Faculty

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Charles Frederick Bartlett

Lecturer

Charles Bartlett received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from Harvard University, and subsequently taught at Duke University and at Harvard before joining the University of Miami in 2021. His research focuses on ancient law, the ancient economy, and ancient empires; he is most interested in the afterlives of these traditions and phenomena in later...

Jennifer L Ferriss-Hill

Professor

(305) 284-4036
Jennifer Ferriss-Hill received her A.B. in Classics summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University (2002) and her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University (2008). She joined the University of Miami in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Classics, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015,...

Allannah K. Karas

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-9834
Dr. Allannah Karas has been an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami in Florida since Fall 2021. She received her Ph.D. in Classics from the City University of New York (CUNY), and, before arriving at Miami, she taught and directed a Greek and Roman Studies program for four years at Valparaiso University, outside Chicago....


John Paul Russo

Professor
Chair of Classics Department

(786) 200-0803

Wilson H Shearin

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5404
Wilson Shearin joined the University of Miami faculty from Stanford in 2010. His research focuses above all on the intersection of philosophy and literature in antiquity, particularly in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Favorite ancient authors include Empedocles, Plato, Lucretius, Persius, and Seneca, but his work ranges also into reception,...

Han Tran

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-6326
Han Tran received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. She taught at UC Berkeley, The Ohio State University, and the University of Oregon before joining the faculty at the University of Miami. Her research interests center on the language of iconography, the reception of classical myth in the art of all...

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