Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Jorge Wong Medina, assistant professor of classics presented “The Formulaic Template and Linguistic Innovation in Homer” at the Formulaic Language in Historical Linguistics: Data, Methods, Tools, and Theory conference at the Finnish House of Learned Societies.

Jorge Wong Medina, assistant professor of classics presented "Homeric Diectasis" at the 11th International Colloquium of Ancient Greek Linguistics.

Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, Lauren Henley, assistant professor of leadership studies, and Beth Zizzamia, Special Analysis Lab GIS operations manager, along with students Sydney Cameron, ’26, Alex Harry, ’26, Angela Nguyen, ’27, and Katherine Stobie, ’26, presented “Students Collaborating with Community in Richmond’s Black Cemeteries” at the IMPACT National Conference.

Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, published a new translation of Ovid's Dido from the Heroides in Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories from the Amazons to Cleopatra.

Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, presented "Repurposed furniture-top markers at African American cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia" at the Association for Gravestone Studies annual conference.

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. 

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.

Dieter Gunkel, associate professor of historical linguistics, published “Musical Evidence for Low Boundary Tones in Ancient Greek” in Greek and Roman Musical Studies.

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.

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.

Dieter Gunkel was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of historical linguistics. Dr. Gunkel's research specializes in Indo-European linguistics. 

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.