Faculty & Staff
Regular Faculty
Salvador Bartera
Ph.D., University
of Virginia
Lecturer
Latin historiography
salvadorb2@aol.com
Christopher P. Craig
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lindsay Young Professor of Classics
Classical Rhetoric and Oratory; Cicero
ccraig@utk.edu
Sarah Downey
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Lecturer
Medieval Studies
sdowney@utk.edu
Denver Graninger
Ph.D., Cornell University
Assistant Professor
Greek religion, Greek history
cgraning@utk.edu
Maura Lafferty
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Associate Professor
Medieval Studies
mlaffert@utk.edu
Susan D. Martin
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor
Roman law; Roman social and economic history
sdmartin@utk.edu
Robert J. Sklenar
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Assistant Professor
Roman poetry
rsklenar@utk.edu
Elizabeth H. Sutherland
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Associate Professor and
Associate Head
Hellenistic and Augustan poetry; feminist theory
ehsuther@utk.edu
PERSONAL WEBSITE
David W. Tandy
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor and Head
Greek economic and social history; agriculture
dtandy@utk.edu
Aleydis Van de Moortel
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Associate Professor
Bronze age archaeology; ancient seafaring
avdm@utk.edu
PERSONAL WEBSITE
Research Faculty
Merle K. Langdon
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Professor and Lecturer
Archaeology of Greece; Greek epigraphy
& history
mlangdon@utk.edu
Retired Faculty
Geraldine C. Gesell
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Emerita
Bronze Age, Iron Age, and classical archaeology
ggesell@utk.edu
James E. Shelton
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor
Etymology; New Testament; Medieval Latin.
Related Faculty
Thomas Burman
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Professor and Head of History
Medieval Latin and Arabic
tburman@utk.edu
J.P. Dessel
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Associate Professor of History
Levantine and Aegean bronze age archaeology
jdessel@utk.edu
Mary Dzon
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Assistant Professor of English
Medieval Latin
mdzon@utk.edu
Robert
Goodding
Ph.D., University of
Texas
Lecturer in Religious
Studies
Sanskrit
rgooddin@utk.edu
Thomas J. Heffernan
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Kenneth Curry Professor of English
Early Christian martyrology
theff@utk.edu
Michael Kulikowski
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Associate Professor of History
Late antiquity
mkulikow@utk.edu
Christine Shepardson
Ph.D., Duke University
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Early Christian thought; Syriac
cshepard@utk.edu
Johanna Stiebert
Ph.D., University of Glasgow
Associate Professor of Religious
Studies
Hebrew Bible
jstiebe1@utk.edu