Faculty & Staff

The Department of Classics at GVSU offers students with inquiring minds a welcoming place where their individual gifts are recognized and nurtured by our distinguished faculty of scholar-teachers.

Department of Classics

211 Lake Huron Hall
Grand Valley State University
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI  49401

[email protected]
(616) 331-3600 (office)
(616) 331-3775 (fax)

Department Chair

Prof. Charles Pazdernik
211 Lake Huron Hall

[email protected]
(616) 331-3600

Academic Department Coordinator

Alison Sall
211 Lake Huron Hall

[email protected]
(616) 331-3600

Faculty

David Crane

Associate Professor

211G Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-3683

Ancient philosophy / Greek literature / narratology / gender and sexuality

David Crane Profile


Charles Ham

Associate Professor

211F Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-5057

Latin literature and Roman culture / poetry of Ovid and its reception / ecocriticism and the environmental humanities

Charles Ham Profile


Benjamin Howland

Benjamin Howland

Visiting Assistant Professor

215 Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-3093

Spartacus / Classical Reception / Classical Exempla during American Reconstruction / Ancient Slavery / The Roman Republic / Ancient World Literature / Race and Racism in American Classical Studies 


Melissa Morison

Associate Professor

211D Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-3231

Roman and Greek Archaeology / Ceramic Technology & Petrography / Monuments and Place-Making

Melissa Morison Profile


Charles Pazdernik

Professor and Chair

211E Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-3165

Greco-Roman political and legal history / late antiquity / classical historiography

Charles Pazdernik Profile


Jeremy Swist

Visiting Assistant Professor

211A Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-3073

Pagan rhetoric, philosophy, and historiography under the later Roman Empire / The emperor Julian / Reception of Greece, Rome, & Byzantium in heavy metal music

Jeremy Swist Profile


Margaret ten Berge

Assistant Professor

211H Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-2992

Roman archaeology / Roman provincial archaeology / Roman economy / Ancient agricultural economies / Ancient environments / Ancient agriculture / Non-elite society / Archaeological research methods

Margaret ten Berge Profile


Emma Warhover

Visiting Assistant Professor

211I Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-3611

Ancient historiography / comedy / ancient and modern theories of humor

Emma Warhover Profile



Emerita/us Faculty

William Levitan

Professor Emeritus

William Levitan Profile

 


Diane Rayor

Professor Emerita

Greek language and literature / literary translation / women in antiquity / mythology

Diane Rayor Profile


In memoriam

Barbara Flaschenriem

Associate Professor Emerita (posthumous)

Barbara Flaschenriem Profile


Former Tenured Faculty

Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson

Former Department of Classics Professor

Peter Anderson Profile



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