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Recent Publications

Jordan Cohen

"Preserving Culture and Language for the Tohono O’odham: Ofelia Zepeda." In Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America: Strong Women, Resilient Nations, edited by Clifford Trafzer, Donna L. Akers, and Amanda K. Wixon, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, (2022), 129-134.


Lissa Crofton-Sleigh

"Lingua Vitae: Learning Latin in Virtual Reality" (with Special Thanks to Em Dang). Peopling the Past: Blog #123. May 1, 2026. 

Lingua Vitae, a 6-chapter VR language supplement for learning Latin, was developed by a group of students, staff, and faculty at SCU for eight years, and was launched publicly in May 2026. It is available for free download.

Lissa Crofton-Sleigh and Brian Beams (eds.). Past and Future Presence: Approaches to Implementing XR Technology in Humanities and Art Education. Amherst College Press, 2024.

Review of N.B. Pandey. The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography. JRS 110 (2020): 291-292.


John Heath

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths: Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer’s Gods. Routledge, 2019.

“Corinna’s ‘Old Wives’ Tales” HSCP 109 (2017) 83-130.


Nicholas Lindberg

“Better Homes (but no Gardens?): Housing, Horticulture, and Identity in Classical and Hellenistic Greece.” (2026) Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 1-11.

"The Bronze Harvester: Ravaging and Plundering in Greek Warfare.” Classical Quarterly 73.2 (2023), 532-540.


Carolynn Roncaglia

Paul D. Scotton, Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool, and Carolynn Roncaglia. 2022. Corinth XXII. The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Review. 2024. Federica Maria Riso. Roman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy) (Archaeopress, 2023). Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Review. 2023. Mary Beard. Emperor of Rome. Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Liveright, 2023). Current.

Review: 2023. Peter Stothard. Crassus: The First Tycoon (Yale University Press, 2022). Current.

Review. 2023. Natale Barca. Roman Aquileia: the impenetrable city-fortress, a sentry of the Alps (Oxbow 2022). Current World Archaeology 117: 223.


Daniel Turkeltaub

“Homeric Humor,” in The Cambridge Guide to Homer  (Corinne Pache, Casey Dué, and Susan Lupack, eds.). Cambridge, 2020: 149-151.

“Immanence,” in The Cambridge Guide to Homer (Corinne Pache, Casey Dué, and Susan Lupack, eds.). Cambridge, 2020: 165-66.

 

Updated October 2026