Faculty
Degrees: B.A., Queens College (City University of New York): History M.A., M.Phil., PhD., Yale University: Classics
Research Interests:
Religions of the Roman Empire; Roman provincial identities; the art, archaeology, and epigraphy of Roman Dacia; discourses on conquest, power, and identity in the Roman world, as reflected in literary, epigraphic, and visual media.
Teaching interests:
Latin Language and Literature; Roman History and Historiography; Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern Mythology; Classical Tragedy; Greek and Roman Epic Poetry; Women and Gender in the Greco-Roman World.
Edith Pennoyer (Penny) Livermore
About
From the San Francisco area and Napa Valley, California, currently living in Evanston - companioned by four-footed fur folk friends: Achilles, Odysseus, and [of course!] Penelope.
Personal interests include "Connecting": Varieties of humans, languages, cultures; walking (anywhere - wilderness to back alleys); nature in any ilk, "All Creatures Great and Small," sparrow- and squirrel-feeding; weaving and stitching; threads and textiles, ancient and contemporary - including clothing in the ancient world; Baroque music and Broadway musicals; picnics; pots; star-watching; soup kitchens.
Degrees
B.A. Honors (Near Eastern Languages), National University of Ireland, Dublin
Graduate Research (Hebrew and Greek), Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
M.A., Ph.D., (Classics) Northwestern University