People

Margaret Andrews

margaretandrews@fas.harvard.edu

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

Gojko Barjamovic

barjamovic@fas.harvard.edu

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

Giovanni Battista Bazzana

gbazzana@hds.harvard.edu

Professor of New Testament

Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity Areas of Expertise: Synoptic Gospels and apocalyptic literature; papyrology: New Testament studies

Natasha Bershadsky

nbershadsky@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on the Classics

Greece Archaic and Classical periods Areas of Expertise: archaic warfare; archaic lyric and epic; Anatolian, Ugaritic, and Biblical studies

Chance Bonar

chancebonar@g.harvard.edu

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

Giorgia Bove

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

Shaye J.D. Cohen

scohen@fas.harvard.edu

Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy

Judaea and the Near East Roman and Byzantine periods (late antiquity) Areas of Expertise: history of Judaism; Judaism and Hellenism; Josephus; rabbinic law and literature

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

Amaia Cook

amaiacook@hds.harvard.edu

Master of divinity candidate

Greco-Roman world Roman Period, 1st Century CE Research topics: early Christianity, Pauline epistles, synoptic Gospels,

Joe Currie

joecurrie@g.harvard.edu

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

Andrew Deloucas

adeloucas@g.harvard.edu

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

Emma Dench

dench@fas.harvard.edu

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