Classics Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor
Email: dixondus@grinnell.edu
Dustin Dixon teaches courses on the literature and culture of ancient Greece as well as Greek and Latin courses from the elementary to the advanced levels. He regularly teaches first-year Greek, and his past courses have focused on ancient drama; Athenian political culture; classical mythology...
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...
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
The allure of studying a 鈥渄ead鈥 language was too strong for Angelo Mercado to resist as a college freshman. It didn鈥檛 take long for Angelo to fall in love with the sound and rhythm of Classical Latin. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from other 鈥渄ead鈥 languages, embracing Greek...
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...