Todd C. Clary

Todd received his doctorate in Classics and Indo-European Linguistics from Cornell University in 2009. He subsequently held visiting assistant professorships at the University of Richmond, Virginia and Concordia University, Montréal. His primary publishing interests lie in the areas of Ancient Greek, Latin and historical syntax and phonology, but he also publishes more broadly in classical literature and art history. Hehas taught a plethora of courses ranging from Latin, Greek and Sanskrit language courses to advanced seminars in Homeric philology and Greek and Latin comparative grammar.

Michael L Weiss

Weiss' main research interests focus on Indo-European linguistics. In particular he has been interested in the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages. He has also worked on the historical grammars of Tocharian, Old Irish, Anatolian, and Indo-Iranian. Links to his publications are available on hisAcademiasite.

James Weinstein

James Weinstein

Astrid Van Oyen

I am an archaeologist studying Roman Italy and the Western provinces, exploring the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of empire, craft production, storage, and rural economies. I am particularly interested in the socio-economic history of non-elites.I joined Cornell in 2016 after holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

Barry Stuart Strauss

Barry Strauss is a classicist and a military and naval historian and consultant. In addition to teaching at Cornell, he is also the Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution. As the Series Editor of Princeton's Turning Points in Ancient History and author of nine books on ancient History, Professor Strauss is a recognized authority on the subject of leadership and the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of the greatest political and military leaders of the ancient world (Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander among many others).

Jeffrey S Rusten

Jeffrey Rusten is a Professor in the Department of Classics (and the graduate field in Theater Arts) specializing in Greek literature.His current research is in the history of comic drama, ancient historians from Herodotus to Ammianus, and Greek literature and religion in the Roman empire of the2nd-3rd century CE.

Courtney Ann Roby

My research interests focus on the literary aspects of scientific and technical texts from the ancient world, the interaction of verbal and visual elements in those texts, and cognitive science approaches to ancient scientific work. My first book (Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome, Cambridge University Press 2016) traces the literary techniques used in the textual representation of technological artifacts from Hellenistic Greece to late-ancient Rome.

Eric Rebillard

I study the transformations of religious practices in Late Antiquity.

John McTavish

I am an ancient historian whose work focuses on Greco-Macedonian political and military history during the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods. My research interests include issues of chronology, historiography, imperialism, and monarchy, but I am most passionate about the wars of the Diadochi. In the classroom I strive to put Mediterranean and Near Eastern history in dialogue with one another by incorporating Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian sources into the mainstream literary and…

Hunter R. Rawlings III

Hunter Ripley Rawlings III is an American classics scholar and academic administrator. He is best known for serving as the 10th president of Cornell University from 1995 until 2003.

Pietro Pucci

Pietro Pucci

Verity Platt

I specialize in Greek and Roman art history, and have a particular interest in the relationship between ancient literary and visual cultures, especially in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Hayden Pelliccia

Hayden Pelliccia

Sophia Taborski

Sophia Taborski is a PhD candidate in classical archaeology. They received their B. Phil. from the University of Pittsburgh in Classics and History and has taught English, Latin, and history in primary and secondary education. In their dissertation, titled “Inscribing Violence: Curse Tablets in the Roman Empire,” they examine the texts, contexts, orthography, and materiality of curse tablets to explore violence, embodiment, power dynamics, and intersectional identities and experiences such as disability, enslavement, race, gender, and sexuality. They have taken RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) image sets of curse tablets in the Medici Library in Florence, the Diocletian Baths Museum in Rome, the Roman Bath Museum in Bath, and in the Stoa of Attalos in Athens and the National Archaeological Museum of Corinth as an Associate Member of the American School for Classical Studies. They have excavated in Argilos, Greece, and at St. James AME Zion Church, Ithaca. Other interests include religion, medicine, cognitive approaches, pedagogy, and domestic archaeology.

Rebecca Gerdes

Rebecca is the Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate at CIAMS and a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She earned her PhD in Classics concentrating in Classical Archaeology from Cornell in 2024. She holds a B.A. in Classics and Chemistry and an M.Sc. in Archaeological Science. Her work integrates archaeological and biomolecular approaches to study how food practices changed as a result of large-scale political and economic shifts in the eastern Mediterranean. She is particularly interested in understanding Late Bronze Age agricultural storage in Cyprus and is also involved in projects investigating the role of food and organic products in funerary practices in Archaic Crete and Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus. She is also interested in the intersection of archaeological science and archaeological theory and the formation of archaeological datasets, and she develops new experimental methods to map organic residue preservation in the Mediterranean.

Jennifer Carrington

Micaela Carignano

Liana Brent

Liana is a PhD candidate in the Classics department. She is the recipient of a two-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2017-2019). During this time, she will complete her dissertation, Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse, and Violation in Roman Italy, which examines post-depositional skeletal manipulation in reopened and reused inhumation graves throughout Roman Italy. She conducts…

Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum

The research Nussbaum has done has been on two different sets of things. On one side he's been interested in Indo-European linguistics in general, where most of his attention has been on questions the inflectional and (especially) derivational morphology of nominal forms in the reconstructed protolanguage. More specifically, he has worked on the morphological and semantic reconstruction of some characteristic denominative substantives and adjectives of Proto-Indo-European-e.g. collectives, decasuatives (nominals derived from actual case forms, rather than the stems, of their substantival bases), and the Caland system. His second research area is Greek and Latin comparative and historical linguistics, where he's studied a number of problems in Greek and Latin phonology and morphology, done some work on the Italic dialects, and dealt with Homeric language, largely from the point of view of Greek historical grammar, but also with an eye on the purely phonological and morphological aspects of the technique of epic composition.