Faculty

Ali Humayun Akhtar

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Robert W. Allison

Professor Emeritus of Religion and Classical and Medieval Studies

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

Grace A. Gillies

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

ancient Greek and Roman culture, Ancient slavery, ancient street culture, ancient theories of disgust, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender, history, memory studies, Roman comedy and theater, Roman invective, Roman satire, urban theory, women and gender studies

Lisa Maurizio

Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

Dolores O’Higgins

Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

18th century Irish history, classical reception, Greek literature, Greek religion, Greek religion, Homer, women in classical antiquity

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa

Henry J. Walker

Senior Lecturer in Classical and Medieval Studies

ancient languages and literatures, ancient myth and society, how literature and myth reflect social and religious institutions in ancient Greece and India