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Athens, Acropolis Museum; photo B. LaForse

Matthew Creighton, S.J., Senior Lecturer

E-mail: mcreigh@luc.edu

Gregory Dobrov, Associate Professor


Office: Crown Center 555
Phone: 773.508.3655
E-mail: gdobrov@luc.edu

Degrees: B.Th., Holy Trinity Seminary; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests: History and criticism of ancient theater, lyric poetry, Second Sophistic, Byzantine literature, critical theory, linguistics

Work in Progress: Two long-range projects: One on historical linguistics, the other on the theory and practice of satire

Selected Publications:

  • Beyond Aristophanes (Scholars Press 1995)
  • The City As Comedy (Chapel Hill, 1997)
  • Figures of Play (Oxford, 2001)
  • A Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy (Brill, forthcoming 2007) - including "Comedy and her Critics"
  • "Comedy and the Satyr-Chorus," Classical World 100.3 (2007) 251-65.
  • "The Sophist on His Craft: Art, Text, and Self-Construction in Lucian," Helios 29.2 (2002) 173-92.
  • "Mageiros Poietes: Language and Character in Antiphanes," in The Language of Greek Comedy, A. Willi, ed., 167-90 (Oxford 2002).

Recent and Upcoming Talks:

  • Response to Robert Wallace, Northwestern University, "Counterpoint Athens," inaugural lecture and roundtable for the 2008-2010 Andrew Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Series, Northwestern University, October 2008.
  • "The Satyrs of Cratinus," Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2008.
  • "The Eight Modes of Byzantine Song: a Living Fossil of Deep Antiquity," Medieval Studies Center, Loyola University Chicago, 5 November 2007.

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Laura Gawlinski, Assistant Professor


Office: Crown Center 563
Phone: 773.508.3657
E-mail: lgawlinski@luc.edu

Degrees: B.A., Randolph-Macon College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Academic Interests: Greek religion, epigraphy, archaeology and topography

Current Projects:

  • The Sacred Law of Andania: Sanctuary and Cult (book ms)
  • field supervisor at the excavations of the Athenian Agora (see www.attalos.com)

Representative Publications:

  • "'Fashioning' Initiates: Dress at the Mysteries." In Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World. edited by M. Heyn and C. Colburn, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • "The Athenian Calendar of Sacrifices: A New Fragment from the Athenian Agora." Hesperia 76 (2007): 37-55.

Recent and Forthcoming Papers:

  • "Finding the Sacred in Greek Sacred Law," What's Religious about Ancient Mediterranean Religions? Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, 28 June 2009
  • "Take My Wife, Please: Dangerous Comedy in Lysias I," APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2009
  • "Securing the Sacred: The Accessibility and Control of Attic Sanctuaries," CAMWS Annual Meeting, Tucson, 2008
  • "Property of the Gods: Managing Sacred Space in Ancient Greece," McMaster University, Keynote Address for Second Annual Undergraduate Classics Conference, 2008
  • "The Sanctuary of the Andanian Mysteries, Inside and Out," AIA/APA Annual Meeting Joint Panel, American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, San Diego, 2007

Pat Graham-Skoul, Adjunct Professor


Office: Crown Center 577
Phone: 773.508.3647
E-mail: pgraha1@luc.edu

Degrees: A.B., Loyola University Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Greek Lyric Poetry; Epics and Tragedy, Mythology
  • Ethics, Emotions, Rhetoric
  • Influences of Gender and Social Constructs

Online Course Descriptions and Class Syllabi:

Recent Activities:

  • Organized annual performance of the play in Latin, Exitium Caesaris
  • Organized Public Reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia
  • Organized Student Panel on Euripides' Medea
  • Served as Fellow in Loyola's Center for Ethics

Recent Papers:

  • "Internet Interaction: Student Projects and Teacher Web Pages," American Classical League, June 2000
  • "Taking Care of Family Members While Maintaining a Career: Limitations and Reciprocities," Classics and Feminism 3, May 2000
  • "Ancient Greek Women Poets and Women's Studies," panel presentation with undergraduate students, National Women's Studies Association, June 1999

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Zehavi Husser, INSTRUCTOR


Office: Crown Center 559
Phone: 773.508.3704
E-mail: zhusser@luc.edu

Degrees: B.A., M.A. (Ancient Art History), University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D. (Classical Archaeology), Princeton University

Academic Interests: Art & Archaeology of Early Imperial Italy; Roman religion; Latin epigraphy. I am currently revising my dissertation into a book manuscript. In my project, an examination of the role of the Roman god Jupiter in the worship of Italian communities serves as a case study to help elucidate the most significant ways public power structures exerted influence on Roman religion and to reintegrate the worship of non-elites into a fuller conception of Roman religion.

Publications:

  • "Signs," in Seeing Double: a Consideration of two Guercino Paintings, ed. Richard Spear (1999)

Recent Presentations:

  • "Finding the Other in Roman Priesthood," Oxford-Princeton Graduate Symposium on Ancient Priesthoods, Oxford, UK, 2005 
  • "Roman Lustration Rites and Sacred Space on the Column of Trajan," Oxford-Princeton Conference on Purity and Pollution, Oxford, UK, 2003

Jim Keenan, Professor


Office: Crown Center 573
Phone: 773.508.3665
E-mail: jkeenan@luc.edu

On leave F08

Degrees: A.B., College of the Holy Cross; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Academic Interests: Papyrology, Roman Law, Byzantine Egypt

Recent Honors and Responsibilities:

  • Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar by award of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, directing the American Society of Papyrologists' Summer Institute in Papyrology focusing on Byzantine and Coptic Egypt, 1-31 July 2009

Current Research:

  • "'Tormented Voices': P.Cair.Masp. I 67002," for the Acta of the Colloque International sur les Archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodite, Strasbourg, France, 8-10 December 2005.
  • Edition of BM 1075: A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite, with Roger S. Bagnall and Leslie S. B. MacCoull.
  • Excavating at Tebtunis, 1899-1902, supplementary volume to The Tebtunis Papyri, centered upon Crum notebook 67 in the Griffith Institute, Oxford, with Todd M. Hickey and Dominic Rathbone.
  • Co-editor, Law and Justice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest 332 BC-640 AD (Cambridge UP), with J. G. Manning and Uri Liftach-Firanko.
  • Translation of al-Nabulsi's Tarikh al-Fayyum, with Petra Sijpesteijn and Lennart Sundelin.

Representative Publications:

  • "Egyptian Villages in the 13th Century. Al-Nabulsi's Tarikh al-Fayyum," Les villages dans l'empire et le monde byzantins (Ve-XVe siecle), edd. Cecile Morrison and Jean-Pierre Sodini, 567-576, Realites byzantines 11 (Editions Lethielleux 2005).
  • "P.Lond. V 1876 desc.: Which Landowner?" with Todd M. Hickey, Chronique d'Egypte 79 (2004) 247-254.
  • Introductory chapter, with Ann E. Hanson and assistance from Todd M. Hickey, Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: An Archaeological and Historical Guide, ed. Roger S. Bagnall and Dominic W. Rathbone (BM Press and Getty Museum 2004).
  • "Deserted Villages: From the Ancient to the Medieval Fayyum," BASP 40 (2003) 119-39.

Recent and Upcoming Papers:

  • "Egypt's 'Special Place'," conference "At the Edges of Empire: Interpreting the Marginal Areas of the Roman Empire," The University of Chicago, Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World, February 17-19, 2006.
  • "'Tormented Voices': P.Cair.Masp. I 67002," Colloque International sur les Archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodite, organized by Jean-Luc Fournet, Strasbourg, France, December 8-10, 2005.
  • "A Year of Living Dangerously: Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago, 2000-2001," Jesuit Education and the Classics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, November 4-6, 2005.
  • "Papyrology: History, Institutions, Traditions," Center for the Tebtunis Papyri and the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, 27 September 2005.
  • "Landscape and Memory: al-Nabulsi's Tarikh al-Fayyum," panel on "(Con)textual Encounters in Egypt: Bridging the Disciplinary Divide between Archaeology and Papyrology," Annual Meeting of the APA/AIA, Boston, 7 January 2005.

Personal Interests: Golf, Guitar

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Brian Lavelle, Professor


Office: Crown Center 553
Phone: 773.508.3660
E-mail: blavell@luc.edu

Degrees: B.A., University of California San Diego; M.A., University of California Davis; Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Academic Interests: Archaic Greece: Archilochos and the 7th cent. BCE, Greek History and Archaeology; Greek Tyranny and Athenian Democracy, Popular Consciousness and Communication; Myth and History.

Recent Representative Publications:

    • "The Servant of Enyalios," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Paros and the Cyclades (forthcoming).
    • "Egypt, Ionia, and the epikouroi," in Jesuit Education and the Classics (forthcoming).
    • Review of J. H. Blok and A. P. H. M. Lardinois, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Leiden 2006) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2007.04.26).
    • Fame, Money and Power: the Rise of Peisistratos and 'Democratic' Tyranny at Athens (University of Michigan Press 2005).
    • Review of N. Luraghi, ed. The Craft of the Ancient Historian (Oxford, 2001), Classical Review (forthcoming).
    • "The Apollodoran Date for Archilochus," Classical Philology 97 (2002) 344-51.

    Current Scholarly Projects:

    • Peisistratos' successors and the end of tyranny at Athens (book ms).
    • Peisistratan colonization and Athenian imperialism.
    • Democracy, ancient and modern (book ms). 

    Personal Interests (not in order): Historical Fiction; topography and monuments of western Anatolia and the Aegean; any historical or ancient-themed movie (including dreadful ones like "Amazons and Gladiators"); biking; painting; roses; wind; family; Nancy Watkins.

    Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 559
    Phone: 773.508.3704
    E-mail: eliverm@luc.edu

    Degrees: B.A. Honors (Near Eastern Languages), National University of Ireland, Dublin; Graduate Research (Hebrew and Greek), Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., (Classics) Northwestern University

    Origins: From the San Francisco area and Napa Valley, California, currently living in Evanston - companioned by four-footed fur folk friends: Achilles, Odysseus, and [of course!] Penelope

    Personal Interests: "Connecting": Varieties of humans, languages, cultures; walking (anywhere - wilderness to back alleys); nature in any ilk, "All Creatures Great and Small," sparrow- and squirrel-feeding; weaving and stitching; threads and textiles, ancient and contemporary - including clothing in the ancient world; Baroque music and Broadway musicals; picnics; pots; star-watching; soup kitchens

    Jacqueline Long, Associate Professor and Chairman


    Office: Crown Center 579
    Phone: 773.508.3654
    E-mail: jlong1@luc.edu

    Degrees: A.B., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

    Academic Interests: Late Antique history & literature; Roman history & literature; women's history in the Classical world

    Representative Publications:

    • "'Kill All the Dogs!' or 'Apollonius Says!': Two Stories against Punitive Violence," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, ed. H. A. Drake, 225-33 (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing 2006).
    • "Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar," in Julius Caesar in Western Culture, ed. Maria Wyke, 62-82 (Oxford: Blackwell 2006).
    • Claudian's in Eutropium, or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
    • Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, with Alan Cameron and a contribution by Lee Sherry, University of California Press, 1993.

    Forthcoming and Recent Talks:

    • "Knowing Laughter in the Historia Augusta," panel on Late Latin Laughter organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group for the American Philological Association, Annual Meeting 2009
    • "The Problem with Scholarship (in the Historia Augusta)," symposium in honor of Alan Cameron, Columbia University, 6 December 2008.
    • "How to Read a Halo: Three (or More) Versions of Constantine's Vision," Shifting Frontiers VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, University of Colorado at Boulder, 23 March 2007

    Personal Interests: Food, cats and forms of mild athleticism in which I won't hurt myself too much.

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    John Makowski, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director


    Office: Crown Center 575
    Phone: 773.508.3656
    E-mail: jmakow1@luc.edu

    Degrees: B.A., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

    Academic Interests: Roman literature, especially Augustan and Imperial; Latin language; Myth and Literature; Classical World in Cinema.

    Scholarly Activity: I have published articles on Lucan, Vergil, Maecenas, and Ovid, and collaborated on a recently published study of Roman arithmetic. In June 2007 I gave a paper in Naples at the Symposium Cumanum entitled "From Phrygia to the Palatine: Vergil's Cybele" and will be presenting a reworking of the paper in Tucson at the meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle-West and South in April 2008.

    Teaching Interests: During Academic Year 2007-2008 I am teaching CLST 273 Classical Tragedy, CLST 276 World of Classical Rome, CLST 280 Romance Novel, LATN 388 Ovid's Metamorphoses and, in addition, the two semesters of Elementary Latin. In May of 2008 I will participate in the Summer Program of Loyola's Rome Center, where I will offer World of Classical Rome.

    Other: My interest in Seneca has led to an annual performance of his drama Thyestes performed by Furibunda Productions, the department's theater ensemble. This year's performance is scheduled for 31 October 2007. This fall I worked on the local committee for the Illinois Classical Conference hosted by Loyola and organized the Latin Mass, and recently I was invited to serve on the local committee of the American Philological Association, which will hold its meeting in Chicago in January 2008.

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    Ed Menes, Assistant Professor


    Office: Crown Center 555
    Phone: 773.508.3662
    E-mail: emenes@luc.edu

    Degrees: B.A., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

    Interests: Latin Lyric and Elegy, Linguistics

    Martin Miller, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 559
    Phone: 773.508.3704
    E-mail: mmiller4@luc.edu

    Degrees: Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago

    Interests: Roman History; Hellenistic History; Numismatics; Epigraphy 

    Recent Publications:

    • "A Preliminary Report on Recent Numismatic Finds at Argos," The Ancient World 37 (2006) 95-107
    • "A Lost Monument Containing a Summary of the Life of Proklos," The Ancient World 33 (2002) 71-77
    • "An Unpublished Funerary Inscription from Roman Macedonia," The Ancient World 33 (2002) 101-4

    James Quillin, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 559
    Phone: 773.508.3704
    E-mail: jquillin@luc.edu

    Degrees: Ph.D. (Classics; minor in Political Studies), Stanford University

    Interests: Research interests include democratic Athens, Republican Rome, and ancient oratory. Dr. Quillin is currently investigating the relationship between republicanism and imperialism in the ancient Mediterranean. His teaching interests include the political history of Greece, Rome, and the ancient Mediterranean, classical mythology, and ancient epic poetry. During the day, he teaches Latin, World History, and Government at Lake Forest Academy.

    Key Publications:

    • "Information and Empire: Domestic Fear Propaganda in Republican Rome, 200-146 b.c.e.," The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160 (2004) 765-785
    • "Achieving Amnesty after the Fall of the Thirty: The Role of Institutions, Events, and Ideas," Transactions of the American Philological Association 132 (2002) 71-107

    Kirk Shellko, INSTRUCTOR


    Office: Crown Center 559
    Phone: 773.508.3704
    E-mail: kshellk@luc.edu

    Degrees: M.A. (Philosophy), John Carroll University; M.A., Ph.D. (Classical Studies), Loyola University Chicago

    Interests: Fourth-century tragedy, Comedy and tragedy in Plato; Aristotle's Metaphysics. I am currently re-writing my dissertation, which concerns the implications of a fourth-century Rhesus, for publication. It includes possible trends in the fourth century, the main theme of Rhesus, and an epistemological interpretation of the tragedy. I am also researching comic and tragic elements in Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus and Phaedo.

    Courses Taught: CLST 271, 272, 273; GREK 262, 275; LATN 283.

    Presentations:

    • "Apollonian and Dionysian Imagery in Virgil"s Aeneid" delivered as guest at The Summer Aeneid Reading Project, affiliated with Barrington High School and the Barrington Area Public Library, 15 July 2007
    • "Comic Ethics: Strepsiades and the Comic Bane and Socrates the Comic Antidote," Classical Association of the Midwest and South, 6 April 2006
    • "The Intuitive Appeal of Myth," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 31 March 2005
    • "Partisan Inspiration: Literary Psychology and War Tactics in Caesar’s De Bello Civile," Classical Association of the Midwest and South - Southern Section, 5 November 2004
    • "Plato's Symposium and a Metaphysic of Seduction," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 15 April 2004
    • "Caesar's Engagement of his Readers," Illinois Classical Conference, 11 October 2003

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