The Faculty

Josephine Shaya, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., University of Michigan 1988; M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan 1994, 2002.

Josephine Shaya holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan’s Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. She specializes in the archaeology and history of Hellenistic Greece and Rome and teaches courses on Greek and Roman history, women in antiquity, Roman religion, and Latin. She has worked on the excavations of Bir Ftouha in Carthage and on the Kenchreai Cemetery Project 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 the 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 work focuses on priests and identity in Roman Greece.


Telephone: (330) 263-2624
E-mail: jshaya@wooster.edu

 


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