Faculty

Current Faculty

Name Contact Specialty Office Hours Spring 2025
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
264 216 Pillsbury Drive
Judaism in Egypt during Ptolemaic and early Roman periods, Jewish-Greek literature, religious practice in Ptolemaic Egypt  
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll
Associate Professor
Sundet Family Chair in New Testament and Christian Studies
Department Chair
245A 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-624-6339
[email protected]
Historical and critical study of the New Testament in relation to the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean world Tuesdays 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Ranjani Atur
Assistant Professor

254 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-625-3326
[email protected]

 

Comparative ancient religion, art and material culture of ancient Greek religion, ancient Judaism and Christianity By appointment only via Zoom.
Spencer Cole
Associate Professor
 
146F 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-625-5540
[email protected]
Latin prose and Roman culture  
Andrew Gallia
Associate Professor
1041 Heller Hall
612-626-4268
[email protected]
Roman history, Latin literature, Greek history, Roman archaeology and topography Mondays 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Bernard M. Levinson
Professor
Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible
258 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-625-4323
[email protected]
Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies; Second Temple Judaism; Bible and the Humanities On Sabbatical Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
Hanne Loeland Levinson
Associate Professor
150E 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
Hebrew Bible, gender studies, metaphor theory, and biblical narratives Mondays 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. or by appointment in person or via Zoom.
S. Douglas Olson
Professor
146D 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-625-0513
[email protected]
Greek poetry of the archaic and classical periods  
Simone Oppen
Assistant Professor
146E 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-301-1480
[email protected]
Ancient Greek drama, epigraphy, ancient Greek culture and literature On research leave Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
Eva von Dassow
Professor
150D 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-626-4787
[email protected]
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Akkadian and Ugaritic  

Lecturers

Name Contact Specialty Office Hours Spring 2025
Charles McNamara
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Greek and Latin Language Instruction
Lecturer
266 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
Greek and Latin language, intellectual history in the ancient world Tuesdays 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Melissa Harl Sellew
Professor Emerita
Lecturer
260 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
  Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Dan Schindler
Lecturer
146C 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
   
Renana S. Schneller
Director of Hebrew Language Instruction
Senior Lecturer
150A 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
Modern Hebrew language and literature, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic By appointment only.
Noah Segal
Director of the Future of the Past
Lecturer
262 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-624-5631
[email protected]
Ancient Roman social history  
Emily West
Lecturer
256 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
 
  Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in person or by appointment via Zoom.

Affiliate Faculty

Name Contact Specialty
Richard Graff
Associate Professor
Writing Studies
221 Nolte Center
612-624-4985
[email protected]
Classical rhetoric, contemporary rhetorical theory
Theofanis Stavrou
Professor
History
1224 Heller Hall
612-624-5734
[email protected]
Modern Greek studies
Andrea L. Sterk
Associate Professor
History
1110 Heller Hall
612-624-2800
[email protected]
Late Antiquity and Medieval Christianity
Peter S. Wells
Professor
Anthropology
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center
612-624-6845
[email protected]
European prehistoric and Roman period archaeology

Emeriti Faculty

Name Contact
John K. Evans
Professor Emeritus
History
[email protected] 
Jackson Hershbell
Professor Emeritus
 
Nita Krevans
Professor Emerita
[email protected]
William Malandra
Professor Emeritus
[email protected]
Oliver Nicholson
Professor Emeritus
[email protected]
Jonathan Paradise
Professor Emeritus
[email protected]
Calvin J. Roetzel
Professor Emeritus
[email protected]
Melissa Harl Sellew
Professor Emerita
[email protected]
George A. Sheets
Professor Emeritus
[email protected]

216 Pillsbury Drive is formerly Nicholson Hall.