Thomas Banchich, PhDChair, Classics Department
Professor, Departments of Classics and History
Telephone: 888-2724
Email: banchich@canisius.edu
Specialization: Greek and Roman Intellectual History and Historiography; Alexander the Great; Late Antiquity; History of Classical Scholarship.
Current Projects: Translations of and commentaries on fragmentary Greek historians for Brill's New Jacoby; preparation of a grammatical and syntactical commentary on Epictetus' Encheiridion.
Banchich is the recipient of the 2009 Faculty Scholarship Award for his The History of Zonaras: From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great (London and New York: Routledge Press). This award is given to a faculty member who has published outstanding scholarship or other creative works while at Canisius.
Kathryn Williams, PhDAssociate Professor
Office: Churchill Tower 602
Telephone: 888-2740
Email: kathryn.williams@canisius.edu
Education: B.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics, University of Virginia
Specialization: Historiography; Latin Prose; Roman Law and History.
Current Projects: Envoys in the Roman World; Tacitus’ Annals; Cicero’s Correspondence; Cicero’s Pro Cluentio
David Dietz, PhDProfessor Emeritus
Telephone: 888-2723
Email: dietz@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Canisius College; M.A. and Ph.D., Fordham University
Specialization: Greek Drama; Latin Poetry; Vergil; and Myth.
Current Projects: Servius' commentary on Vergil; the use of Classical myth in the 20th century, especially in poetry
David Coffta, PhDAdjunct Professor
Telephone: 888-2767
Email: cofftad@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Canisius College; M.A., Vanderbilt University; completed summer program at the American Academy at Rome; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Specialization: Classical Philology; Roman History of the Late Republic; Horatian Lyric.
Current Projects: Horatian lyric and satire
Angela Fulk, PhDAdjunct Professor
Telephone: 888-5932
Email: fulka@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Northeast Missouri State University (Now Truman State University); M.A. and Ph.D., Miami University
Specialization: Medieval Literature and Biblical Literature.
Current Projects: "'On Anginne': Anglo-Saxon Interpretations of the Book of Genesis."
Madeleine Kaufman, PhDAdjunct Professor
Telephone: 888-5986 or 645-2154 ext 114
Email: mkaufman@acsu.buffalo.edu
Education: B.A. and Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Specialization: Greek Literature; Ancient Rhetoric; Sports and Spectacles in the Ancient World; Women in the Ancient World.
Current Projects: The public world of Athenian women
Robert O'Neill, MAAdjunct Professor
Telephone: 888-5973
Email: oneillr@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Canisius College; M.A., Fordham University
Specialization: Latin Pedagogy; Comparative Literature.
Current Projects: James Joyce and Franz Kafka
Dena BowmanDepartment Secretary
Telephone: 888-2690
Email: bowmand@canisius.edu
Office: Churchill Tower 615