NOTES TO TEACHERS:
This page is meant to connect K-12 teachers of Latin and Classics with college and university faculty who would like to share their work and interests with classes in NC schools.
Professors’ topics are representative. More specific possibilities within those areas may be discussed one-on-one.
One’s name on this list is not a commitment to present. A professor may be unavailable for any number of reasons (e.g., a conflict in date, the distance of travel, the degree of busyness). Teachers should be prepared to have a request declined or put off a year or two.
Davidson College
Keyne Cheshire, Professor of Classics
Euclidean geometry (its magic and meaning in antiquity), Ovid’s Ibis (a Latin literary curse poem), Prometheus (and Pandora) in Hesiod, name-play in the Odyssey’s Cyclops episode, versions of the Cyclops in ancient literature and art
In-person preferred (within a reasonable distance), but virtual doable
kecheshire@davidson.edu
Brian S. Hook, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, Stoicism, Satire, Food in Rome (Production/Preparation/Eating), Christianity and Rome, Protest in Roman Republic & Empire
Prefer in-person, depending on distance, Wed/Fri afternoons and Tues/Thurs mornings (in fall 2022 and probably spring 2023)
bshook@unca.edu
C. Jacob Butera, Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Greek and Roman history, military history, art history, etc.
In-person and virtual availability both, though in-person is preferred
jbutera@unca.edu
UNC-Asheville
Sophie Mills, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies/Classics
Topics – pretty much anything on Greek tragedy, Theseus, Athenian imperial rhetoric, reception (Classics in novels, e.g. The Secret History, etc.)
In-person or virtual
UNC-Chapel Hill
Janet Downie, Associate Professor of Classics
Ancient Greek Language, Greek Alphabet, Greek roots in English, Greek Inscriptions, Ancient Greek Books (papyri, manuscripts)
In-person or virtual
Sharon James, Professor of Classics
women in Rome, women in Roman comedy, Roman comedy
In-person, within a 30-minute drive of Chapel Hill
Dr. Jim O’Hara, Paddison Professor of Latin
Vergil’s Aeneid
Virtual is easy; in-person might work sometimes, the closer to Chapel Hill the better
UNC-Greensboro
Robyn Le Blanc, Assissant Professor of Classical Studies
ancient coins, Roman “piggy banks” and money boxes, Roman food, myth in art, Alexander the Great
In-person or virtual
Dr. Maura Heyn
ancient Palmyra, tombs, funerary sculpture, most topics around daily life in Rome, women in antiquity, most topics around ancient cities.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are more open for me.
Jonathan Zarecki, Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Roman warfare/army, Roman law, Cicero
In-person and virtual
Wake Forest University
John Oksanish, Associate Professor
Roman architecture, Roman civic identity, notions of the body in antiquity, Vitruvius, Cicero, Horace.
In-person within a one-hour driving radius, or via zoom.
Robert Ulery, Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages
History and Public Speech; Who writes history? How do you write history? Tacitus and Sallust (and Caesar and Livy). How did ancient history come down to us? Speaking Latin; Using Latin to read Latin.
Preferably in-person
North Carolina Classical Association (NCCA) 