Thomas Banchich, PhD
Department Chairperson
Telephone: 888-2724
Email: banchich@canisius.edu
Education: B.A. and M.A. in History, Bowling Green State University; Ph.D. in Classics, State University of New York at BuffaloDavid Coffta, PhD
Specialization: Greek and Roman Intellectual History and Historiography; Greco-Roman Religion; Alexander the Great; Late Antiquity; History of Classical Scholarship
Current Projects: Research on Julian the Apostate; Translation of and Historical Commentary on John Zonaras; Research on Athenian Neoplatonism; Editorial Board of De Imperatoribus Romanis.
Adjunct 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 BuffaloDavid Dietz, PhD
Specialization: Classical Philology; Roman History of the Late Republic; Horatian Lyric
Current Projects: Horatian lyric and satire
Professor Emeritus
Telephone: 888-2723
Email: dietz@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Canisius College; M.A. and Ph.D., Fordham UniversityAngela Fulk
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
Adjunct professor
Telephone: 888-5932
Email: fulka@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Northeast Missouri State University (Now Truman State University); M.A., Miami UniversityMadeleine Kaufman, PhD
Specialization: Medieval Literature and Biblical Literature
Current Projects: "'On Anginne': Anglo-Saxon Intrpretations of the Book of Genesis"
Adjunct 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 BuffaloMr. Robert O'Neill
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
Adjunct professor
Telephone: 888-5973
Email: oneillr@canisius.edu
Education: B.A., Canisius College; M.A., Fordham UniversityKathryn Williams, PhD
Specialization: Latin Pedagogy; Comparative Literature
Current Projects: James Joyce and Franz Kafka
Assistant professor
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