People

Alexander Riehle

ariehle@fas.harvard.edu

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

Katherine Rose

katherinerose@fas.harvard.edu

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...

Charles M. Stang

cstang@hds.harvard.edu

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

David Stern

dstern@fas.harvard.edu

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...

Richard F. Thomas

rthomas@fas.harvard.edu

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics

Italy, the West 300 CE–200 CE; 17th c. CE–21st c. CE reception Areas of Expertise: Hellenistic poetry; Roman Republican and Augustan literature; Roman historiography; reception

Jason Ur

jasonur@fas.harvard.edu

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

Miriam-Simma Walfish

walfish@g.harvard.edu

PhD candidate in Jewish history and culture

Babylonia; the land of Israel 200 - 600 CE Research topics: Mishnah; Talmud; gender; family; education

Naomi A. Weiss

nweiss@fas.harvard.edu

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

Leah Jane Whittington

lwhittington@fas.harvard.edu

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

Michael Witzel

witzel@fas.harvard.edu

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...

Bahadir Yildirim

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

James Zainaldin

zainaldin@g.harvard.edu

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