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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
USC College Department of Classics
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Faculty

Anthony Boyle
Professor of Classics

Research Specialities: Roman Literature and Culture
Email: aboyle@usc.edu
Office: THH 229M
Phone: (213)740-3676
James Collins II
Assistant Professor of Classics

Email: jhcollin@usc.edu
Office: THH 256N
Phone: (213)821-2375
Vincent Farenga
Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature

Research Specialities: Classics: (1) archaic and classical Greek civilization (literature, politics, philosophy); (2) justice in ancient Greece; (3) Athenian democracy; Greek tyranny; (4) the self (soul, mind) in Greek society and thought; (5) citizenship and leadership in ancient Greece and the Roman Republic; (6) Alexander the Great. Comparative Literature: (1) injustice in contemporary societies; (2) models of justice in political philosophy; (3) the theory of recognition; (4) human rights theory; (5) autobiography, memoir, and testimonial literature; (6) theories of the self; (7) theories of citizenship.
Email: farenga@usc.edu
Office: THH 256R
Phone: (213)740-0106
Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Assistant Professor of Classics

Email:
Office: THH 256K
Phone: (213)740-3683
Thomas Habinek
Professor of Classics

Research Specialities: Latin literature, Roman Cultural History, Classical Rhetoric, Theories of Imitation
Email: habinek@usc.edu
Office: THH 256
Phone: (213)821-5303
Susan Lape
Professor of Classics

Research Specialities: Greek Drama, Law, Cultural History, Athenian Democracy
Email: lape@usc.edu
Office: THH 224
Phone: (213)740-3676
Daniel Richter
Associate Professor of Classics

Research Specialities: Literature and Cultural History of the Hellenistic and Early Roman Empires
Email: drichter@usc.edu
Office: THH 256
Phone: (213)740-3676
William Thalmann
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

Research Specialities: Greek Drama and Epic Poetry
Email: thalmann@usc.edu
Office: THH 256P
Phone: (213)740-0268
Kevin Van Bladel
Associate Professor of Classics

Research Specialities: Graeco-Arabic Studies, Late Antiquity, Ancient Iran
Email: vanblade@usc.edu
Office: THH 276
Phone: (213)821-2375
Ann Marie Yasin
Associate Professor of Classics and Art History

Research Specialities: Roman, Late Roman and Early Byzantine Art and Architecture
Email: yasin@usc.edu
Office: THH 256
Phone: (213)740-3676

 

Associated Faculty

Lisa Bitel
Professor of History and Gender Studies

Research Specialties: Social, Cultural, and Religious History of Medieval Europe
Email: bitel@usc.edu
Office: SOS 282
Phone: (213)821-2150
Sheila Briggs
Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies

Research Specialties: Feminist Theology, Particularly Nineteenth and Twentieth Century German Theology, Early Christianity, Theories of History and Modern Liberation Movements
Email: sbriggs@usc.edu
Office: THH 328H
Phone: (213)740-0267

Richard Caldwell
Professor Emeritus of Classics

Jane Cody
Professor Emerita of Classics



Email: jmcody@college.usc.edu
Office: CAS 200
Phone: (213)740-8555
Joseph Dane
Professor of English

Research Specialties: Medieval Literature, Bibliography and the History of Printing
Email: dane@usc.edu
Office: THH 420
Phone: (213)740-3750
Lynn Swartz Dodd
Curator for the Archaeological Research Collection

Email: swartz@usc.edu
Office: THH B9
Phone: (213)740-0266
Jason Glenn
Associate Professor of History

Research Specialties: Political, Religious, and Intellectual Culture of the Early Middle Ages
Email: jkglenn@usc.edu
Office: SOS 163
Phone: (213)740-1664
Ron Hock
Professor of Religion

Research Specialties: Gospel studies, Pauline studies, the Social and Intellectual History of the Early Roman Empire, and the History of New Testament Scholarship
Email: hock@usc.edu
Office: THH 341
Phone: (213)740-0279

Heather James
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Specialties: Literature and culture of the English Renaissance, Latin literature, Italian Renaissance literature and Classical Imitation

Email: hjames@usc.edu

Office: THH 420
Phone: (213)740-3740

Frank Lewis
Professor of Philosophy

Research Specialties: Greek Philosophy. Aristotle and Plato
Email: flewis@rcf.usc.edu
Office: MHP 113
Phone: (213)740-5172
John Pollini
Professor of Art History and History

Research Specialties: Classical Art and Archaeology, Ancient History, Classical Pphilology, Epigraphy and Numismatics
Email: pollini@usc.edu
Office: VKC 351
Phone: (213)740-4554
David Rollo
Associate Professor of English

Research Specialties: Medieval Literature and Culture
Email: rollo@usc.edu
Office: THH 420
Phone: (213)740-3729
Bruce Zuckerman
Myron and Marian Casden Director and Professor of Religion and Linguistics

Research Specialties: Ancient Near East, Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures, and the Archaeology of the Near East and the Greco-Roman World
Email: bzuckerm@usc.edu
Office: ACB 130
Phone: (213)740-0271

Adjunct, Lecturer and Visiting Faculty

 

Claudia Moatti
Professor of the Practice of Classics and Law

Research Specialities: Roman History, Roman Administration, Human Mobility, Legal concept of libertas, Ancient Political thought
Email: moatti@usc.edu
Office: THH 274
Phone: (213)821-2374

 

Department of Classics
THH 256
University of Southern CA
Los Angeles, CA
90089-0352

Phone: (213) 740-3676
Fax: (213) 740-7360
classics@college.usc.edu