The Department of Classics
Queen's UniversityFaculty & Research Interests
George Bevan
Assistant ProfessorOffice: 510 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 78847
Email: bevan@queensu.ca
Research interests: Late Antiquity, Syriac, Papyrology
Fabio Colivicchi
Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
Office: 502 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74821
Email: colivicf@queensu.ca
Research interests: Early Iron Age Italy; Greek Colonies; Etruscans; pre-Roman cultures of South Italy.
Website: Caere Excavation Project, Italy
Michael S. Cummings
Assistant Professor
Office: 511 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74822
Email: cummings@queensu.ca
Research interests: Latin and Greek poetry, in particular the Augustan poets, Greek amatory epigram, early Christian poetry, and mediaeval Latin lyric; love in the ancient world and the philosophy of love; myth, particularly ancient mythography.
Margaret Erskine
Assistant Professor
Office: 114 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 78571
Email: erskinem@queensu.ca
Research interests: Latin Language and Literature; Roman History; Textual Criticism
Caroline L. Falkner
Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
Office: 509 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 78834
Email: falknerc@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek history and historiography, family studies, Sparta
Anne M. Foley
Associate Professor, Department Head
Office: 506 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74826
Email: foleya@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek archaeology (Bronze Age to Archaic), Greek history
Richard P. H. Greenfield
Professor
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 77507
Email: greenfie@queensu.ca
Research interests: Late Antiquity and Middle & Late Byzantine history.
R. Drew Griffith
Professor and Graduate Chair
Office: 513 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74823
Email: griffitd@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek literature, comparative literature, and literary criticism
Bernard J. Kavanagh
Associate ProfessorOffice: 514 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74825
Email: bjk2@queensu.ca
Research interests: Roman history, Early Imperial Senators, Roman Gaul, Latin Epigraphy.
Daryn Lehoux
Professor
Office: 503 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74820
Email: lehoux@queensu.ca
Research interests: Ancient science and epistemology, especially astronomy, astrology, mathematics, and medicine. Ancient philosophy
M. Barbara Reeves
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Office: 512 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74824
Email: reevesb@queensu.ca
Research interests: Roman archaeology, history of archaeology, Roman Near East, cultural relations between Roman soldiers and indigenous peoples, ancient bath houses and bathing technology, the religious practices of Roman soldiers
Website: Humayma Excavation Project, Jordan
William Sirman
Office: 509 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 78834
Email: sirman@queensu.ca
Cristiana Zaccagnino
Assistant Professor
Office: 114 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 77843
Email: zaccagn@queensu.ca
Research interests: Magna Graecia, Greek archaeology, ancient bronzes, classical tradition, field archaeology
Professors Emeriti
Dietmar K. Hagel
Speciality: Greek Archaeology
Richard Hope-Simpson
Speciality: Greek History, Archaeology
Anthony J. Marshall
Speciality: Roman HistoryFrederic M. Schroeder
Email: schroedr@queensu.caResearch interests: Greek philosophy, Plato and Neoplatonism, Patristics
Queen's / Trent Adjunct Professors
The Queen's/Trent agreement provides the opportunity to call on the expertise of a professor from Trent University to our graduate programme.