Classics Faculty

Kathleen M. Coleman

Department Chair
James Loeb Professor of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

Research Interests: Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; history and culture of the early Empire; arena spectacles; Roman punishment; Latin...

Margaret Andrews

Assistant Professor of Classics

Research Interests: Mediterranean archaeology, especially Roman; archaeological theory and methods; urbanism and urban transformation; urban social... Read more about Margaret Andrews

Boylston Hall

margaretandrews@fas.harvard.edu

Monday 12–2 p.m.

Emma Dench

McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests: Roman Republican and early Imperial history; questions of identity in the ancient world; Roman...

David Elmer

Eliot Professor of Greek Literature
On leave 2020–21

Research Interests: the Homeric poems, the Greek and Roman novels, South Slavic oral epic poetry, contemporary literary theory

Website

Boylston 223

delmer@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.4019

Jared M. Hudson

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor of Classics

Research Interests: Latin literature and Roman culture; late republican and early imperial Latin prose; Cicero and Roman...

Paul Kosmin

Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History
On parental leave spring 2021

Research Interests: Greek history (especially Hellenistic); Greek historiography (especially Herodotus, Polybius, 1 and 2 Maccabees); ancient kingship and...

Rachel Love

Assistant Professor of the Classics

Research Interests: Latin historiography; historical epitome; Livy; Florus; The Livian Periochae; Latin prose; literary culture of the Roman Republic... Read more about Rachel Love

Website

Boylston 217

rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1709

Office Hours: Tuesday 1–2 p.m.