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...
Assistant 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...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: lalondg@grinnell.edu
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...
Assistant Professor
Email: loehrreg@grinnell.edu
I am interested in ancient Greek and Roman historiography, ancient popular politics and social movement, emotion and what is often thought of as “subjective” in historical literature, and the application of modern social scientific research to ancient historiography through the shared focus on human...
Assistant Professor
Email: wagnerni@grinnell.edu
Dr. Wagner earned his PhD from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Beginning in the fall of 2019, he started teaching at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where he taught Latin, and courses in translation on Greek and Roman history...