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Meet the Classics Faculty

At Knox, five full-time classicists are joined by faculty from other departments with specialized training in classical studies. This diversity, as well as the wide range of disciplines embraced under the aegis of classical studies, lends the program a special interdisciplinary character and builds bridges between classics and other areas of the Knox curriculum.

Brenda Fineberg Brenda Fineberg, Co-Chair
Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991
"Can a poem that celebrates the simple pleasures of the Italian countryside teach us anything about Rome-the most powerful city the world had known?"
Stephen FinebergStephen Fineberg, Co-Chair
Szold Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1975
"I am working on a book on the god Dionysos."
Ryan Fowler Ryan Fowler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph.D. Classics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2008
"My teaching interests include the use of and response to philosophy, specifically Plato, in the development of early Christianity and the study of the philosophical ideas found within Classical Greek tragedy and history."
Cooperating faculty from other programs

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George Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1970
"Maps often convey subtle prejudices about the superiority of nations and cultures."
Lane Sunderland

Lane Sunderland
Chancie Booth Ferris Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1972
"I have recently completed the last of a series of three articles for the journal Religion and Education. The most recent article analyzes the constitutional issues involved in school vouchers."

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