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  • Carl A. Anderson (PR) -- Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Michigan State University.  University of Michigan, Ph.D.  He has published articles on Greek literature and culture in the American Journal of Philology, Classical Philology, Transactions of the American Philological Association, and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, and a book on the goddess Athena's treatment in the plays of Aristophanes.
    E-mail: ander100@msu.edu
  • James Allan Evans (PR) -- Professor Emeritus, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia. Ph.D., Yale, 1957. Since retirement from UBC, has been a visiting professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle, a visiting faculty member at Simon Fraser University for one term, and a Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece. Author of A Social and Economic History of an Egyptian temple in Greco-Roman Egypt (Yale, 1961); Procopius (New York, 1972); Herodotus (Boston, 1982); Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays (Princeton, 1991); The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power (London/NYC, 1996). Has just completed book on the empress Theodora, the wife of Justinian.
  • M. Eleanor Irwin (PR) -- Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, University of Toronto at Scarborough. Ph.D. 1967. Author of Colour terms in Greek Poetry and articles on colour and plants in Greek literature, for example "Evadne, Iamos and violets in Pindar's Sixth Olympian", Hermes [1996]; "Flowers in the landscape of Greek epic" Echos du Monde Classique/ Classical Views XLI n.s. 16 (1997) 375-90. She has also published work on women in the ancient world, cf "Gender, status and identity in a North African martyrdom 203 C.E.", 251-260, Biblioteca di Scienze Religiose 138, Gli imperatori Severi E. dal Covolo e G. Rinaldi edd. Rome 1999 (Proceedings of the First International Conference on Severan Studies May-June 1996) and on the use of technology in teaching, cf. "Introducing students to electronic resources on women in the Classical world. A report" Resources for Feminist Research 27. 1-2 (1999) 109-115.
  • Fred W. Jenkins (PR) -- Head of Collection Management and Associate Professor, University of Dayton Library. Ph.D. in classical philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985. Dissertation: Ammianus Marcellinus' Knowledge and Use of Republican Latin Literature. Research interests: later Latin literature, papyrology, books and libraries in antiquity, history of classical scholarship, classical bibliography. Publications: Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature (1996); articles/chapters in Archiv fur Papyrusforschung, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, College & Research Libraries News, Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, Eranos, Magazines for Libraries, Studia Papyrologica, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik; reviews in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, College and Research Libraries, Reference Reviews Europe Online.
    E-mail: fred.jenkins@udayton.edu
  • Alan Sommerstein (PR) -- Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham, UK, and director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception. He is a former editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, and has published a book on Aeschylean tragedy and editions of eleven plays by Aeschylus and Aristophanes.
  • Andrew Traver (PR) -- Andrew Traver, Assistant Professor, Ancient and Medieval History, Southeastern Louisiana University. Ph.D., University of Toronto, M.S.L. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, M.A. University of Toronto, B.A. Eckerd College. Articles in Sixteenth-Century Studies, Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age, Franciscan Studies, History of Universities, and Archivum Franciscanum Historicum. Currently editing From Polis to Empire: An Interdisciplinary Biography of the Ancient and Late Antique World and Duns Scotus' Quaestiones super libros De anima Aristotelis.
  • W. F. Wyatt (PR) -- Professor emeritus of Classics at Brown University, Providence RI. Editor New England Classical Journal, recently revised A. T. Murray's translation of Homer's Iliad. Books on Homer, Greek and Indo-European linguistics, 80 articles and 45 reviews. Contributor also to the op-ed pages of the Providence Journal; board member of College Year in Athens, President of the Westport (MA) Historical Society.
    E-mail: WFWyatt53B@aol.com
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