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Lee Ann Riccardi holds a B.A.(Ohio State University), M.A. (Ohio State University), and Ph.D.(Boston University) in Art History. In her graduate work, she concentrated on Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Before coming to TCNJ, she taught art history as a Visiting Professor at Smith College and Boston University. She has also worked on several archaeological projects in Greece, including Isthmia, Nikopolis, and the Athenian Agora, where she was a staff member from 1994-1998. Her research involves the study of the portraits and propaganda of Roman emperors and their families, particularly as depicted in the Greek world. She has written several articles on different aspects of this topic, and is currently working on a manuscript about the significance and appearance of various wreaths and crowns worn by the rulers of the Roman Empire. For the Classical Studies program, she teaches courses on Greek and Roman art history and archaeology, including Ancient and Classical Art, Cities and Sanctuaries of Greece and Rome, and Representations of Women in Ancient Art.
Glenn Steinberg holds a B.A. (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) and Ph.D. (Indiana University) in English with a specialization in medieval literature. His research focuses on the reception of classical and medieval texts in England during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance with a particular emphasis on the evolving reputations of Virgil, Dante, and Chaucer from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. He taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, for four years before coming to The College of New Jersey in 1998. For the Classical Studies program, he teaches courses on World Literature to 1800, Virgil and Dante, and The Epic in Theory and Practice.
Celia Chazelle received her B.A. in History from the University of Toronto, in 1977, and her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1985. Her research concerns Europe in late antiquity and the early middle ages, with a focus on religious and intellectual developments in the Latin west. She is the author of various articles in these areas, a volume of collected essays (Literacy, Politics, and Artistic Innovation in the Early Medieval West, Lanham, 1992), and a forthcoming book (The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion, Cambridge, 2001). She teaches courses on ancient Christianity, the Roman Empire, and the influence of classical religious and intellectual traditions in early medieval Europe.
John Karras did his undergraduate and graduate work at Rutgers University, and has been at TCNJ for 36 years. He was chair of the History Department for many years. He is a specialist in Byzantine history, and teaches courses in the History Department and in the College Honors Program on Ancient Greece, Rome, and the late ancient world.
David Pollio holds a B.A. (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), M.A. (Tufts University), and Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College) in Classical Languages and was a Whiting Fellow for 2000-2001 at Bryn Mawr. His current research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman literature, in particular, Greek and Roman epic and Augustan Age poetry. He taught intensive summer Latin courses at Rutgers University (Camden) from 1996-2000 and Greek (part-time) at TCNJ from 1997-2000. He currently teaches Greek and Latin as well as ancient literature courses in translation.
John holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts (from St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rutgers University. John has previously taught at Temple University, the College of William & Mary, and the California State University at San Bernardino. This is his first year at the College of New Jersey. John’s research interests are in ancient philosophy, and he has special interests in both Aristotle’s philosophy of mind and early Greek cosmology. John’s work has been published in a number of highly regarded journals, including Classical Quarterly, Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron and Archiv fur geschichte der Philosophie. This past summer, John participated in an N.E.H. seminar on Aristotle’s philosophy of language. He is currently pursuing research on Aristotle’s account of imagination and on the relation between Plato’s account of cognition in the Timaeus and earlier discussions of cognition in the Hippocratic corpus. For the Classical Studies Program, John teaches Ancient Philosophy, Seminar on Aristotle and Seminar on Plato.
Alan Bowen has received a B.A. (Hon.), M.A., and Ph.D., all in philosophy, from the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton). He has edited Selected Papers of F. M. Cornford (New York, 1987), Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece (New York, 1991), and Astronomy and Astrology from the Babylonians to Kepler (Aarhus, 2003), and is the author of numerous articles on the history and philosophy of the exact sciences in antiquity. His primary interests are in the history of Greco-Latin astronomy and harmonic science. In 1983-84 he was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and has received several research grants including two from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986, 1988-91). He has just finished Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy. A Translation of The Heavens with Introduction and Commentary with Robert B. Todd (Berkley, 2004), and is currently writing a book on Hellenistic astronomy in addition to editing a collection of papers on Aristotle's De caelo. He has taught at Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh. At TCNJ, he teaches the Greek and Latin languages.
Peter Gruen received his B.A. from Rutgers, and his M.A. in Greek and his Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Columbia. He has been a Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and done graduate work in the Drama Department of Carnegie-Mellon. His early research was in Greek epic poetry and he has published on the Roman epic poet, Vergil. Before coming to The College of New Jersey, he was on the faculty at Manhattanville College, where he was the Chair of the Classics Department, Rutgers, and The City University of New York. He is a playwright: his plays have been produced in Pittsburgh and New York, and "For Anna" was a winner in the Off-Off Broadway Play Festival and was published by Samuel French. He has also translated poetry from Greek and Latin and taught foreign languages (Latin, German, French and Spanish) to school children in elementary, middle and high schools in New Jersey. He is now working on a play, "Cliff Notes," and on translations from Greek. |
Lee Ann Riccardi (Art), Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator, 304 Holman Hall, Ext. 2347, 
Glenn A. Steinberg (English), Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator, Ext. 2106, 
Celia Chazelle (History), Associate Professor, 245 Forcina Hall, Ext. 2205, 
John P. Karras (History), Associate Professor, 228 Forcina Hall, Ext. 2135
David Pollio (Classical Studies), Assistant Professor 
John E. Sisko (Philosophy and Religion), Assistant Professor
Alan C. Bowen (Classical Studies), Adjunct Professor, 112 Bliss Hall, Ext. 2794, 
Peter Gruen (Classical Studies), Adjunct Professor, 112 Bliss Hall, Ext. 2794,