The research interests and areas of expertise of the faculty are diverse. Listed here are several broad categories with specific areas of research for possible MA theses and major research papers. Potential supervisors who have interests in these areas are listed alphabetically in brackets.
Greek Literary Studies
- Comedy (Glazebrook, Rappold)
- Epic (Greene, Rappold)
- Historiography (Carter, Glazebrook)
- Mythology (Greene, Rappold)
- Oratory (Glazebrook)
- Tragedy (Greene, Rappold)
Latin Literary Studies
- Drama (Rappold)
- Elegy (Dolansky, Merriam)
- Epic (Merriam)
- Historiography (Carter, Dolansky, von Stackelberg)
- Letters (von Stackelberg)
- Pedagogy (Dolansky)
Greek History
- Ancient Sport (Carter)
- Archaic Greece (Carter, Glazebrook, Greene)
- Bronze Age (Smith)
- Classical Greece (Carter, Glazebrook, Greene)
- Economy and Trade (Greene)
- Ethnic Identity (Carter, Smith)
- Military (Carter)
- Political Theory (Glazebrook)
- Religion (Rappold)
- Slavery (Glazebrook)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Glazebrook)
Roman History
- Economy and Trade (Greene, von Stackelberg)
- Family, Children, and Childhood (Dolansky)
- Gardens, Landscape, and the Environment (von Stackelberg)
- Religion (Dolansky)
- Roman Provinces (Carter, Dolansky, von Stackelberg)
- Sport and Spectacles (Carter)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Dolansky, Merriam, von Stackelberg)
Greek Art and Archaeology
- Archaeological Ethics (Greene)
- Archaeological History Method and Theory (Smith)
- Archaic Greece (Greene)
- Architecture and sculpture (Greene, Smith)
- Attic Vase Painting (Glazebrook, Greene)
- Bronze Age (Smith)
- Ceramic Analysis (Greene, Smith)
- Classical Greece (Greene)
- Greek Colonization (Greene, Murray)
- Greek Epigraphy (Carter)
- Heritage and Museums (Greene, Murray, Smith)
- Island Archaeology (Greene, Murray, Smith)
- Maritime Archaeology (Greene)
- Migration and Displacement (Greene)
- Minoan and Mycenean (Smith)
- Mortuary Archaeology (Smith)
- Prehistory (Smith)
Roman Art and Archaeology
- Archaeology of Roman Religion (Murray)
- Domestic Art and Architecture (von Stackelberg)
- Etruscan Culture (Murray)
- Heritage and Museums (Greene, Murray, Smith)
- Landscape and the Environment (von Stackelberg)
- Late Antiquity (Carter, Dolansky, Greene)
- Latin Epigraphy (Carter, Dolansky)
- Maritime Archaeology (Greene)
- Topography of Rome (Carter, Murray)
- Women, Gender, and the Body (von Stackelberg)
