All members of the classics department are active scholars and experienced teachers. Among their teaching and research interests are the following: Greek and Roman literature and society; women's issues; Roman history; ancient Egypt; women's issues; classical and modern literature; and philosophy.
Anne Feltovich received her bachelor's degree in classics from Grinnell College and her Ph.D. in classical philology from the University of Cincinnati. She specializes in the study of relationships between women as depicted in Greek and Latin literature. Feltovich has taught Ancient Greek and Latin language courses as well as Ancient Greek history and archaeology, and has participated in archaeological excavations in Athens and Corinth. She comes to Hamilton from a visiting position at Grinnell College.
Barbara Gold, who earned a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989. Her research interests are Greek and Roman literature, comparative literature, women in antiquity, and feminist theory and classics, and late antique/early Christian literature. Gold was the first woman editor of The American Journal of Philology, the oldest journal in the U.S.
Gold is editor of The Blackwell Companion to Roman Elegy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), to which she contributed a chapter, “Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?,” and is editor of the forthcoming Perpetua: a Martyr’s Tale (Oxford University Press, 2012). She is also working on a book on Juvenal’s Roman satires and is the co-editor of Roman Women: Gender, Representation and Reception (forthcoming). Gold wrote a number of articles that were published or forthcoming in Classical World, Women and Comedy, Eugesta, Encyclopedia of Ancient History and Oxford Readings in Propertius.
She is co-editor with John Donahue of Roman Dining (2006, Johns Hopkins University Press). Her other books include Vile Bodies: Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse; Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition; Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome; and Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome.
Gold is the humanities coordinator at Hamilton and runs the Humanities Forum Lecture series. She is also on the National Faculty Advisory Committee for a multi-year assessment grant funded by the Teagle Foundation focusing on the fields of classics and political science.
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Carl A. Rubino, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989, received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo. He has published and lectured on ancient Greek and Roman literature, comparative literature and literary theory. A long-time collaborator of the Nobel Laureate physicist Ilya Prigogine, Rubino is also known for his work on the connections between science and the humanities, where he has focused on complexity theory, the problem of time, and the impact of the theory of evolution upon ethics. At Hamilton he has been the originator of College 100, “The Unity of Knowledge,” a cross-disciplinary seminar for entering students.
His recent publications include “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Another Look at Star Wars and the Ancient World,” (The Classical Outlook, 2011), “It Was Their Destiny: Roman Power and Imperial Self-Esteem” (Amphora, 2007), and “The Consolations of Uncertainty: Time, Change, and Complexity” (in Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from the North and South, 2007). A paperback version of his 2008 co-edited book Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: Precursors and Prototypes appeared in 2010. Rubino has served as president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. He has appeared on CNBC in a discussion of the rationale for keeping Alexander Hamilton's portrait on the $10 bill, on C-SPAN in a reenactment of the 1804 Hamilton-Burr duel, and on the History Channel in a Lucasfilm documentary “Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed,” where he discussed the films’ roots in mythology. Rubino also directs a Hamilton lecture series at The Other Side, a community center in Utica.
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If you think ancient history is – well, ancient history, look again. At Hamilton, many classics courses have a distinctly contemporary spin. A few topics: the nature of heroism; the portrayal of Rome and Romans in modern film; ethics and politics in classical civilization; the role of women in antiquity; and the importance of Africa as an ancient source of culture, science and civilization.
Hamilton’s Classics Department is a leader in using digital technology to bring the ancient world to life. Professor Carl Rubino helps direct the VRoma Project, a virtual re-creation of ancient Rome online that provides an interactive, collaborative learning environment for students and scholars.
Hamilton's classics faculty is internationally recognized for its range of research into ancient Greek, Roman and African culture. The department is home to The American Journal of Philology, the oldest classics journal in the United States; Professor Barbara Gold is the Journal’s first woman editor. Professor Shelley Haley chairs the national committee that develops Advanced Placement exams in Latin.
Forget the stereotype of the classics scholar poring over musty manuscripts in a corner of the library. Classics study at Hamilton is a way of thinking about and engaging with culture, language and the past. It’s a discipline that produces not only teachers and scholars, but professionals in business, banking, publishing, law, even medicine.
If you think ancient history is – well, ancient history, look again. At Hamilton, many classics courses have a distinctly contemporary spin. A few topics: the nature of heroism; the portrayal of Rome and Romans in modern film; ethics and politics in classical civilization; the role of women in antiquity; and the importance of Africa as an ancient source of culture, science and civilization.
Hamilton’s Classics Department is a leader in using digital technology to bring the ancient world to life. Professor Carl Rubino helps direct the VRoma Project, a virtual re-creation of ancient Rome online that provides an interactive, collaborative learning environment for students and scholars.
Hamilton's classics faculty is internationally recognized for its range of research into ancient Greek, Roman and African culture. The department is home to The American Journal of Philology, the oldest classics journal in the United States; Professor Barbara Gold is the Journal’s first woman editor. Professor Shelley Haley chairs the national committee that develops Advanced Placement exams in Latin.
Forget the stereotype of the classics scholar poring over musty manuscripts in a corner of the library. Classics study at Hamilton is a way of thinking about and engaging with culture, language and the past. It’s a discipline that produces not only teachers and scholars, but professionals in business, banking, publishing, law, even medicine.
If you think ancient history is – well, ancient history, look again. At Hamilton, many classics courses have a distinctly contemporary spin. A few topics: the nature of heroism; the portrayal of Rome and Romans in modern film; ethics and politics in classical civilization; the role of women in antiquity; and the importance of Africa as an ancient source of culture, science and civilization.
Hamilton’s Classics Department is a leader in using digital technology to bring the ancient world to life. Professor Carl Rubino helps direct the VRoma Project, a virtual re-creation of ancient Rome online that provides an interactive, collaborative learning environment for students and scholars.
Hamilton's classics faculty is internationally recognized for its range of research into ancient Greek, Roman and African culture. The department is home to The American Journal of Philology, the oldest classics journal in the United States; Professor Barbara Gold is the Journal’s first woman editor. Professor Shelley Haley chairs the national committee that develops Advanced Placement exams in Latin.
Forget the stereotype of the classics scholar poring over musty manuscripts in a corner of the library. Classics study at Hamilton is a way of thinking about and engaging with culture, language and the past. It’s a discipline that produces not only teachers and scholars, but professionals in business, banking, publishing, law, even medicine.
If you think ancient history is – well, ancient history, look again. At Hamilton, many classics courses have a distinctly contemporary spin. A few topics: the nature of heroism; the portrayal of Rome and Romans in modern film; ethics and politics in classical civilization; the role of women in antiquity; and the importance of Africa as an ancient source of culture, science and civilization.
Hamilton’s Classics Department is a leader in using digital technology to bring the ancient world to life. Professor Carl Rubino helps direct the VRoma Project, a virtual re-creation of ancient Rome online that provides an interactive, collaborative learning environment for students and scholars.
Hamilton's classics faculty is internationally recognized for its range of research into ancient Greek, Roman and African culture. The department is home to The American Journal of Philology, the oldest classics journal in the United States; Professor Barbara Gold is the Journal’s first woman editor. Professor Shelley Haley chairs the national committee that develops Advanced Placement exams in Latin.
Forget the stereotype of the classics scholar poring over musty manuscripts in a corner of the library. Classics study at Hamilton is a way of thinking about and engaging with culture, language and the past. It’s a discipline that produces not only teachers and scholars, but professionals in business, banking, publishing, law, even medicine.
