People
- Ellen Koven
- Administrative Assistant
- E-Mail: ekoven@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Ellen Koven has been in the Classics Department since 2000. Previously she worked in the Personnel Office and the Department of Economics. She has been a part of the Brooklyn College community since 1991.
- Dee Clayman
- Professor and Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics at the Graduate Center
- E-Mail: dclayman@gc.cuny.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Dee Clayman studied classics at Wellesley College (A.B. 1967) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1972). Her research interests include Greek poetry and the literature, philosophy and history of the Hellenistic period. She is the author of Callimachus’ Iambi (Leiden 1980) and more than 30 articles and reviews in her areas of interest. She is also the Director of the Database of Classical Bibliography, the digitized Année Philologique. She has received a Senior Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Delmas, Kress, Mellon, Getty, Gould and Loeb Classical Library foundations.
- Roger Dunkle
- Professor (Retired)
- E-Mail: rdunkle@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Roger Dunkle has created helpful web resources for students. To access these materials, visit the links page.
- Hardy Hansen
- Professor
- E-Mail: hhansen@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Website
Hardy Hansen studied at Princeton (A.B. 1963) and Harvard (Ph.D. 1969). His special interest is the Greek language and he is the Director of the Latin/Greek Institute jointly sponsored by Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where for the past thirty years he has spent his summers teaching Greek.
- Danielle Kellogg
- Assistant Professor
- E-Mail: dkellogg@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Danielle Kellogg studied Classics at Franklin and Marshall College (A.B. 1999) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.A. 2001; Ph.D. 2005). Her research interests are in the areas of Greek political and constitutional history, epigraphy, and topography of the Greek countryside. She is the author of several articles and reviews on Greek history and epigraphy.
- James Pletcher
- Lecturer
- E-Mail: pletcherjames@netscape.net
- Curriculum Vitae
- Gail Smith
- Associate Professor
- E-Mail: gsmith@gc.cuny.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
- Philip Thibodeau
- Assistant Professor
- E-Mail: pthibodeau@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Philip Thibodeau studied Classics at Yale University (B.A. 1993) and at Brown University (Ph.D. 1999). His research interests lie in the areas of Latin poetry, especially Vergil, and ancient science. He is the author of numerous articles in those fields and is also co-editor with H. Haskell of Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C. J. Putnam on the Occasion of his Seventieth-Birthday (Afton Press, 2003). He is currently working on a monograph on Vergil’s Georgics. He has been the recipient of a full-year research fellowship from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
- John B. Van Sickle
- Professor (on sabbatical leave 2007-2008)
- E-Mail: jvsickle@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Website
John B. Van Sickle studied at Harvard (A. B. 1958, Ph.D. 1966) and Illinois (M.A. 1959), focusing early on Virgil – the prophetic and public voice in his pastoral poetry (so-called eclogues or Book of Bucolics) – hence pastoral before and after Virgil, back to biblical stories of inspired shepherds right down through Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth to Robert Frost and Derek Walcott. Particular emphasis on the force of word origins and metaphor, which also enriches his teaching in the Core Curriculum and courses on Greek and Latin Elements in English as well as his lectures on botanical names. Published The Design of Virgil’s Bucolics (Duckworth 2004) and many articles and reviews.
- Craig Williams
- Professor and Department Chair
- E-Mail: craigw@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Craig Williams studied Classics at Yale University (BA 1986, Ph.D. 1992). His research interests are in the areas of Latin literature, especially epigram; gender and sexuality in classical antiquity; and friendship in ancient Rome. He is the author of Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (Oxford University Press 1999) and Martial, Epigrams: Book Two. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary (Oxford University Press 2004) as well as a number of articles on Latin poetry. He has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Ethyle Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Bonn, Germany, and currently holds a Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship.
- Donna Wilson
- Associate Professor; Dean for Undergraduate Studies
- E-Mail: dwilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Website
- Liv Yarrow
- Associate Professor; Deputy Chair and Student Advisor
- E-Mail: yarrow@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Liv Yarrow studied Classics at the George Washington University (BA 1998) and at the University of Oxford (MPhil 2000, DPhil 2002). Her research interests are in the areas of Roman and Hellenistic History, especially historiography and numismatics. She is the author of Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule (Oxford University Press 2006) and a contributor to the Roman Provincial Coinage IV Project: The Antonine Period