Faculty

Current Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2026
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll Associate Professor	264 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-301-1300 [email protected]	Judaism in Egypt during Ptolemaic and early Roman periods, Jewish-Greek literature, religious practice in Ptolemaic Egypt	In person Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment, by Zoom by request.
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll 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
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	Mondays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Spencer Cole Associate Professor	146F 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5540 [email protected]	Latin prose and Roman culture	Tuesdays 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment.
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	Wednesdays 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Hanne Loeland Levinson Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	150E 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-624-8341 [email protected]	Hebrew Bible, gender studies, metaphor studies, death and dying, biblical narratives and biblical reception.
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	Thursdays 11:00 a.m. (immediately after class) - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Eva von Dassow Professor	150D 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-4787 [email protected]	Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Akkadian and Ugaritic	Tuesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2026
Jeffrey Cross Lecturer	146C 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple Judaism, Hellenistic cultural and intellectual history, Hebrew Bible, manuscript studies	Mondays and Tuesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment.
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.
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	Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. or by appointment.
Emily West Lecturer	256 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	By appointment only.

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.