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
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(616) 331-3600 (office)
(616) 331-3775 (fax)
Academic Department Coordinator
Allyson Albrecht
211 Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-3600
Faculty
David Crane
Associate Professor
211G Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-3683
Ancient philosophy / Greek literature / narratology / gender and sexuality
Charles Ham
Associate Professor
211F Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-5057
Latin literature and Roman culture / poetry of Ovid and its reception / ecocriticism and the environmental humanities
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 Morison
Associate Professor
211D Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-3231
Roman and Greek Archaeology / Ceramic Technology & Petrography / Monuments and Place-Making
Charles Pazdernik
Professor and Chair
211E Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-3165
Greco-Roman political and legal history / late antiquity / classical historiography
Jeremy Swist
Visiting Assistant Professor
211A Lake Huron Hall
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(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
Margaret ten Berge
Assistant Professor
211H Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-2992
Roman archaeology / Roman provincial archaeology / Roman economy / Ancient agricultural economies / Ancient environments / Ancient agriculture / Non-elite society / Archaeological research methods
Emma Warhover
Visiting Assistant Professor
211I Lake Huron Hall
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(616) 331-3611
Ancient historiography / comedy / ancient and modern theories of humor
Emerita/us Faculty
William Levitan
Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita
Greek language and literature / literary translation / women in antiquity / mythology
In memoriam
Barbara Flaschenriem
Associate Professor Emerita (posthumous)
Former Tenured Faculty
Peter Anderson
Former Department of Classics Professor