Faculty

Departmental Contacts

Name	Title	Office/Email	Research Interests
Rumee Ahmed	Assistant Professor of Islamic Law	Buchanan C328 rumee.ahmed@ubc.ca	Islamic Studies Islamic Law and Legal Theory Hermeneutics Islamic Theology Scriptural Reasoning
Vita Daphna Arbel	Professor of Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Mysticism	Buch C221 daphna.arbel@ubc.ca	Biblical and Early Jewish Literature Early Jewish Mysticism Enochic Literature Near-Eastern and Biblical Mythology Gender/Women: Biblical/Post-Biblical Traditions
Leanne Bablitz	Associate Professor of Roman History	BUCH C228 leanne.bablitz@ubc.ca	Roman social history and law (early imperial period) Roman courtroom and legal procedure Roman topography Roman wills and succession
Susanna Braund	Professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception	Buchanan C214 susanna.braund@ubc.ca	imperial Latin literature especially epic, Roman tragedy, Roman satire, panegyric; reception of Roman antiquity; translation studies; interface between literature, rhetoric and philosophy
Ayesha S. Chaudhry	Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Gender Studies	Buchanan C226 ayesha.chaudhry@ubc.ca	Islamic Studies and Gender Studies Islamic Law Modern and Classical Qur'anic Exegesis Feminist Hermeneutics
Lisa Cooper	Associate Professor of Near Eastern Art & Archaeology	BUCH C220 licooper@mail.ubc.ca	Archaeology of "Greater Mesopotamia" (ancient Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey) Ancient Near Eastern urban society and urban collapse History of archaeogical exploration in Mesopotamia, particularly in the early 20th century Orientalism and archaeology Pottery and Bronze Age Chronologies
Robert Cousland	Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Greek Religion & Mythology	BUCH C230 cousland@mail.ubc.ca	The Gospel of Matthew The Parable of the Leaven Jewish-Hellenistic Literature (especially 3 Maccabees and the Adam and Eve Literature) Greek Mythology and Religion Theories of Myth Religion and Contemporary Music, Film, and Literature
Franco De Angelis	Associate Professor of Greek History	Buchanan C206 franco.de_angelis@ubc.ca	Ancient Greek world (Early Iron Age to Hellenistic period) landscape history; urbanism; development of communities; colonization; economics; regional identities; intercultural contact multi- and interdisciplinary approaches (combining texts and material culture) historical contextualizations of ancient literature ancient and modern historiographies for these research...
Gregg E. Gardner	Assistant Professor, The Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics	Buchanan C216 gregg.gardner@ubc.ca	Judaic studies Classical Rabbinic literature Jews and Judaism in late antiquity Religious ethics and law Religion and material culture
Michael Griffin	Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Philosophy	Buchanan C212 michael.griffin@ubc.ca	Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy Neoplatonism and the Greek commentators on Plato and Aristotle Greek language and literature Educational technology
Carl Johnson	Senior Instructor in Classics	carljoh@mail.ubc.ca	Ptolemaic Royal Titulature, Social History of the Hellenistic World, Relations between Indigenous and Greco-Roman populations in Antiquity, Relation between Ancient and New World culture, in particular parallels between Native Egyptian and First Nations culture in terms of law, language and colonialism.
C.W. Marshall	Professor of Greek	BUCH C217 toph.marshall@ubc.ca	Ancient Theatre and Stagecraft Greek and Latin Poetry Performance, translation, and adaptation Classics and Popular Culture
Siobhan McElduff	Assistant Professor of Latin literature and Roman culture	siobhan.mcelduff@ubc.ca	the history and theory of ancient and modern translation Cicero history of classical reception, especially among the non-elite of the 18th and 19th century the history of the book
Richard Menkis	Associate Professor of Medieval & Modern Jewish History	BUCH C223 menkis@mail.ubc.ca	Historians, historical memory and Jewish identities Canadian reactions to the Nazi Germany and the Holocaust Religious and secular self-definitions of Canadian Jews Antisemitism in Canada
Sara Milstein	Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible	Buchanan C 205 sara.milstein@ubc.ca	The Development of the Hebrew Bible Mesopotamian Literature and Religion Writing and Scribal Culture in the Ancient World Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy
Dietmar Neufeld	Associate Professor of Formative Christianity in the Greco-Roman Social World	Buchanan C207 dneufeld@mail.ubc.ca	Landscape and Spatiality Ethnicity, Identity, and Collectivism Constructions of Gender and Sexuality Patronage, Clientage, and Benefaction Ancient Economies Mockery and Secrecy in the Gospel of Mark Rumor, Gossip and Information Managament in the Ancient World
Lyn Rae	Senior Instructor in Classics	BUCH C222 lyn.rae@ubc.ca
Thomas Schneider	Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies	Buchanan C208 thomas.schneider@ubc.ca	Egyptian history and chronology Cultural relations within the Ancient Near East Egyptian phonology Afroasiatic and Near Eastern languages
Hector Williams	Professor of Greek Art & Archaeology	BUCH C219 hectorw@mail.ubc.ca	Greek and Roman Archaeology, especially of the Eastern Mediterranean Lychnology Underwater Archaeology
R. J. A. Wilson	Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire	Buchanan C330 roger.wilson@ubc.ca	The archaeology of Roman and early Byzantine Sicily The archaeology and history of the Western Greeks Roman north Africa The Roman Empire in the West, including Britain Roman art and architecture
Florence Yoon	Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature	Buchanan C207 florence.yoon@ubc.ca	heralds and the representation of the absent anonymity and naming, particularly in Greek Tragedy props and silent characters in Greek drama