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Faculty
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Katerina Zacharia, PhD
Katerina Zacharia is an Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. She holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Athens, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from University College London. Her main interests and publications are in Greek literature, especially tragedy, comedy, and epic, and its reception, esp. film; the social and political history of archaic and classical Greece; and Greek ethnicity. She is the author of Converging Truths: Euripides'’ Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition (Leiden: Brill 2003), and editor and major contributor for Hellenisms: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (Aldershot: Ashgate, September 2008).
William Fulco, SJ, PhD
William Fulco, S.J., is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Loyola Marymount University. In addition to his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from Yale University, he holds graduate degrees in Classics, Philosophy and Theology. His interests encompass ancient languages, archaeology and Biblical studies, all of which he teaches at LMU. He has published widely in reconstructive Afroasiatic linguistics, Canaanite religion and mythology, Old Testament studies, and Classical Numismatics. He curates the Jesuit archaeology museum in Jerusalem, and oversees the Archaeology Center and Library at LMU which he established in 1998.
Matthew Dillon, PhD
Prof. Matt Dillon received his BA in Classics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1974, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1984. After a short stint at Smith College, he joined the LMU faculty in 1987. His research interests have grown from early publications on Greek tragedy and comedy to include connections between eastern and western traditions, the pronunciation of ancient Greek and Latin, and, most recently, survey archaeology in Rough Cilicia (southern Turkey). In addition, he is working on a new Latin textbook entitled In Africa: Roots of Language and Civilization. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 2007. Matt is also active in faculty governance: twice president of the Faculty Senate, he is now chair of the Core Curriculum Committee, which is proposing a new core for the University starting in 2011.
Ethan Adams, PhD
Ethan Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He holds his B.A. in Classics from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Washington, Seattle. His main interests are in Roman literature, especially poetry, and wrote his dissertation on the nature of the gods in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He is also interested in Roman topography, and has taught in Rome several times. He is currently working on a book about Lucan’s Pharsalia.
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Wafik Nasry, SJ, PhD
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Fr. Nasry is a member of the California Province of the Society of Jesus. He holds undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy from St. John’s College Seminary. His graduate degrees include a M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, a Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies, from the Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica, as well as a Licentiate in Missiology, from the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. His Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies was earned at the Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica. Currently, he teaches in the departments of Classics and Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. His interests include the study of languages; the influence of religious beliefs on individual and group behavior and cultures—especially, in socio-political-economic areas; Christian-Muslim inter-religious dialogue; and the study of Ancient Arab-Christian manuscripts.
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