AHMA Alumni
Sara Bavousett Aleshire
d. 2 May 1997
Ph.D., AHMA 1986
Assistant Editor, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 1977-1997
Major publications: The Athenian Asklepieion: The People, Their
Dedications, and the Inventories (Amsterdam 1989)
Asklepios at Athens: Epigraphic and Prosopographic Essays on the Athenian
Healing Cults (Amsterdam 1991)
Endowed by bequest The Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek
Epigraphy, University of California at Berkeley.
Ory Amitay
B.A. (Tel Aviv University, 1994)
M.A. (Tel Aviv University, 1997)
Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley, 2002)
Employment: History Department at Haifa University, Israel, teaching
courses History Department at Haifa University, Israel, teaching courses on
late republic and early principate, Alexander the Great, ancient religion,
research methodology andtactics.
Research Interests: History of Monotheism; Alexandrology; Social and
religious history of Rome
Articles to be published in the upcoming year: Why Did Alexander the Great Besiege Tyre?" in Athenaeum; and "The Historical Contexts of Simon the Just" in JSP
Hobbies: thn politeian vewterzein, looking at a prominently displayed picture of
Erich Gruen
amitay@magenta.co.il
Robert Bauslaugh
PhD AHMA, 1979; Society of Fellows, Columbia University 1979/80
Employment: Professor in Social Sciences Division of Brevard College
Books: The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Greece (1991); Silver Coinage
with the Types of Aesillas the Quaestor (2000)
Currently working on book on concept and practice of neutrality in the
warfare of Hellenistic states
bauslaugh@brevard.edu
Richard Billows
rab4@columbia.edu
Darice Birge
dbirge@wpo.it.luc.edu
Scott Bradbury
sbradbur@smith.edu
Jorge Bravo
jjbravo@berkeley.edu
Amelia R. Brown
2007-08 "The City of Corinth and Urbanism in Late Antique Greece" (Susanna Elm)
arbrown@berkeley.edu
Angela Buxton
aheloizabuxton@hotmail.com
Bridget Buxton
B.A. (hons.)
M.A. (Victoria University, NZ)
Interests: Augustus, Roman and Hellenistic history and archaeology,
underwater archaeology, Greek religion
Currently lecturing in Classics and Ancient History, The University of
Auckland, NZ
ba.buxton@auckland.ac.nz
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/cla/
Nicholas Cahill
Ph.D (AHMA 1991)
Currently at the University of Wisconsin, Art History Department
Interests: Sardis, Olynthus and Lydian houses
ndcahill@wisc.edu
Daniel Caner
BA (Princeton, 1986), PhD (AHMA, UC Berkeley 1998
Employment: Associate Professor of History & Classics, University of
Connecticut, Storrs.
Dissertation: "Wandering, Begging Monks, Social Order and the Promotion of
Monasticism in the Roman East, 360-451 CE.")
Interests: Late Antique social & cultural history; early monasticism
daniel.caner@uconn.edu
Major Publications:
2004. "Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance: Pseudo-Nilus's Narrationes in Context." In L.Ellis and F.L. Kidner, eds., Travel,Communication and Geography in Late antiquity: Sacred and Profane. Ashgate, 135-47.
2002. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 33. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
2000. "Notions of 'Strict Discipline' & Apostolic Tradition in Early Definitions of Orthodox Monasticism." In S.Elm, É.Rebillard, and A.Romano, eds., Orthodoxie, Christianisme, Histoire (Orthodoxy, Christianity, History), 23-34. Collection de l'École français de Rome 270. Rome: École français.
2000. "Nilus of Ancyra and the Promotion of a Monastic Elite." Arethusa 33: 401-410.
1997. "The Practice and Prohibition of Self-Castration in Early Christianity." Vigiliae Christianae 51:396-415.
Jack L. Cargill 
PhD from AHMA Group, 1977
Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, on faculty
since 1981
Website: http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/jcargill
Books (*=Non-ancient):
U.S. Transportation Policy for the Handicapped: A Case Study (with
'Pete' Fielding), Irvine 1980, 90 pages*
The Second Athenian League: Empire or Free Alliance?, Berkeley 1981,
xviii + 215 pages
Athenian Settlements of the Fourth Century B.C., Leiden 1995, xxviii
+ 487 pages
Handbook for Ancient History Classes, Claremont 1997, 82 pages
Mercenary of the Gods: Memoirs of a Greek in Service to Judah and
Egypt, Claremont 2004, xx + 347 pages
Family, Feelings, Play, Politics, and Holy War: Poems by
Jack Cargill, AuthorHouse 2005; ca. xii + 179 pages*
jcargill@rci.rutgers.edu
Leda Ciraolo
ledac@flash.net
Merilyn Copland Hargis
mhargis@jessup.edu
Josephine Crawley Quinn 
BA (Oxford, 1996)
MA (University of California, Berkeley, 1998)
PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 2003)
Currently University Lecturer, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Worcester
College, Oxford.
Interests: Hellenistic and Roman history, North Africa, City of Rome, gender
and colonialism.
Activities: writing a book on colonialism and culture in Hellenistic North
Africa
josephine.quinn@classics.ox.ac.uk
Robert Edwards
Jon Frey
PhD (AHMA at University of California, Berkeley, 2006)
Employment: Professor, Michigan State University
2006-07 "Speaking through Spolia: A study of the Language of Architectural Reuse in Late Roman Greece" (Chris Hallet)
yanni@berkeley.edu
Alison Futrell
BS (Anthropology, University of Utah, 1983)
MA (AHMA at University of California, Berkeley 1986)
PhD (AHMA at University of California, Berkeley,1991)
Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of
Arizona
Dissertation: Circles Across the Land: The Amphitheater in the Roman
West
Books: Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, (Austin,
TX: University of Texas Press, 1997);
The Roman Games: A Sourcebook (Oxford, England: Blackwell
Publishing, 2006)
Research Fields: Roman history, material culture, gender and politics,
representations of the ancient Mediterranean in popular culture
afutrell@u.arizona.edu
Sandra Gambetti
Laurea cum laude (University of Bologna, 1995)
MA (AHMA at UC Berkeley,1998)
PhD (AHMA, UC Berkeley 2003)
Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History at the College of
Staten Island - CUNY
Interests: Hellenistic period, focusing in particular on Hellenistic
Judaism, Alexandria in Egypt, and on one author, Philo of Alexandria.
gambetti@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Judy Gaughan
PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 1999)
Currently employed in the History Department at Colorado State University
jgaughan@lamar.colostate.edu
Matthew P. Gonzales
BA (University of Texas at Austin, 1995)
PhD (AHMA, UC Berkeley 2004)
Assistant Professor of Classics, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New
Hampshire
Fields of study: Greek History 510-338 B.C., Roman History 133 B.C.-69 A.D.,
Archaeology of Ancient Egyptian Kingship.
Main research interests: military and social history
Published The Oracle and Cult of Ares in Asia Minor in Greek Roman
and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005) 261-268.
MGonzales@Anselm.Edu
Celina Gray
BA (Vassar College, 1993), MA (University of California, Berkeley, 1995), PhD
(University of California, Berkeley, 2002)
Fields of Study: Greek and Roman art and archaeology, especially Roman
Greece and Roman History
Dissertation Topic: "Self-Representation of the 'Milesioi' on the Sculpted
Gravestones of Roman Attica"
Currently Assistant Professor of Classics at McMaster University
Currently writing book manuscript on the funerary landscape of Roman Athens
celinagray@gmail.com
C. Wilfred Griggs
egyptarchaeology@byu.edu
Jehon Grist
jehon@lehrhaus.org
Athena Hadji 
BA (National University of Athens, Greece, 1997), MA (University of
California, Berkeley, 1999)
Fields of Study: Anthropology of technology, Archaeometallurgy of the Bronze
Age Mediterranean and the Balkans, Archaeological Chronology, Greek
Epigraphy, The History of Aegean Archaeology, Anthropology of time
ahadji@socrates.berkeley.edu
leykolenos@aol.com
Chris Hallett
chrishallett@berkeley.edu
Joanne Heffelfinger
jcheffelfinger@mindspring.com
Kieran Hendrick
kieran_hendrick@yahoo.com
Melvin Hunt
Michael Ierardi
mierardi@bridgew.edu
Martha G. Jenks
PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 1999)
Previously at the Department of History at Illinois Wesleyan University
Currently in the Library & Information Science program at the University
of Texas, Austin.
mgjenks@sbcglobal.net
Leah Johnson
B.A. (Harvard University, 1987)
M.A. (U.C. Berkeley, 1991)
Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley, 1997)
Employment: Associate Professor, John Cabot University Rome, Italy
Dissertation: Roma et Italia: From the Gracchi to Cicero, 133-63 B.C.
Forthcoming Books: Romani Facti: The Romanization of Italy from the
Gracchi to Caesar, 133-44 B.C. and The Fifth Century Athenian
Standards Decree: Texts and Contexts
Research Interests: Greek and Roman History, Greek and Latin epigraphy,
Greek and Roman numismatics, Roman topography.
ljohnson@johncabot.edu
Sara Johnson
BA (Bryn Mawr, 1988)
BA (Oxford, 1990)
MA (UC Berkeley, 1992)
PhD (UC Berkeley, 1996)
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Department
of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut
Dissertation: "Mirror, Mirror: Third Maccabees, Historical Fictions and
Jewish Self-Fashioning in the Hellenistic Period"
Book: Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees
in its Cultural Context (UC Press, 2004)
Fields of Study: Hellenistic history, Hellenistic Judaism, ancient fictions
Other Interests: Japanese language, computers
sara.johnson@uconn.edu
Kenneth R. Jones
krjones@berkeley.edu
Lisa Kallet
Ph.D. (AHMA 1987)
Currently Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Classical Athens, Economy of the Athenian Empire, Greek
Historiography and Epigraphy
kallet@mail.utexas.edu
Brady Kiesling
Former U.S. diplomat, living in Athens. His book on U.S. foreign policy, "Diplomatic Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower" comes out in July 2006 from Potomac Books.
Web site: www.bradykiesling.com
westtothesea@hotmail.com
Bonnie M. Kingsley
A. Bernard Knapp
abk@pop-nds.arts.gla.ac.uk
Ann Kuttner
akuttner@sas.upenn.edu
Yannis Lolos
BA (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
MA (Sorbonne)
PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 1998)
Currently employed at the University of Thessaly (Volos).
Fields of Interest: Greek and Roman architecture, Survey archaeology, Greek
Epigraphy, Roman Greece, Sikyon.
lolos@hol.gr
Michael Maas
maas7@juno.com
Duane March
B.phil. Pennsylvania State University 1984
MA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1986
PhD Berkeley 1994, W. Kendrick Pritchett Fellow 1987-89, ASCSA James Rignall
Wheeler Fellow 1991-92
I am currently working in Germany and am writing an historical novel planned
for 5 volumes which I have tentatively entitled "Empire of the Medes". The
first volume "Kings and Tyrants" treats with events in Greece 571-546 BCE.
I've finished a first draft and have interested a book agent in NYC.
deutschami@hotmail.com
Jeannette Marchand
kleonai@aol.com
Glenn Markoe
gmarkoe@cincyart.org
Jeremy McInerney
jmcinern@sas.upenn.edu
Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Graduate Group in
Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests: Greek History and Epigraphy
Barbara McLauchlin
barbaram@sfsu.edu
Robert Morstein-Marx
PhD Berkeley 1987
Books: Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East
from 148 to 62 B.C. (UC Press 1995); Mass Oratory and Political power in the
Late Roman Republic (Cambridge UP 2004).
Currently Chair of Classics at UC Santa Barbara.
Other Interests: raising two boys without much patria potestas.
morstein@classics.ucsb.edu
Marianne Nicols
msnic@cas.uoregon.edu
Jessica Nitschke
2007-08 "Interpreting Infludence: Cultural Borrowing and its Limits in Ancient Phoenicia" (Erich Gruen)
jln999@gmail.com
Isabelle Pafford
ipafford@berkeley.edu
Elisabeth R. O’Connell
eoconnell@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 2007)
MA (University of California, Berkeley, 2001)
BA (summa cum laude and with highest distinction, University of California, Berkeley, 1998)
Fields of Interest: Social History and Material Culture of the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity; Early Christianity; Egypt; History of Archaeology and Collections
Dissertation: "Tombs for the Living: Monastic Reuse of Monumental Funerary Architecture in Late Antique Egypt" (Susanna Elm)
Current Employment: Research Curator (Late Antique Egypt), Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum
Eric Orlin
BA (Yale, 1986)
MA (UC Berkeley, 1990)
PhD (UC Berkeley, 1994)
Associate Professor of Classics at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington
Book: Temples, Religion and Politics in the Roman Republic, (Brill, 1997)
Fields of Study: Roman History, Ancient Religions
eorlin@ups.edu
Cecilia M. Peek
Currently employed at Bringham Young University
cecilia_peek@byu.edu
Paula Perlman
p.perlman@mail.utexas.edu
John Pollini
PhD, AHMA, 1978
Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, USC
Recipient of the Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate and
Undergraduate Students at USC (2005
Member for Life of Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut
Books: The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (1987); Gallo-Roman
Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard (2002); The de
Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture (2003) pollini@usc.edu
Molly Richardson
BA (Tennessee, 1980)
MA (Tennessee, 1988)
PhD (University of California,Berkeley, 1998)
Fields of Study: Athenian epigraphy, Athenian lawther interests: Assistant
Other Interests: Assistant Editor, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
Currently at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens
molly@agathe.gr
Steven K. Ross
Currently employed in the History Department at Louisiana State University
skross@lsu.edu
Noriko Sawada
YHY01302@niftyserve.or.jp
Jason Schlude
jschlude@berkeley.edu
Joseph Scholten
PhD, AHMA, 1987
Currently teaching in Department of Classics, University of Maryland
Book: The Politics of Plunder: Aitolians and their Koinon in the Early
Hellenistic Era, 279-217 B.C.
Working on book manuscript "Inventing Aitolia: Studies in the Origin of an
Ancient Greek Ethnos."
scholten@umd.edu
Beth Severy-Hoven
BA (Bryn Mawr College, 1990)
MSt (Oxford University, 1991); MA (UC Berkeley,1993)
PhD (UC Berkeley 1998)
Associate Professor of Classics at Macalester College in Saint Paul,
Minnesota
Book: Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman
Empire,(Routledge, 2003)
Fields of Study: Roman History, Women and Gender in Greece & Rome
Other Interests: Greek mythology & Science Fiction, teaching with
technology, broomball
severy@macalester.edu
Philip V. Stanley
pstanley@sfsu.edu
Sharon Steadman
Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Cortland
Field Director of the Çadir Höyÿk excavations in central Turkey
Director of the Brooks Museum at SUNY Cortland
Coordinator of International Studies at SUNY Cortland
steadmans@cortland.edu
Yoko Tomabechi
ytomabechi@mac.com
Nicholas Unger
Instructor at St. Mark's School, Southborough, MA
nicholas_unger@st-marks.pvt.k12.ma.us
Michael Weiskopf
PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 1982), Systems
Administrator,Carondelet High School (Concord, CA)
Publications: The So-Called "Great Satraps' Revolt", 366-360 B.C. Historia
Einzelschriften, Heft 63, Stuttgart, 1989; articles on Achaemenid material in
Encyclopaedia Iranica; articles on 19th and early 20th century Africa.
Research Interests (non-computer): Achaemenid Persia, the German
Kolonialreich, the pre-war Japanese Empire
mnweiskopf@aol.com
Emely Weissman
eweissma@apr.com
John Wonder
jwwonder@sfsu.edu
Peter Wyetzner
peterw@013.net