Faculty & Research Interests
Fabio Colivicchi
Professor
Office: 502 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74821
Email: colivicf@queensu.ca
Research interests: Urbanization and state formation; Greek colonies; Etruscans; pre-Roman cultures of South Italy; ancient imperialism; multiculturalism in the Roman empire; early and republican Rome.
Website: Caere Excavation Project, Italy
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International Collaborations with Queen's Classics Department
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.
Anthony D'Elia
Professor (joint appointment with History)
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74375
Email: deliaa@queensu.ca
Research interests: Italian Renaissance, Intellectual/Social/Cultural History of Early Modern Europe, classical tradition, Latin (Classical and Renaissance).
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R. Drew Griffith
Professor, Department Head
Office: 513 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74826
Email: griffitd@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek literature, comparative literature, and literary criticism
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Bernard J. Kavanagh
Associate Professor
Office: 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 and Graduate Coordinator
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
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Beatrice Poletti
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: 501 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74827
Email: bp72@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek and Roman historiography, Roman history, Greek and Roman identity, Augustan literature, Roman religion and mythology.
M. Barbara Reeves
Associate Professor
Office: 512 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74824
Email: reevesb@queensu.ca
Research interests: Roman archaeology, Nabataean culture, the Roman Near East, cultural relations between Roman soldiers and indigenous peoples, the religious practices of Roman soldiers, ancient bath houses and bathing technology, ceramic building materials, petroglyphs and graffiti, the history of archaeology, the history of Queen's Classics Department
Website: Humayma Excavation Project, Jordan, Queen's Classics at 175, sample publications
Sveva Savelli
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: 510 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000 ext. 75720
Email: ss333@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek history and archaeology, Greek colonization, economics, Athenian Empire, funerary ideology, cultural heritage protection
Tim Wright
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: 511 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000 ext. 74822
Email: tw69@queensu.ca
Research interests: Greek epic, kinship, Greek historiography, ancient scholarship, and Latin epigraphy
Cristiana Zaccagnino
Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Office: 509 Watson Hall
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 78834
Email: zaccagn@queensu.ca
Research interests: Magna Graecia, Greek archaeology, ancient bronzes, classical tradition, field archaeology, ancient polychromy and Numismatics
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Cross-Appointed Faculty
Richard S. Ascough
Professor (Religious Studies)
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 77507
Email: rsa@queensu.ca
Research interests: Religious interaction and community development in the Greco-Roman world;Modern theories of Christian origins; Religion and film.
George Bevan
Associate Professor (Geography)
Office: Mac-Corry D130
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 78847
Email: bevan@queensu.ca
Research interests: Late Antiquity, Syriac, Papyrology, Photogrammetry, and GIS
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Professor (History)
Telephone: (613) 533-6000, ext. 77507
Email: greenfie@queensu.ca
Research Interests: Late Antiquity and Middle & Late Byzantine history.