Classics Faculty
Chair
Professor
Email: mercadoa@grinnell.edu
Part of what attracted Angelo Mercado as a college freshman to Classical Latin was the language鈥檚 antiquity. It didn鈥檛 take long for Angelo to fall in love with its sound and rhythm. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from different languages, embracing Greek and languages of...
Associate Professor
Email: cumminsm@grinnell.edu
Monessa Cummins received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on Greek epinician poetry, a type of lyric poetry composed in praise of victors at ancient athletic games. In particular she studies this poetry within its historical and archaeological context. In...
Assistant Professor
Email: dixondus@grinnell.edu
Dustin Dixon teaches courses on the literature and culture of ancient Greece as well as Greek and Latin courses from the elementary to the advanced levels. He regularly teaches first-year Greek, and his past courses have focused on ancient drama; Athenian political culture; classical mythology...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: lalondg@grinnell.edu
Gerald V. Lalonde is Professor Emeritus of Classics. He has been a long-time member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and a frequent research fellow at the School. His published scholarship has been chiefly in the fields of Greek epigraphy and Athenian...