# People [ Filter by type arrow\_circle\_right ](/people) ## Executive Committee [### Annette Yoshiko Reed ](/people/annette-yoshiko-reed) Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Harvard Divinity School ![Annette Yoshiko Reed](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/annette_reed.jpg?itok=dxs3C5tD) [### Giovanni Battista Bazzana ](/people/giovanni-battista-bazzana) Professor of New Testament Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity Areas of Expertise: Synoptic Gospels and apocalyptic literature; papyrology: New Testament studies ![459c4f56-9e8e-447c-b868-a6fe0cbf723c_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/459c4f56-9e8e-447c-b868-a6fe0cbf723c_1.jpg?itok=lSg6fZNd) [### Irene Peirano Garrison ](/people/irene-peirano-garrison) Pope 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. ![irenepg-0224_2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/irenepg-0224_2.jpg?itok=NzhuiT5n) [### Paul Kosmin ](/people/paul-kosmin) Philip 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... ![Kosmin](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/kosmin.jpeg?itok=zgGXNqBn) ## Ancient Studies Faculty [### Alexander Riehle ](/people/alexander-riehle) Assistant 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 ![Riehle](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/riehle_headshot_1.jpg?itok=B4KaMW8o) [### Annette Yoshiko Reed ](/people/annette-yoshiko-reed) Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Harvard Divinity School ![Annette Yoshiko Reed](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/annette_reed.jpg?itok=dxs3C5tD) [### Bahadir Yildirim ](/people/bahadir-yildirim) [bahadir\_yildirim@harvard.edu](mailto:bahadir_yildirim@harvard.edu)Harvard 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 ![Baha Yildirim](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/yildirim-sd2012.2284_01.jpg?itok=kCNYbjsy) [### Charles M. Stang ](/people/charles-m-stang) Professor 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 ![Stang](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/charles-stang-220px_0.jpg?itok=0dWQnQN7) [### David Elmer ](/people/david-elmer) Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Greco-Roman world 8th c. BCE–4th c. CE Areas of Expertise: Greek literature; Homeric epic; Greek and Roman novels ![Elmer](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/elmer_photo_june_2014_smaller.jpg?itok=oCtZoO1F) [### David Stern ](/people/david-stern) Harry 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... ![Stern](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/david_stern.jpg?itok=fUmg4iAC) [### Emma Dench ](/people/emma-dench) McLean 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 ![Dench](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/dench_new2.jpg?itok=lCGHtOoB) [### Eric Driscoll ](/people/eric-driscoll) Lecturer on Classics Greek world Early Iron Age through Hellenistic Areas of Expertise: imperialism; epigraphy; economic history; art and archaeology; historiography ![Eric Driscoll](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/ewd_1.jpg?itok=omNbw---) [### Giovanni Battista Bazzana ](/people/giovanni-battista-bazzana) Professor of New Testament Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity Areas of Expertise: Synoptic Gospels and apocalyptic literature; papyrology: New Testament studies ![459c4f56-9e8e-447c-b868-a6fe0cbf723c_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/459c4f56-9e8e-447c-b868-a6fe0cbf723c_1.jpg?itok=lSg6fZNd) [### Gojko Barjamovic ](/people/gojko-barjamovic) Senior 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 ![Barjamovic](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/gojko.pic_2_0.jpg?itok=ClOb5_zz) [### Gregory Nagy ](/people/gregory-nagy) Francis 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 ![Nagy](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/nagy.jpg?itok=1Jju9EFV) [### Harry Benjamin Morgan ](/people/harry-benjamin-morgan) [harry\_morgan@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:harry_morgan@fas.harvard.edu)College 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 ![Morgan](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/rsz_harry_morgan_3_1.jpg?itok=0VjSuEQJ) [### Irene Peirano Garrison ](/people/irene-peirano-garrison) Pope 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. ![irenepg-0224_2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/irenepg-0224_2.jpg?itok=NzhuiT5n) [### James Zainaldin ](/people/james-zainaldin) Lecturer 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 ![zainaldin_photo_-_james_zainaldin.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/zainaldin_photo_-_james_zainaldin.jpeg?itok=sJjIfY9V) [### Janling Fu ](/people/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 ![Janling Fu](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/fujanling.jpeg?itok=fZV8aLhI) [### Jared Hudson ](/people/jared-hudson) Associate 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... ![Hudson](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/hudson_1.jpg?itok=7PkpnpBi) [### Jason Ur ](/people/jason-ur) Stephen 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 ![epas2019_20190922_jason_iphone_033_-_jason_ur.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/epas2019_20190922_jason_iphone_033_-_jason_ur.jpg?itok=-er-1iic) [### Jon D. Levenson ](/people/jon-d-levenson) Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies Near East Biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic periods Areas of Expertise: Jewish thought and literature ![Levenson](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/levensonjon2.jpg?itok=yxGCIuKJ) [### Karen King ](/people/karen-king) Hollis 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 ![King](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/kingkaren-april-2011.jpg?itok=qtWGiYco) [### Kathleen Coleman ](/people/kathleen-coleman) [ kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu]()James Loeb Professor of the Classics Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums Roman Empire Areas of Expertise: Flavian literature; Latin epigraphy; Roman spectacle ![Coleman](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/coleman_k_photo_9.2014_img_1327.jpg?itok=annaQn6o) [### Kimberley C. Patton ](/people/kimberly-c-patton) Professor 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... ![Patton](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/kimberley-patton-2008-cswr-event.jpg?itok=SUeeHLjN) [### Leah Jane Whittington ](/people/leah-jane-whittington) John 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 ![Whittington](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/whitington_1.jpg?itok=S_a9n-6q) [### Margaret Andrews ](/people/margaret-andrews) Assistant 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 ![andrews_headshot_cropped_-_margaret_andrews.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/andrews_headshot_cropped_-_margaret_andrews.jpg?itok=0cuPpE1h) [### Michael Witzel ](/people/michael-witzel) Wales 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... ![Witzel](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/witzel_0.jpg?itok=xLWcF91w) [### Mohsen Goudarzi ](/people/mohsen-goudarzi) Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies the Middle East/ the Eastern Mediterranean late antiquity Areas of Expertise: Quranic studies; early Islamic history; late antique literature. ![dsc_0327_-_cropped_2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/dsc_0327_-_cropped_2.jpg?itok=Ko_I1XZq) [### Naomi A. Weiss ](/people/naomi-weiss) Gardner 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 ![NaomiWeiss](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/weiss_naomi_website_photo_4_0.jpg?itok=Icvd4REH) [### Natasha Bershadsky ](/people/natasha-bershadsky) Lecturer on the Classics Greece Archaic and Classical periods Areas of Expertise: archaic warfare; archaic lyric and epic; Anatolian, Ugaritic, and Biblical studies ![Bershadsky](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/bershadsky2_0.jpg?itok=RAY-j4E_) [### Paul Kosmin ](/people/paul-kosmin) Philip 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... ![Kosmin](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/kosmin.jpeg?itok=zgGXNqBn) [### Peter Der Manuelian ](/people/peter-der-manuelian) [peter\_manuelian@harvard.edu](mailto:peter_manuelian@harvard.edu)Barbara 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... ![manuelian](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/manuelian_headshot.jpg?itok=X45ubULY) [### Peter Machinist ](/people/peter-machinist) Hancock 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... ![Machinist](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/machinistpeter_1.jpg?itok=bit8l7Nz) ## Ancient Studies Graduate Students [### Amaia Cook ](/people/amaia-cook) Master of divinity candidate Greco-Roman world Roman Period, 1st Century CE Research topics: early Christianity, Pauline epistles, synoptic Gospels, ![img_4174_-_amaia_cook_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/img_4174_-_amaia_cook_1.jpg?itok=bpPfGrOd) [### Andrew Deloucas ](/people/andrew-deloucas) PhD candidate in Assyriology Mesopotamia 3rd through 1st Millennium BCE Mesopotamian religion and literature, temple and state interaction, politics of power, scribal history and identity ![img_1689_-_andrew_deloucas-1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/img_1689_-_andrew_deloucas-1.jpg?itok=EoOkummk) [### Chance Bonar ](/people/chance-bonar) PhD 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 ![0358_cropped_-_chance_bonar.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/0358_cropped_-_chance_bonar.jpg?itok=JoLPQdmM) [### Connor Kokot ](/people/connor-kokot) Master of theological studies candidate Ancient Mediterranean Antiquity Research topics: historical Jesus, synoptic Gospels, Pauline epistles, Origen, Augustine ![0ad0e169-6f9e-413e-ac4e-9537f7a7c3a0_-_connor_kokot.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/0ad0e169-6f9e-413e-ac4e-9537f7a7c3a0_-_connor_kokot.jpeg?itok=y4GZTgXx) [### Giorgia Bove ](/people/giorgia-bove) [giorgia\_bove@g.harvard.edu](mailto:giorgia_bove@g.harvard.edu)PhD 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 ![119008404_10221626432602930_7566052328564643865_n.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/119008404_10221626432602930_7566052328564643865_n.jpg?itok=ZOp17mhW) [### Joe Currie ](/people/joe-currie) PhD 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 ![bio_photo_-_joe_currie.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/bio_photo_-_joe_currie.jpg?itok=KUN9BDm_) [### Joseph Kimmel ](/people/joseph-kimmel) PhD 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) ![img_1884_-_joseph_kimmel.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/img_1884_-_joseph_kimmel.jpg?itok=bX60x_L2) [### Julia Judge Mulhall ](/people/julia-judge) PhD 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 ![p1000620_-_julia_judge.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/p1000620_-_julia_judge.jpg?itok=iCJbvJ_d) [### Julia Puglisi ](/people/julia-puglisi) PhD 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 ![puglisijulia_0_-_julia_viani_puglisi_1.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/puglisijulia_0_-_julia_viani_puglisi_1.png?itok=9fL7SmEw) [### Justin Miller ](/people/justin-miller) [js\_miller@g.harvard.edu](mailto:js_miller@g.harvard.edu)PhD candidate in the Classics the Mediterranean; Egypt; Near East Hellenistic period Research topics: multilingualism; ethnic studies; Hellenistic poetry; intercultural interactions; cultural transfer ![img_2652_-_justin_miller.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/img_2652_-_justin_miller.jpg?itok=M7xkFrHh) [### Katherine Rose ](/people/katherine-rose) PhD 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... ![krose_2_-_katherine_rose.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/krose_2_-_katherine_rose.jpg?itok=WTVGTMso) [### Miriam-Simma Walfish ](/people/miriam-simma-walfish) PhD candidate in Jewish history and culture Babylonia; the land of Israel 200 - 600 CE Research topics: Mishnah; Talmud; gender; family; education ![miriam-simma_walfish_headshot_-_miriam-simma_walfish.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/miriam-simma_walfish_headshot_-_miriam-simma_walfish.jpg?itok=H0sryNG2) [### Paul Johnston ](/people/paul-johnston) PhD 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... ![headshot_-_paul_johnston.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ancientstudies/files/headshot_-_paul_johnston.png?itok=BfAGa-50)