Department of Classics and Humanities

College of Arts & Letters
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182-6064

Phone 619-594-5186
Fax 619-594-1004

Arts & Letters 662

Faculty

Current Faculty

Brad L. Cook, Assistant Professor Classics, Classics Adviser (2005; PhD, University of Washington): Greek biography, classical archaeology, women in antiquity. AL-632, 594-4709, bcook@mail.sdsu.edu, Web page.

Kerri J. Hame, Lecturer in Classics (2006; PhD, Bryn Mawr College): Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman religion and archaeology. AL-669, 594-5177, khame@mail.sdsu.edu.

Maria Rybakova, Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Humanities Adviser (2007, PhD, Yale University), European humanities, Latin, classical literature; author of Anna Grom and Her Ghost and Losers Brotherhood. AL-628, 594-4707, mrybakov@mail.sdsu.edu.

Erich W. Skwara, Professor of Humanities and German, Humanities Adviser (1986; PhD, State University of New York at Albany): European humanities, comparative and German literature; author of Schwarze Segelschiffe, Eis auf der Brcke, Pest in Siena, Bankrottidylle, Die heimlichen Knige, Nach dem Norden, and Versuch einer Heimkehr, and translator of Rousseaus Du contrat social; awarded Germanys 2002 Hermann Lenz Prize for Literature and an Austrian national professorship (Berufstitel Professor). AL-634, 594-6488, eskwara@mail.sdsu.edu, poetskwara@aol.com. Professor Skwara will be directing the Paris Semester in spring 2008.

Joseph A. Smith, Associate Professor of Classics, Department Chair, Umanisti Adviser (1997; PhD, University of Southern California): Greek and Latin, Greek and Roman. AL-662A, 594-5186, 594-1526, jasmith@mail.sdsu.edu, Web page.

Emeritus Faculty

Charles H. Cutter, Associate Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Political Science (1967; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles): modern European humanities, African humanities, art and politics; editor of Africa, an annual report on the politics and economics of the nations of Africa. chcutter@cox.net.

Robert E. Eisner, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Humanities (1970; PhD, Stanford University): mythology, Greek and comparative literature, classical tradition; author of The Road to Daulis: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Classical Mythology and Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece. reisner@mail.sdsu.edu.

E. N. Genovese, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Humanities (1970; PhD, Ohio State University): mythology, Latin poetry, European and American humanities; author of Mythology: Texts and Contexts and Quo usque? A College Latin Course. AL-630, 594-0818, genovese@mail.sdsu.edu, Web page.

Charles D. Hamilton, Professor Emeritus of History and Classics (1974; PhD, Cornell University): Greek history and historiography, Greek; author of Spartas Bitter Victories: Politics and Diplomacy in the Corinthian War and Agesilaus and the Failure of Spartan Hegemony and editor of Polis and Polemos.

Edward W. Warren, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics (1963; PhD, Johns Hopkins University). Greek, classical philosophy; translator of Porphyry the Phoenicians Isagoge. ewarr1@msn.com.