Graduate School Information Departments and Programs Opportunities for research available to graduate students in each department and program are outlined in the following pages. See the office address listed at the end of each description. The Graduate School forwards the name of each person who requests an application to the applicant's program of interest. Fields of study. Major areas of art history from ancient to contemporary.
Faculty members use various art historical methods in approaching their research.
Greek and Latin languages and literatures, ancient history, art and archaeology, philosophy, and religion. Research interests of the faculty include history of early Greece and the Near East, historiography, Graeco-Roman domestic architecture, archaic Greek poetry, Augustan poetry, Roman law, Roman social history, early Christianity, and the Classical tradition in America. There are also opportunities for on-site archaeological experience. In addition to the resources of the Central and Divinity Libraries, the department provides graduate students a departmental seminar room with a basic research collection. Comparative and interdisciplinary study of literature, literary theory, and aesthetics.