Expertise

His research interests include rhetorical and poetic theory, ancient and modern; Roman oratory; modern screen media and the classics; and French and Italian authors of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Honors

Book of Great Teachers
Purdue University
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy
Purdue University
Indiana Classics Teacher of the Year Award
Indiana Classics Conference/IFLTA
Excellence in Teaching Award
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Purdue University)
Editor's Choice: Top of the List, 2001 (for the book *Classical Greek Civilization (800-330 BCE)* (Detroit: Gale Group, 2000))
BOOKLIST Magazine
Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics
American Philological Association
Outstanding Teaching Award
School of Liberal Arts (Purdue University)

Organizational Affiliations

A&S - Classics, College of A&S, Schools & Colleges, University of Miami

College of A&S, Schools & Colleges, University of Miami

Education

Classical Philology
1985, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ancient Greek
1981, MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ancient Greek
1977, AB, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill