Directory
The Marco Institute is home to one of the largest premodern studies communities in the United States. We have over fifty affiliated faculty members and two dozen graduate students from over a dozen departments and programs around the College of Arts and Sciences and beyond. Our community boasts specialists from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, and from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Middle East, East Asia, and the Americas.
Faculty
Leadership
Anne-Hélène Miller
Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute; Associate Professor of French
Department of World Languages & Cultures
Phone: 865-974-9136
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Gina Di Salvo
Associate Director of Marco Institute; Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy
Department of Theatre
Phone: (865) 974-4069
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Ryan T. Goodman
Program Manager
Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Phone: 865-974-1859
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Active Faculty
Randi Marie Addicott
Senior Lecturer
Department of English
Phone: 865-974-3729
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Salvador Bartera
Assistant Professor
Classics
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Robert Bast
Associate Professor
Department of History
Phone: 865-974-7083
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Kristen Block
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Megan Bryson
Lindsay Young Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Manuela Ceballos
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Gosia Citko-DuPlantis
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures
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Jennifer Collins-Elliott
Senior Lecturer
Department of Religious Studies
Phone: (865) 974-6251
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Stephen A. Collins-Elliott
Associate Professor; Acting Department Head
Department of Classics
Phone: 865-974-5404
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Caitlin Dahl
Assistant Professor of French
Department of World Languages & Cultures
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Erin Darby
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Phone: 865-974-6977
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Robert Darby
Lecturer
School of Art (Art History)
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J.P. Dessel
Assistant Professor of History
Department of History
Phone: 865-974-9872
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Gina Di Salvo
Associate Director of Marco Institute; Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy
Department of Theatre
Phone: (865) 974-4069
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Mary Dzon
Associate Professor
Department of English
Phone: 865-974-6948
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Matthew Gillis
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Phone: 865-974-5559
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Rachel May Golden
Associate Professor of Musicology
College of Music
Phone: 865-974-8054
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Hilary Havens
Lindsay Young Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
Department of English
Phone: 865-974-6958
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Heather Hirschfeld
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
Department of English
Phone: 865-974-6961
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Gregor A. Kalas
Associate Professor of Architecture; Past Riggsby Director
School of Architecture, College of Architecture & Design
Phone: 865-974-3273
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Gregory Kaplan
Professor of Spanish, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Phone: 865-974-6993
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Charles Kuper
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
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Jacob Latham
Associate Professor
Department of History
Phone: 865-974-5406
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Michael Lovell
Teaching Assistant Professor
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Scott MacKenzie
Teaching Associate Professor
Department of English
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Annachiara Mariani
Assistant Professor of Italian
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Phone: 865-974-7158
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Harrison Meadows
Associate Professor
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Phone: 865-974-0585
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Samantha Murphy
Teaching Professor
Department of English
Phone: 865-974-2687
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Michael Naparstek
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Stefanie Ohnesorg
Associate Professor of German
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Phone: 865-974-7098
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R.D. Perry
Associate Professor
Department of English
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Sean Roberts
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Art (Art History)
Phone:
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Charles Sanft
Professor
Department of History
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Guy Sechrist
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of History
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J. Clerk Shaw
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Phone: 865-974-3255
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Christine Shepardson
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Department of Religious Studies
Phone: 865-974-2181
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Steven Smith
Dean of Libraries
Department of History
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Phillip Stokes
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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Jason Stubblefield
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of History
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Klayton Tietjen
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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Aleydis Van De Moortel
Chancellor’s Professor, Lindsay Young Professor, and Head of Classics
Department of Classics
Phone: 865-974-8279
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Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
Department of English
Phone: 865-974-6937
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Kelli Wood
Assistant Professor
School of Art
Phone: (865) 974-4267
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Sarah Yancey
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of English
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Duygu Yıldırım
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Felege-Selam Yirga
Assistant Professor
Department of History
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Emeriti Faculty
Paul Barrette
Professor of French Emeritus
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Jane Bellamy
Professor Emerita
Department of English
Anne Bridges
Associate Professor & Librarian, History and Medieval Studies Librarian
University Libraries
Palmira Brummett
Professor of History Emerita
Department of History
Thomas E. Burman
Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame
Department of History
D. Allen Carroll
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Sheldon Cohen
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Bryant Creel
Professor of Spanish Emeritus
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Salvatore DiMaria
Professor Italian Emeritus
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Millie Gimmel
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Rosalind W. Gwynne
Professor Emerita
Department of Religious Studies
Dottie Habel
Professor Emerita
School of Art
Thomas J. Hefferman
Kenneth Curry Professor in the Humanities Emeritus
Department of English
Laura Howes
Professor Emerita
Department of English
Maura K. Lafferty
Medieval Latin Advisor
The Marco Institute
Miriam Levering
Professor Emerita
Department of Religious Studies
Roy Liuzza
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Department of English
Jeff Mellor
Professor of German Emeritus
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Amy Neff
Associate Professor of Art History
School of Art
Robert E. Stillman
Professor
Department of English
David W. Tandy
Professor Emeritus
Department of Classics
Joseph Trahern
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
Shaina Anderson
Humanities Librarian
University Libraries
Phone: 865-974-4351
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Jed Diamond
Associate Professor
Phone: 865-974-7068
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Jennifer Donley
Director of Support Services
Arts and Sciences Administration
Phone: 865-974-8899
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Alan Rutenberg
Director, Proposal Development
Office of Research
Phone: 865-974-8686
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Hannah Schmidt
Arts and Humanities Grants Liaison
Office of Research
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Virginia Stormer
Assistant Director for Experiential Learning
Teaching and Learning Innovation
email
John Zomchick
Provost
Office of the Provost
Phone: 865-974-6152
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