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Lee Ann Riccardi holds a B.A.(Ohio State University), M.A. (Ohio State University), and Ph.D.(Boston University) in Art History. In her graduate work, she concentrated on Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Before coming to TCNJ, she taught art history as a Visiting Professor at Smith College and Boston University. She has also worked on several archaeological projects in Greece, including Isthmia, Nikopolis, and the Athenian Agora, where she was a staff member from 1994-1998. Her research involves the study of the portraits and propaganda of Roman emperors and their families, particularly as depicted in the Greek world. She has written several articles on different aspects of this topic, and is currently working on a manuscript about the significance and appearance of various wreaths and crowns worn by the rulers of the Roman Empire. For the Classical Studies program, she teaches courses on Greek and Roman art history and archaeology, including Ancient and Classical Art, Cities and Sanctuaries of Greece and Rome, and Representations of Women in Ancient Art. |
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Glenn Steinberg holds a B.A. (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) and M.A. and Ph.D. (Indiana University) in English with a specialization in medieval literature. His research focuses on the reception of classical and medieval texts in England during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance with a particular emphasis on the evolving reputations of Virgil, Dante, and Chaucer from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. He has published essays in Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, The Chaucer Review, Chung Wai Literary Monthly, English Literary Renaissance, the Modern Language Association's Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems (ed. Tison Pugh and Angela Weisl), and Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (ed. Theresa Krier). He taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, for four years before coming to The College of New Jersey in 1998. For the Classical Studies program, he teaches courses on Classical Traditions and Vergil and Dante. |
 Holly Haynes,Associate Professor of Classical Studies, 109 Bliss Hall, Ext. 2349, haynes@tcnj.edu Holly Haynes previously taught at Dartmouth College and New York University. She took her PhD. in Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. Her first book, The History of Make-Believe: Tacitus on Imperial Rome, was published by the University of California Press in 2003. Professor Haynes specializes in the politics and literature of the early Roman Empire, with a particular interest in historiography. Her current projects include pieces on memory and trauma in the post-Domitianic period and on Petronius' Satyricon. |
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John Karras did his undergraduate and graduate work at Rutgers University, and has been at TCNJ for over 40 years. He was chair of the History Department for many years. He is a specialist in Byzantine history, and teaches courses in the History Department and in the College Honors Program on Ancient Greece, Rome, and the late ancient world. |
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John holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts (from St. John's College, Annapolis, MD) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rutgers University. John has previously taught at Temple University, the College of William & Mary, and the California State University at San Bernardino. He arrived at TCNJ in 2003. John's research interests are ancient philosophy, and he has special interests in both Aristotle's philosophy of mind and early Greek cosmology. John's work has been published in a number of highly regarded journals, including Classical Quarterly, Ancient Philosophy, Hermathena, Mind, Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron, and Archiv für geschichte der Philosophie. John has participated in an N.E.H. seminar on Aristotle's philosophy of language. He is currently pursuing research on Aristotle's account of imagination and on the relation between Plato's account of cognition in the Timaeus and earlier discussions of cognition in the Hippocratic corpus. For the Classical Studies Program, John teaches Ancient Philosophy, Seminar on Aristotle, and Seminar on Plato. |
Adjunct Faculty |
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Alan Bowen has received a B.A. (Hon.), M.A., and Ph.D., all in philosophy, from the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton). He has edited Selected Papers of F. M. Cornford (New York, 1987), Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece (New York, 1991), and Astronomy and Astrology from the Babylonians to Kepler (Aarhus, 2003), and is the author of numerous articles on the history and philosophy of the exact sciences in antiquity. His primary interests are in the history of Greco-Latin astronomy and harmonic science. In 1983-84 he was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and has received several research grants including two from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986, 1988-91). He has published Cleomedes’ Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens with Introduction and Commentary with Robert B. Todd (Berkeley, 2004), and is currently translating other treatises in Hellenistic astronomy as well as editing a collection of papers on Aristotle’s De caelo. He is also the founding editor of Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (http://www.ircps.org/publications/aestimatio/aestimatio.htm). He has taught at Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh. At TCNJ, he has taught the Greek and Latin languages. |
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Peter Gruen received his B.A. from Rutgers and his M.A. (in Greek) and Ph.D. (in Classical Philology) from Columbia. He has been a Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and done graduate work in the Drama Department of Carnegie-Mellon. His early research was in Greek epic poetry and he has published on the Roman epic poet, Vergil. Before coming to The College of New Jersey, he was on the faculty at Manhattanville College, where he was the Chair of the Classics Department. He also taught at Rutgers and The City University of New York. He is a playwright. His plays have been produced in Pittsburgh and New York, and For Anne was a winner in the Off-Off Broadway Play Festival and was published by Samuel French. He has also translated poetry from Greek and Latin and taught foreign languages (Latin, German, French and Spanish) to school children in elementary, middle and high schools in New Jersey. He is now working on two new plays, Cliff Notes and Penelope Remembers, and on translations from Greek and Latin. |
 Stamatina Mastorakou,Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, 242 Bliss Hall, Ext. 2962, mastorak@tcnj.edu Stamatina Mastorakou holds an MA and a BA on the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Athens, Greece. She completed her PhD thesis: “Hellenistic Popular Astronomy: Aratus’ Phaenomena” at Imperial College, University of London, UK. She was a visiting scholar at the Classics Department of New York University and she is currently a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Research of Classical Philosophy and Science, Princeton, NJ. Her research interests include ancient astronomy and material culture from antiquity. |
 Colin Pilney,Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, 242 Bliss Hall, Ext. 2962, pilney@tcnj.edu Colin Pilney received his B.A. from Macalester College, M.A. from Tufts, and Ph.D. from Fordham (all in Classical Philology). His interests include Neo-Latin and Roman topography. Before coming to The College of New Jersey, he taught as an adjunct at Fordham, part-time at New York University, and full-time at the University of Delaware. He continues to edit the Database of Classical Bibliography based at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the director of the University of Delaware's winter session in Greece. |
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Lee Ann Riccardi,
Glenn
A. Steinberg,
John
P. Karras,
John E. Sisko,
Alan
C. Bowen,
Peter
Gruen,