean world, especially Rome and Italy c. 750 BCE–500CE Areas of Expertise: Roman social and cultural history; music; spectacle; slavery
Irene Peirano Garrison
peirano@fas.harvard.eduPope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature
Ancient Mediterranean 2nd century BCE - 4th century CE; reception of Greco-Roman culture 18th - 20th century Areas of Expertise: Roman poetry; ancient rhetoric; authorship; global antiquity; philology.
James Zainaldin
zainaldin@g.harvard.eduLecturer on the Classics
Greece, Rome, China c. 450BCE–300CE science, technology, and medicine in Greek and Roman culture; Latin literature, esp. of the early Empire; Greek and Roman philosophy; Sino-Roman and Sino-Hellenic comparative studies
Janling Fu
Preceptor in Expository Writing
Levant, eastern Mediterranean, ancient Near East Late Bronze and Iron Ages Areas of Expertise: Hebrew Bible; Near Eastern archaeology; feasting; ceramics; Semitic philology
Jared Hudson
jhudson@fas.harvard.eduAssociate Professor of the Classics
Ancient Rome, Roman Italy, and the Roman Empire Roman Republic and early Principate, especially the 1st c. BCE and CE Areas of Expertise: Roman literature and culture; Latin prose (oratory and rhetoric, grammatical tradition and etymology, technical and...
Jason Ur
jasonur@fas.harvard.eduStephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology
Near East Prehistory to the present Areas of expertise: Near Eastern archaeology and history; urbanism; landscape; social organization; states; empires
Jon D. Levenson
jlevenson@hds.harvard.eduAlbert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies
Near East Biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic periods Areas of Expertise: Jewish thought and literature
Karen King
kking@hds.harvard.eduHollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
Italy and eastern Mediterranean 1st to 5th c. CE Areas of Expertise: sexuality and gender; martyrdom and torture; early Christian Coptic literature; New Testament; history of ancient Christianity
Kathleen Coleman
kcoleman@fas.harvard.eduJames Loeb Professor of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums
Roman Empire Areas of Expertise: Flavian literature; Latin epigraphy; Roman spectacle
Kimberley C. Patton
kpatton@hds.harvard.eduProfessor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion
Ancient Mediterranean and eastern/central Anatolia Neolithic; Bronze Age to Archaic/Classical periods Areas of Expertise: archaeology, iconography, and material culture of ancient Greece and Mediterranean; sacrifice; mortuary ritual; animals in religion...
Leah Jane Whittington
lwhittington@fas.harvard.eduJohn L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Europe (Italy, France, England) Ancient to early modern, especially 1350–1700 Areas of Expertise: classical reception; English Renaissance literature; survival and transmission of ancient culture; Italian humanism; historical poetics
Margaret Andrews
margaretandrews@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of the Classics
Italy ca. 850 BCE - 850 CE Areas of Expertise: Roman archaeology, ancient urbanism, longue durée urban transformation, social history, women and gender
Michael Witzel
witzel@fas.harvard.eduWales Professor of Sanskrit
Ancient India, Nepal, and Kashmir; ancient Iran; Central Asia Late Bronze Age to historical period (up to 600 CE) Areas of Expertise: Vedic language, literature, religion; philology and manuscripts; Nepalese history: inscriptions, texts, rituals...
Mohsen Goudarzi
mgoudarzi@hds.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Islamic Studies
the Middle East/ the Eastern Mediterranean late antiquity Areas of Expertise: Quranic studies; early Islamic history; late antique literature.
Naomi A. Weiss
nweiss@fas.harvard.eduGardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities
Greece (mainland and islands) 8th c. BCE–4th c. BCE Areas of Expertise: ancient Greek poetry; theater; music; performance culture
Natasha Bershadsky
nbershadsky@fas.harvard.eduLecturer on the Classics
Greece Archaic and Classical periods Areas of Expertise: archaic warfare; archaic lyric and epic; Anatolian, Ugaritic, and Biblical studies
Paul Kosmin
pjkosmin@fas.harvard.eduPhilip J. King Professor of Ancient History
Near Eastern, Greek, and Hellenistic Archaic to Roman Areas of Expertise: Greek history and historiography; ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian, and Roman); ancient ethnography, geography, and chronology; eastern...
Peter Der Manuelian
peter_manuelian@harvard.eduBarbara Bell Professor of Egyptology
Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Egyptology (pharaonic Egyptian civilization) Areas of Expertise: Giza Pyramids; Egyptian language; Egyptian art, architecture and history, particularly 3rd to 2nd millennia; digital epigraphy; digital humanities (visualization, virtual reality, augmented...
Peter Machinist
machinis@fas.harvard.eduHancock Research Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages
Ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia and the Levant, centering on Israel and Judah 2nd and 1st millennia BCE Areas of Expertise: comparative study of cultures; the history of Assyria; Hebrew Bible and the history of Israel and Judah; imperialism and...
Ancient Studies Graduate Students
Amaia Cook
amaiacook@hds.harvard.eduMaster of divinity candidate
Greco-Roman world Roman Period, 1st Century CE Research topics: early Christianity, Pauline epistles, synoptic Gospels,
Andrew Deloucas
adeloucas@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Assyriology
Mesopotamia 3rd through 1st Millennium BCE Mesopotamian religion and literature, temple and state interaction, politics of power, scribal history and identity
Chance Bonar
chancebonar@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in New Testament and Early Christianity
Italy and eastern Mediterranean Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras Research topics: apocryphal Christian literature; apocalyptic literature; papyrology; Coptic; enslavement in antiquity
Connor Kokot
connorkokot@hds.harvard.eduMaster of theological studies candidate
Ancient Mediterranean Antiquity Research topics: historical Jesus, synoptic Gospels, Pauline epistles, Origen, Augustine
Giorgia Bove
giorgia_bove@g.harvard.eduPhD Candidate in New Testament and Early Christianity
Ancient Mediterranean 2nd century BCE - 15th century CE Research topics: apocalypticism; millenarianism; religious-philosophical movements; Neoplatonism; mysticism; embodiment; later Greek reception
Joe Currie
joecurrie@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Judea and Mesopotamia Achaemenid and Hellenistic eras Research topics: apocalypses and historiography; cultic institutions and political resistance; the afterlife and divine dead
Joseph Kimmel
jlk623@mail.harvard.eduPhD candidate in New Testament and Early Christianity
Ancient Mediterranean Hellenistic and Roman eras Research topics: comparative onomastics; spoken and written/engraved invocations; the agentive and ontological dimensions of proper names; posthumanism(s); neo-materialism(s)
Julia Judge Mulhall
juliajudge@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Classical Archaeology
the Greek East Late Antiquity Research topics: Greek and Roman religion; sanctuaries and sacred space; early Christianity; epigraphy and ancient graffiti
Julia Puglisi
jpuglisi@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Egyptology
Memphite cemeteries in Egypt Old Kingdom (2600 - 2100 BCE) Research topics: developments of Old Kingdom cemeteries; Egyptian word-play; digital humanities in Egyptology
Justin Miller
js_miller@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in the Classics
the Mediterranean; Egypt; Near East Hellenistic period Research topics: multilingualism; ethnic studies; Hellenistic poetry; intercultural interactions; cultural transfer
Katherine Rose
katherinerose@fas.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Archaeology
Near East and North Africa (Egypt and Sudan) New Kingdom Egypt (18th dynasty, 1549-1292 BCE); Napatan period in Nubia (1000-300 BCE); Meroitic period in Nubia (300 BCE- 350 CE) Research topics: landscape archaeology; mortuary archaeology; Amarna period...
Miriam-Simma Walfish
walfish@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Jewish history and culture
Babylonia; the land of Israel 200 - 600 CE Research topics: Mishnah; Talmud; gender; family; education
Paul Johnston
pgjohnston@g.harvard.eduPhD candidate in Classical Philology, secondary field in Comparative Literature
the Mediterranean 5th c. B.C.E. – 3rd c. C.E. Greek and Latin literature in the Roman empire; archaic and classical Greek poetry; classical reception, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; cultural and literary history; comparative and...
