Faculty

Current Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2025
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	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
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.