Timothy Wadkins

Timothy Wadkins

TIMOTHY WADKINS, an emeritus professor at Canisius University and a Designated Campus Colleague at the University of Arizona, specializes in Global Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity. He’s leading a $2 million research project on megachurches in the Global...
Dr. Bella Vivante

Dr. Bella Vivante

Honored to receive 2018’s Ted & Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award, Bella brings her enthusiastic love of Ancient Greek poetry and culture to her HSP classes: Homer’s brilliant epics, select themes in Greek drama, Ancient Anatolia, more. See this dynamic...
David Soren

David Soren

DAVID SOREN is Regents Professor of Anthropology, Classics, and Art History. He is a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He was named Honorary Italian Citizen for his contributions to Italian archaeology and Honorary Philhellene by...
Norman Austin

Norman Austin

NORMAN AUSTIN is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Arizona. With his B.A. from Toronto and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, he has taught Greek and Latin literature at several universities. He joined the University of Arizona in 1980. He has taught...
Karen Seat

Karen Seat

Dr. Karen Seat specializes in U.S. religious history, American evangelicalism, and gender studies. In 2012, Dr. Seat began serving as director of the Religious Studies Program, and in 2015 she was appointed head of the Department of Religious Studies and Classics. In...
Caleb Simmons

Caleb Simmons

CALEB SIMMONS is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics. He has published on religion in South Asia, especially Hinduism: Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India, The Navarātri Festival in South Asia, and Nine Nights of the...
Courtney Friesen

Courtney Friesen

COURTNEY FRIESEN is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics, where he teaches Greek, the New Testament, and early Christianity. Prior to the University of Arizona, Dr. Friesen taught at Oxford. He researches intersections of Greek...
Cynthia White

Cynthia White

CYNTHIA WHITE is a Professor Emerita in Classics at the University of Arizona and has published widely on Latin pedagogy, Greek and Latin Epithalamia, medieval Latin bestiaries, and Rome’s material culture. Her works include Sublime Cosmos in Greco-Roman...
Philip Waddell

Philip Waddell

PHILIP WADDELL is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Missouri and specializes in Latin and Greek historiography, Classical History, and Ancient Rhetoric. His work in...
Daisy Vargas

Daisy Vargas

Dr. Daisy Vargas (Ph.D. in History, University of California, Riverside; M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Denver) specializes in Catholicism in the Americas; race, ethnicity, and religion in the United States; and Latina/o religion. Her current project,...
Kristy Slominski

Kristy Slominski

Kristy Slominski (Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) specializes in the interaction of religion, science, and health in U.S. history; the history of sex education in the United States; and the impact of religion on U.S. public health...
Robert Stephan

Robert Stephan

Rob Stephan is an archaeologist by training and has taught in the University of Arizona’s Department of Religious Studies and Classics since 2016. Rob’s research interests focus on how the material remains of the past can inform us about the economic performance...
Robert Groves

Robert Groves

Dr. Rob Groves is an Associate Professor of Practice and has worked in the Classics program for the past ten years. He regularly works on and teaches about ancient Greek drama and modern dramatic engagement with the Classics, informed by his ongoing experience with...