Faculty

Current Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2023
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll Associate Professor	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	On leave spring 2023
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll Associate Professor Sundet Family Chair in New Testament and Christian Studies Department Chair Interim Director of Graduate Studies	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	By appointment only.
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. - 1:00 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
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	By appointment and by Zoom TBA
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	Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment in 258 Nicholson Hall or via Zoom.
Hanne Loeland Levinson Associate Professor	150E Nicholson Hall 612-624-8341 loela001@umn.edu	Hebrew Bible, gender studies, metaphor theory, and biblical narratives	By appointment only in-person or via Zoom.
S. Douglas Olson Professor	146D Nicholson Hall 612-625-0513 sdolson@umn.edu	Greek poetry of the archaic and classical periods	On leave Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Simone Oppen Assistant Professor	146E Nicholson Hall 612-301-1480 soppen@umn.edu	Ancient Greek drama, epigraphy, ancient Greek culture and literature	By appointment only, please email.
Eva von Dassow Associate Professor	150D Nicholson Hall 612-626-4787 vonda001@umn.edu	Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Akkadian and Ugaritic	On leave Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Fall 2022
Jeanne Kilde Director of Programs in Religious Studies	245 Nicholson Hall 612-625-6393 jkilde@umn.edu	Religious Studies	Tuesdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in 146C Nicholson Hall, or by appointment in person or on Zoom.
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 - 4:30 p.m., 266 Nicholson Hall 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.
Anthony Thomas Lecturer	256 Nicholson Hall 612-625-0751 thom5398@umn.edu		By appointment only.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name	Contact	Specialty
Noah Segal Research Specialist	262 Nicholson Hall 612-624-5631 nsegal@umn.edu	Ancient Roman social history

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	Specialty
Elizabeth S. Belfiore Professor Emerita	esb@umn.edu	Ancient philosophy, Greek tragedy, Greek literature
Thomas S. Clayton Regents' Professor Emeritus English	tsc@umn.edu	Drama and theater, Shakespeare, classical tradition
John K. Evans Professor Emeritus History	evans002@umn.edu	Roman history
Jackson Hershbel Professor Emeritus		Greek Literature
William Melandra Professor Emeritus	malan001@umn.edu	Indo-Iranian philology and religion
Oliver Nicholson Professor Emeritus	opn@umn.edu	Late antiquity, patristics, later Latin
Jonathan Paradise Professor Emeritus	jparadis@umn.edu	Hebrew Bible, cuneiform
Calvin J. Roetzel Professor Emeritus	roetz002@umn.edu	Pauline theology
Melissa Harl Sellew Professor Emerita	sellew@umn.edu	Early Christian studies, gospel literature, Coptic
George A. Sheets Professor Emeritus	gasheets@umn.edu	Historical linguistics, Latin literature, legal history