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Publishing Butrint

Congratulations to Professor Hernandez on being awarded three fellowships

University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor David Hernández recently received a trio of research awards: a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and a fellowship from Harvard’s Loeb Classical Library Foundation. Read More

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Discovering Butrint

Archaeological Opportunities for Notre Dame Students

Notre Dame is proudly partnered with the Albanian Institute of Archaeology in their excavations of Butrint. Every Summer, Notre Dame students are allowed to join Professor Hernandez in uncovering the mysteries of Butrint Read More

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Classics Majors Find Their Future in the Past

How to Succeed

Ever gotten quizzical looks when you tell people you're a Classics major? Or have people caution you that you won't find a job? Katharine Brooks' recent article reveals the extreme benefits Classics majors receive in future endeavors, whether those be graduate, medical, legal or business school. Majoring in Classics may just be the best kept secret to success. Read More

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An Ode to the Classics Faculty

Mel Triay Pays Homage to the Legendary Teachers of the Classics Department

Sing for me, O Muse, of those sagacious men and women
Who, having set foot upon the broad plains of South Bend
Ended their circuitous wanderings in the quest for higher education. Read More

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Graduate Students Visit Milan over Spring Break

Ambrosian Library

Over spring break, 11 members of the Notre Dame graduate seminar on the transmission of the classical text traveled with Prof. Bloomer to Milan, Italy, to inspect and read manuscripts from the fifth century through the 15th century A.D. at the Ambrosian Library. Read More

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Caesar's Legacy at Butrint

Presented through The Saturday Scholars Series

Check out Professor Hernandez' Recent Talk on "Caesar's Legacy at Butrint" which was presented through the Saturday Scholars Series. Read More

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The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education

W. Martin Bloomer
Associate Professor
Classics Read More

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Daniel J. Sheerin

Professor Emeritus

Sheerin conducts research primarily in patristic and liturgical texts, medieval Latin, and texts by Erasmus and other Reformation figures. Read More

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Robin Rhodes

Associate Professor, Departments of Classics and Art, Art History, and Design

Robin Rhodes is an archaeologist and historian of classical art and architecture and has recently been awarded a multi-year NEH Collaborative Research Grant for his work as Principal Investigator of the Greek Stone Architecture at the Corinth Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Read More

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Blake Leyerle

The John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Theology

Blake Leyerle's scholarly specialization lies in the social and cultural history of early Christianity. Read More

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Amaya Martin

Assistant Teaching Professor

Amaya Martin’s academic interests include linguistic analysis of Arabic cultural and literary texts. Read More

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Ghada Bualuan

Assistant Teaching Professor

Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classics and Program of Arabic Languages and Literature, Professor Bualuan is interested in Read More

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Elizabeth Mazurek

Associate Professor

Mazurek’s interests include Latin literature, Roman epigraphy, Roman history, and women and gender in classical antiquity. Read More

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Joseph P. Amar

Professor

Dr Joseph P. Amar is a linguist trained in ancient and modern Semitic languages and in the histories, religions, and cultures of the Middle East. He specializes in Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic literary culture and in early interactions between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Read More

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Keith R. Bradley

Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professor of Classics

Professor Bradley is an ancient historian who specializes in the social and cultural history of Rome. He has particular interests in the history of slavery, the history of the family, and the history of religion in classical antiquity. Read More

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Li Guo

Associate Professor

Guo’s areas of interest are Arabic language and literature, medieval Arabic historiography and popular culture. Read More

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David Ladouceur

Associate Professor

Ladouceur is a specialist in Hellenistic Greek and Judaism, Early Christian Latin, ancient medicine. Read More

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David Hernandez

Assistant Professor

David Hernandez is an archaeologist of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Having directed large-scale field projects at Butrint and Amantia, he has extensive knowledge of excavation methods and complex urban stratigraphy. Read More

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Hildegund Müller

Associate Professor

Hildegund Müller is a specialist of late antique Latin literature, both poetry and prose, especially the Latin Church Fathers. Her favorite classical authors are Cicero and Horace. Read More

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W. Martin Bloomer

Associate Professor

Bloomer’s chief areas of research lie in Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and ancient education. Read More

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Christopher A. Baron

Assistant Professor

Professor Baron’s interests include Greek and Roman historiography, the history of the Hellenistic period, Greek epigraphy, and the ethnic identity in the ancient world. Read More

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Tadeusz Mazurek

Associate Professional Specialist

Professor Mazurek researches the literature and cultural history of Republican Rome, with a particular interest in Roman law, religion and self-rule. Read More

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Catherine Schlegel

Associate Professor

Professor Schlegel’s research interests include Latin and Greek poetry and issues involving violence as a tool for identity formation. Read More

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Isabelle Torrance

Assistant Professor

Professor Torrance specializes in archaic and classical Greek literature and culture, especially Greek tragedy and religion. Read More