Faculty

Departmental Contacts

Name Title Office/Email Research Interests
Rumee Ahmed 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 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 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 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 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
Rob Cousland 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 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 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 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 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.
Toph Marshall 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 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

 

 

 

Mockery, secrecy, rumor, gossip, messianic secret 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 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 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

 

Roger Wilson 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
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