Classics Faculty

Associate Professor
Email: cumminsm@grinnell.edu
Monessa Cummins received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on Greek epinician poetry, a type of lyric poetry composed in praise of victors at ancient athletic games. In particular she studies this poetry within its historical and archaeological context. In...

Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: jamesjes@grinnell.edu
I am a Classicist, historian, and lawyer whose research seeks to illuminate how legal institutions, social forces, and human psychology have interacted over time to shape the dynamic lived reality of law at various times and scales. My first book, Laws of All the Greeks: International Law as Social...

Professor
Emeritus
Gerald V. Lalonde is Professor Emeritus of Classics. He has been a long-time member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and a frequent research fellow at the School. His published scholarship has been chiefly in the fields of Greek epigraphy and Athenian...
Professor
Email: mercadoa@grinnell.edu
Part of what attracted Angelo Mercado as a college freshman to Classical Latin was the language鈥檚 antiquity. It didn鈥檛 take long for Angelo to fall in love with its sound and rhythm. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from different languages, embracing Greek and languages of...
Assistant Professor
Email: vegaalex@grinnell.edu
Alexander Vega鈥檚 research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with an emphasis on philosophy of friendship. He is especially interested in the relationship between friendship and belief in the work of the early Christian philosopher Augustine of Hippo. In such works as On the Usefulness...