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 (Rappold)
- Epic (Greene, Nickel, Rappold)
- Historiography (Carter)
- Lyric poetry (Greene, Nickel)
- Oratory (Glazebrook, Nickel)
- Tragedy (Greene, Nickel, Rappold)
Latin Literary Studies
- Drama (Rappold)
- Elegy (Dolansky, Merriam)
- Epic (Merriam)
- Historiography (Carter, Dolansky, von Stackelberg)
- Letters (von Stackelberg)
Greek History
- Age of Pericles (Glazebrook, Greene)
- Archaic Greece (Carter, Glazebrook, Greene)
- Economy and Trade (Greene)
- Ethnic Identity (Carter, Smith)
- Military (Carter)
- Political Theory (Glazebrook)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Glazebrook)
- Religion (Rappold)
Roman History
- Ancient Sport (Carter)
- Economy and Trade (Greene, von Stackelberg)
- Family, Children, and Childhood (Dolansky)
- Gardens, Landscape, and the Environment (von Stackelberg)
- Religion (Dolansky)
- Rome’s Eastern Provinces (Carter)
- Spectacles and Entertainment (Carter)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Dolansky, Merriam, von Stackelberg)
Greek Art and Archaeology
- Archaeological Ethics (Greene)
- Archaeological Method and Theory (Smith)
- Archaic Greece (Greene)
- Attic Vase Painting (Greene)
- Bronze Age (Smith)
- Ceramic Analysis (Smith)
- Classical Greece (Greene)
- Greek Colonization (Greene, Murray)
- Greek Epigraphy (Carter)
- Maritime Archaeology (Greene)
- Mortuary Archaeology (Smith)
Roman Art and Archaeology
- Archaeology of Roman Religion (Murray)
- Domestic Art and Architecture (von Stackelberg)
- Etruscan Culture (Murray)
- Landscape and the Environment (von Stackelberg)
- Latin Epigraphy (Carter, Dolansky)
- Maritime Archaeology (Greene)
- Topography of Rome (Carter, Murray)
- Women, Gender, and the Body (von Stackelberg)
