The Department of Classical Studies offers students the opportunity to study the languages, cultures, and histories of ancient Greece and Rome.
Faculty Highlights
- Zimmerman Damer Published
Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender, & sexuality studies, published “Religious Authority and Classical Reception in Baroque Rome: Martha Marchina’s Musa Posthuma and Feminist Epistemologies of Care” in Believing Ancient Women Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome.
- Zimmermann Damer Published
Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender & sexuality studies, published “What is a Future for Classics” in the American Book Review.
- Gunkel Published
Dieter Gunkel, associate professor of historical linguistics, published “Musical Evidence for Low Boundary Tones in Ancient Greek” in Greek and Roman Musical Studies.
- Motz Published
Chris Motz, visiting assistant professor of classical studies, published four chapters in "The Porta Stabia Neighborhood at Pompeii Volume 1: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Space" by Oxford University Press.
- Baughan Published
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology and art history, published the article "Forms and Functions of Beds and Couches in Etruscan and Anatolian Tombs" in a book she co-edited, Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange.
- Gunkel Awarded Tenure & Promotion
Dieter Gunkel was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of historical linguistics. Dr. Gunkel's research specializes in Indo-European linguistics.
- Gunkel Published
Dieter Gunkel, assistant professor of historical linguistics, published, “The First Person Singular of the Athematic Middle Optative in Vedic and Indo-Iranian” in the Journal of the American Oriental Society.
- Gunkel Published
Dieter Gunkel, assistant professor of historical linguistics, was invited to two lectures this spring. At the University of Vienna he presented, “Evidence for and Against Stress Regulation in Tocharian Meter.” He presented, “Rigvedic *aśiya, *ī́śiya, *rāsiya and the Development of PIE *-ih1-h2e into Indo-Iranian” at Cornell University.
- Baughan Awarded
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology and art history, was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Grant for Research And Publication in Classical Art And Architecture by the Archaeological Institute of America, for the co-edited book (with Lisa C. Pieraccini, UC Berkeley), Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
- Stevenson Published
Walter Stevenson, associate professor of Classical Studies, published the book, The Origins of Roman Christian Diplomacy.
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Department of Classical Studies
University of Richmond
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106 UR Drive
Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8736
Fax: (804) 287-6053
Department Chair: Dr. Walter Stevenson
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