Faculty

Current Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Fall 2023
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	264 Nicholson Hall 612-301-1300 pahearne@umn.edu	Judaism in Egypt during Ptolemaic and early Roman periods, Jewish-Greek literature, religious practice in Ptolemaic Egypt	Tuesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment (Zoom preferred).
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll Associate Professor Sundet Family Chair in New Testament and Christian Studies Department Chair	245A Nicholson Hall 612-624-6339 sahearne@umn.edu	Historical and critical study of the New Testament in relation to the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean world	Thursdays 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. or by appointment.
Ranjani Atur Assistant Professor	254 Nicholson Hall 612-625-3326 ratur@umn.edu	Comparative ancient religion, art and material culture of ancient Greek religion, ancient Judaism and Christianity	Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Spencer Cole Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	146F Nicholson Hall 612-625-5540 secole@umn.edu	Latin prose and Roman culture	Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Andrew Gallia Associate Professor	1041 Heller Hall 612-626-4268 abgallia@umn.edu	Roman history, Latin literature, Greek history, Roman archaeology and topography
Nita Krevans Professor	252 Nicholson Hall 612-625-3422 nkrevans@umn.edu	Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic Greek literature
Bernard M. Levinson Professor Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible	258 Nicholson Hall 612-625-4323 levinson@umn.edu	Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies; Second Temple Judaism; Bible and the Humanities	Tuesdays 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Hanne Loeland Levinson Associate Professor	150E Nicholson Hall 612-624-8341 loela001@umn.edu	Hebrew Bible, gender studies, metaphor theory, and biblical narratives
S. Douglas Olson Professor	146D Nicholson Hall 612-625-0513 sdolson@umn.edu	Greek poetry of the archaic and classical periods	Mondays and Tuesday 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment, Zoom meeting possible with advance notice.
Simone Oppen Assistant Professor	146E Nicholson Hall 612-301-1480 soppen@umn.edu	Ancient Greek drama, epigraphy, ancient Greek culture and literature	Mondays and Wednesday 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment, email to set up Zoom during office hours.
Eva von Dassow Associate Professor	150D Nicholson Hall 612-626-4787 vonda001@umn.edu	Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Akkadian and Ugaritic	Tuesdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Fall 2023
Jeanne Kilde Director of Programs in Religious Studies	245 Nicholson Hall 612-625-6393 jkilde@umn.edu	Religious Studies	Wednesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Charles McNamara Director of Greek and Latin Language Instruction Lecturer	266 Nicholson Hall mcnamarc@umn.edu	Greek and Latin language, intellectual history in the ancient world	Tuesdays 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Renana S. Schneller Director of Hebrew Language Instruction Senior Lecturer	150A Nicholson Hall 612-625-5353 schne068@umn.edu	Modern Hebrew language and literature, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic	By appointment only.
Tina Sherman Lecturer	256 Nicholson Hall 612-625-0751 sher0031@umn.edu		Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Emily West Lecturer	256 Nicholson Hall 612-625-0751 west0252@umn.edu	Latin	Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. or after class by appointment.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name	Contact	Specialty	Fall 2023 Office Hours
Noah Segal Research Specialist	262 Nicholson Hall 612-624-5631 nsegal@umn.edu	Ancient Roman social history	Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Richard Graff Associate Professor Writing Studies	221 Nolte Center 612-624-4985 graff013@umn.edu	Classical rhetoric, contemporary rhetorical theory
Theofanis Stavrou Professor History	1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 stavr001@umn.edu	Modern Greek studies
Andrea L. Sterk Associate Professor History	1110 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 sterk@umn.edu	Late Antiquity and Medieval Christianity
Peter S. Wells Professor Anthropology	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-6845 wells001@umn.edu	European prehistoric and Roman period archaeology

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact
John K. Evans Professor Emeritus History	evans002@umn.edu
Jackson Hershbel Professor Emeritus
William Melandra Professor Emeritus	malan001@umn.edu
Oliver Nicholson Professor Emeritus	opn@umn.edu
Jonathan Paradise Professor Emeritus	jparadis@umn.edu
Calvin J. Roetzel Professor Emeritus	roetz002@umn.edu
Melissa Harl Sellew Professor Emerita	sellew@umn.edu
George A. Sheets Professor Emeritus	gasheets@umn.edu