CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT:
Professor Michael Peachin

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Professor David Sider

The Department of Classics offers graduate programs leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. In addition to the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (for which see the Admission section of this bulletin), the department participates in a consortial agreement with the City University of New York and Fordham University, which makes course offerings in classics at all three institutions available to all NYU classics graduate students.

Within New York University, the Department of Classics has close ties to the Center for Ancient Studies, the Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, the Institute of Fine Arts, the Program in Museum Studies, the Program in Religious Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Program in Poetics and Theory, and the Medieval and Renaissance Center. In addition, the journal Classical World is housed at NYU, and the Aquila Theatre Company, London/New York, is in permanent residence at the Center for Ancient Studies.

The University sponsors excavations at Abydos (Egypt), Aphrodisias (Turkey), Yeronisos Island (Cyprus), and Samothrace (Greece). The department owns collections of coins, inscriptions, and papyri; it maintains a small museum of ancient artifacts and a small library with computing resources. Students also have access to the extraordinary collections of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the American Numismatic Society, the Morgan Library, and the New York Public Library.

Faculty

Markus Asper, Assistant Professor. Dr. Habil. 2003, Mainz; Ph.D., M.A. 1994 (classics), Freiburg.
Hellenistic poetry; ancient Greek science, in particular, mathematics and medicine; the Greeks and the ancient Near Eastern cultures; old comedy and tragedy.

Adam H. Becker, Assistant Professor, Classics, Program in Religious Studies. Ph.D. 2004 (religion), Princeton; M.A. 2001 (Syriac studies), Oxford; M.A. 1997 (classics), New York; B.A. 1994 (classics), Columbia.
Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity; critical theories of religion; Syriac language and literature; reception of classical antiquity; religion in the modern Middle East; American religion.

Joy Connolly, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1997 (classical studies), Pennsylvania; B.A. 1991 (classics), Princeton.
Ancient rhetoric and political thought; Roman literature; feminist theory; classical tradition in early modern Europe and America.

David Levene, Professor. D.Phil. 1989 (classics), B.A. 1985 (classics and philosophy), Oxford.
Latin prose literature; Roman religion.

Michèle Lowrie, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1990 (classics), Harvard; B.A. 1984 (classics), Yale.
Latin literature; Augustan poetry; Greek and Latin lyric poetry.

Peter W. Meineck, Clinical Assistant Professor. B.A. 1989 (classics), University College London.
Production, reception, and history of ancient drama.

Phillip T. Mitsis, Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization; Professor, Classics, Program in Hellenic Studies. Ph.D. 1982 (classics), Cornell; B.A. 1974 (classics and philosophy), Williams College.
Ancient philosophy and its later reception.

Michael Peachin, Professor; Chair, Department of Classics. Ph.D. 1983 (ancient history), Columbia; B.A. 1976 (history), Indiana.
Roman imperial history; Roman law; Latin epigraphy.

Matthew S. Santirocco, Professor; Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science; Angelo J. Ranieri Director, Center for Ancient Studies. Ph.D. 1979, M.Phil. 1976, B.A. 1971 (classics), Columbia; M.A. 1977 (classics), B.A. 1973 (classics), Cambridge. Honorary degree: M.A. 1981, Pennsylvania.
Latin literature (especially Augustan poetry, literary patronage); Greek poetry (especially Hellenistic and tragedy); classical tradition.

David Sider, Professor. Ph.D. 1969 (Greek), M.A. 1963 (Greek), Columbia; B.A. 1961 (mathematics), City College of New York.
Greek poetry and philosophy.

FACULTY EMERITI

Larissa Bonfante, Lionel I. Casson, Mervin R. Dilts, Charles W. Dunmore, Philip Mayerson, Gregory M. Sifakis.