Tommaso Gazzarri, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics. Professor Gazzarri came to Union in 2010. He received his Italian laurea from the Università di Pisa (Italy), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and his M.A, M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. His dissertation is entitled “Res Sine Nomine: A Study of the Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales.” He has recently published an introduction, translation, and commentary of Seneca’s De Brevitate Vitae. He is currently completing a new edition of Plautus' late comedies which will be available in February 2012. His course offerings include classical mythology, Roman law, and engineering in the ancient world. His research interests focus on Roman Stoicism, ancient science and silver Latin literature. Email: gazzarrt@union.edu.

 Hans-Friedrich Otto Mueller,  William D. Williams Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department. Professor Mueller came to Union in 2004. Molinarius received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His course offerings have included ancient history, Roman law, ancient religion, Greek, Latin, and comparative mythology. He is the author of Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus (Routledge), has edited an abridgment of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for Random House, and translated Andreas Mehl’s Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development into English for Wiley-Blackwell. He is presently working on night as a legal, religious, and social context in Roman culture. Email: muellerh@union.edu.

Stacie Raucci, Associate Professor of Classics. Professor Raucci came to Union in 2004. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is the author of Elegiac Eyes: Vision in Roman Love Elegy (Lang Classical Studies, 2011), and of articles on the reception of the ancient world in popular culture. Her teaching spans from Greek and Latin language and literature to courses in translation on sex and gender in antiquity, the ancient world in film, and Roman topography. Email: rauccis@union.edu.

Jeannette Sargent, Adjunct Instructor in Classics. Dr. Sargent earned her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation on Ovid's Heroides. Her course offerings have included Latin language, as well as courses in translation in ancient epic, classical mythology, and ancient drama. Email: sargentj@union.edu.

Marianne V. Snowden, Office Manager for the Departments of Classics and Philosophy. Early in her career, she studied ancient Greek so that she could learn to type it properly. Computers have eliminated that particular task, but we still keep her busy, and she keeps us on track! Email: snowdenm@union.edu.

James Tan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics. Professor Tan studied ancient history at the University of Sydney before moving to New York where he received a doctorate in classical studies from Columbia University. His research concentrates on the political and economic history of the Roman Republic, and particularly on the fiscal sociology of Rome in its greatest period of expansion. Prof. Tan teaches Latin as well as an array of courses on ancient history and Greco-Roman civilization. He is also assistant coach of Union's rugby team. Email: tanj@union.edu.

Mark Toher, Frank Bailey Professor of Classics. Professor Toher came to Union in 1983 and has his B.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University and a B.A. degree from the University of Oxford. He has taught a wide range of courses in Greek and Roman literature and in Greek and Roman history. He has frequently been Faculty Director of Union's Term Abroad program in Athens, Greece. His research interests are in the areas of Greek and Roman history and historiography and he has published a number of articles and co-edited two books on topics in those fields. He has recently completed a text with commentary on the Life of Augustus by Nicolaus of Damascus. He has been a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and the recipient of a Research Fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities. Email: toherm@union.edu.

Tarik Wareh, Assistant Professor of Classics since 2005, focuses on Greek literature and language from Homer to Aristotle, occasionally slipping over to the dark side to teach subjects from Petronius to Medieval Latin. Future course plans include Greek drama in performance, ancient medical and biological thought, and the New Testament. He has advised student research projects on Thucydides, lyric poetry, ancient mathematics, the Persian Empire, suicide, and the computer analysis of Greek texts. His first book, The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers, will be published in 2012 by Harvard University Press in the Hellenic Studies series. It is a study of the literary culture of the schools of philosophy and rhetoric in which the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates took shape. Email: wareht@union.edu.