Classical Studies Faculty

Monica Florence - Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
(330) 263-2352 / Email

B.A. Reed 1994; Ph.D. Boston University 2004.

Monica Florence is an assistant professor of classical studies at The College of Wooster where she joined the faculty in 2007.

She received her B.A. in Classics from Reed College (1994) and her Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Boston University (2004). Her research interests include Greek drama, classical mythology, gender and ethnicity, as well as Roman Satire and Epigrams.

She has previously been an instructor at the University of Southern Maine, and just prior to Wooster, a senior lecturer at the University of Rochester.

She completed her dissertation on “Hellenic Identities in Old Comedy”.

She has multiple publications including such articles as:

“Hermaphroditus in Greco-Roman Myth: Lessons and Hypotheses for Intersex Today”
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, with Nicholas Jospe, M.D., 17.12
(2004): 1471-1479.
“Wild Neighbors: Megarian Ethnic Identity in Fifth-Century Athenian Comedy”
Syllecta Classica 14 (2003): 37-58.

Current courses taught by Professor Florence include: Classical Mythology and Ancient Epic 220, Gender and Sex in Antiquity 200, Greek 101, 102, Greek 200, and Latin 250.

Josephine Shaya - Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
(330) 263-2624 / Email

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Michigan 1988, 1994, 2001.

Josephine Shaya specializes in Roman history and archaeology, Latin epigraphy, and the history of museums and collecting. She earned her Ph.D. in the Interdepartmental Program of Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. She teaches courses on Greek and Roman history, gender in the ancient world, religion in the ancient world, the city of Pompeii, and Latin literature. She participated in the excavations of the early Christian basilica at Bir Ftouha in Carthage and of the Kenchreai Cemetery outside of Corinth. She has helped prepare exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Carthage, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Her articles on this history of early twentieth century archaeology in Palestine and on the Greek temple as a museum have appeared in Leroy Waterman and the University of Michigan’s Excavations at Sepphoris and the American Journal of Archaeology. Her current research focuses on historical inscriptions and on questions of how and why the use, display, and location of public writing changed over time during the Roman Empire.

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Michigan 1988, 1994, 2001.