“Students in my courses step into the wonderful world of Greek and Roman gods, heroes, poets, and writers. They learn what the Greeks and Romans believed in, how they spoke and lived, and how we today can apply the best of their discoveries.”
Nikola Golubovic
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
My courses equip students with core academic and professional skills. Even more importantly, they instill habits and attitudes such as attention to detail, persistence, patience, and learning from one’s own mistakes. This sets up students for success whether they join the workforce right after graduation or go on to pursue professional or graduate degrees.
Classics is all about communication, and I am thrilled to teach my students how to analyze writing and speech, how to identify arguments, and how to be succinct and effective writers and speakers. Doing some of this in another language (ancient Greek or Latin) is an added bonus!
Why I Do What I Do
I fell in love with the classics after taking Latin in high school, and I’ve been studying Greece and Rome ever since. I also believe in the transformative power of education, so I started investigating how the Romans educated their young people.
Currently Working On
Learning Latin and linguistics enabled me to co-author a book on Vlach, a language I grew up speaking. This is a small, rapidly disappearing Romance language (meaning it developed from Latin over a very long time) spoken in the Balkans. I was very proud to help save it from extinction.