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Cheshire Assistant Professor of Classics Keyne Cheshire has taught at Davidson since 2002. He teaches a wide variety of courses in Greek and Latin language and literature with a view to appreciating the ancients intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. He has studied in Athens and Rome, worked on an archaeological survey in Grevena, Greece, and traveled extensively in the Mediterranean, especially Egypt. His latest scholarship treats Callimachus’ Hymns and Senecan tragedy. He is currently preparing for publication a translation and pedagogical commentary on the life of Alexander the Great. Peter
Krentz (chair) W. R. Grey Professor of Classics and History Peter Krentz has taught Greek and Roman history at Davidson since 1979. He was a visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2000-2001, and directed a summer session at the American School in 2003. His research interests focus on archaic and classical Greece. His publications include The Thirty at Athens (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982), two volumes of an edition of Xenophon's Hellenika including a text, translation, and commentary (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1989, 1995), Polyaenus's Stratagems of War, which he translated with Everett Wheeler (Chicago: Ares, 1994), Polis and Polemos: Essays on Politics, War and History in Ancient Greece in Honor of Donald Kagan, which he edited with Charles D. Hamilton (Claremont: Regina, 1997), and a string of articles on Greek warfare, including "Fighting by the Rules: The Invention of the Hoplite Agôn,” Hesperia 71 (2002): 23-39." He held the E. Craig Wall, Jr., Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities from 1997-1999. Jeanne
Neumann Associate Professor of Classics Jeanne Neumann has taught Latin and Greek language and literature at Davidson since 1994. Neumann serves on the editorial board of Classical Outlook and is a member of the board of directors of SALVI (septentrionale americanum latinitatis vivae institutum); she is a member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae in Rome. She leads workshops and writes on incorporating an active use of Latin as a pedagogical aid and is currently finishing a college guide to accompany Hans Ørberg’s Lingua Latina. Prof. Neumann is past president of the North Carolina Classical Association. She won the Hunter-Hamilton Teaching Award in 2005. Michael
K. Toumazou Professor of Classics Michael K. Toumazou has taught at Davidson since 1987. He specializes in art and archaeology, and offers courses in Greek language and literature as well as in Classical and Cypriot Art and Archaeology. A field archaeologist with extensive experience in both Greece and Cyprus, he has directed the Athienou Archaeological Project on his native island of Cyprus since 1990. Grants from Dumbarton Oaks, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation have supported his research. Prof. Toumazou is the first president of the new Central Carolinas chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. He won the Hunter-Hamilton Teaching Award in 2003. Affiliated Faculty Members Peter
J. Ahrensdorf Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities Peter Ahrensdorf has taught at Davidson since 1989. Every year he teaches a course "Classical Political Theory." His research interests focus on Plato and Thucydides. He published The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedo (SUNY, 1995), and with Thomas Pangle Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace (University Press of Kansas, 1999). W.
Trent Foley Professor of Religion Trent Foley has taught at Davidson since 1984. He teaches courses on early Christianity in the Religion Department, including a Latin course called "Latin Christian Writers." Chief among his special interests are early Christian narratives, including Gospels, Acts of Martyrs, and Saints' Lives. He has published a book on The Life of Wilfrid, an eighth century Anglo-Latin saints' Life (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992). In his most recent publication, Bede: A Biblical Miscellany (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1999), he and Arthur G. Holder translated various biblical commentaries written in Latin by the eighth-century English biblical scholar and historian, the Venerable Bede. Meghan
Griffith Assistant Professor of Philosophy Meghan Griffith specializes in metaphysics, free will, moral responsibility, and action theory. H.
Gregory Snyder Associate Professor of Religion Greg Snyder has taught at Davidson since 1998. He teaches courses on New Testament literature, Jesus, Paul, and selected topics in early Christianity. In the fall of 2004 he introduced a new course on religions in the Roman Empire. His research interests include the social history of religious and philosophical groups under the Roman Empire; the results of this study are gathered in his book Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World (London: Routledge, 2000). He is also drawn to the study of heterodox movements within ancient Christianity, gnosticism in particular. Paul
Studtmann Assistant Professor of philosophy Paul Studtmann is interested in ancient philosophy, in particular Aristotle's metaphysical system, traditional epistemological issues including perception and skepticism, and contemporary work in category theory.
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