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 and our professional support staff.

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

Department Coordinator

Allyson Albrecht
211 Lake Huron Hall

[email protected]
(616) 331-3600

Faculty & Staff Profiles

Allyson Albrecht

Department Coordinator

211 Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
(616) 331-2886

David Crane

Associate Professor

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

Ancient philosophy / Greek literature / narratology / gender and sexuality

David Crane Profile

Luiza dos Santos Souza

Visiting Assistant Professor

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

Roman Elegiac Poetry / Ovid / Education in Antiquity / Metapoetics / Ancient Language Pedagogy / Translation Theory and Practice.

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

Visiting Assistant Professor

215 Lake Huron Hall
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(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 Ludke

Visiting Assistant Professor

211A Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-3073

Roman and Italic Archaeology/Roman Economy/Numismatics/Connectivity and Network Analysis/Colonial Studies/GIS/Archaeological Research Methods.

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

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