Alex Gottesman, Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics. Email: gottesma@union.edu.

Rebecca Kennedy, Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics. Email: kennedyr@union.edu. This is Prof. Kennedy's first year at Union College. She received her MA and PhD at The Ohio State University in 2003 and her BA from UC-San Diego in 1997. Her research interests include tragedy and historiography in 5th century Athens and focus specifically on the influence of the democracy and imperialism on Athenian culture. Her revised dissertation on the role of Athena in Greek tragedy is being published as Athena's Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy and she is currently working on a monograph on the relationship between imperialism and tragedy in Athens. Prof. Kennedy teaches both Greek and Latin as well as the literature and history of Greece and Rome. Before coming to Union, Prof. Kennedy taught at The George Washington University (Classics and History) and Howard University. 

Hans-Friedrich Mueller, William D. Williams Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department. Prof. 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) and has edited an abridgment of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for Random House. Email: muellerh@union.edu.

Stacie Raucci, Assistant Professor of Classics. Prof. Rauccis came to Union in 2004. Prof. Raucci received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A. & Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation is entitlted "Gazing Games: Propertius and the Dynamics of Vision." Prof. Raucci's offerings include courses in Greek and Latin language and literature as well as a course on sex and gender in antiquity. Her research interests focus especially on Latin poetry. 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 Metamorphoses. 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.

Mark Toher, Frank Bailey Professor of Classics.  Prof. 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 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. Prof. Wareh came to Union College in 2005. Prof. Wareh earned his B.A. at Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California -- Berkeley with a dissertation on "Practical Philosophical Politics in Plato and Isocrates." His courses include Greek and Latin language and literature, as well as courses in translation with a special focus on ancient philosophy and political thought. Email: wareht@union.edu.