Affiliated Faculty

Traci Ardren (Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University) is the editor of Ancient Maya Women and the author of a number of articles on the ancient history of Florida and the Maya world including a recent chapter entitled, "Ancient Maya Religious Practices: Evidence from Excavation, Epigraphy, and Art." She arrived at the University of Miami in 2001 after a fourth season excavating a Classic Maya trade center in Yucatan. In addition to New World prehistory, she is interested in gender, art, architecture, and other forms of symbolic representation.

William Betsch (Ph.D., Roman and Byzantine Art. University of Pennsylvania) is a specialist in the art and architecture of Constantinople, and is currently involved in research on the development of architecture in the classical Greek era. He is one of the more popular lecturers in the university.

Dexter E. Callender (Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University) has studied the Hebrew Bible, ancient Near Eastern history and literature, and myth and myth theory. He is the author of Adam in Myth and History: Ancient Israelite Perspectives on the Primal Human (Harvard Semitic Museum/Eisenbrauns, 2000) and the recipient of the 2000 Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award, and he was the 2001 Panhellenic Association "Professor of the Year."

Simon J. Evnine (Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles) is the author of Donald Davidson (1991 Stanford University Press and Cambridge: Polity Press). He has taught at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he was Assistant Professor since 1996. He has studied at King's College, Bedford College and University College, all of London University. He specializes in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Logic. In particular, his current work concerns the relations between principles governing rational belief and various theses about the nature of the mind. He has also published on Locke, Hume, Freud and Davidson.  

John Fitzgerald (Ph.D., New Testament Studies, Yale University) is the author of two books and editor of four others; he is currently writing a book on Paul. A former visiting professor at both Brown and Yale, he has received a University Freshman Teaching Award and been named Honors Professor of the Year. Professor Fitzgerald was also named "Best Professor" in Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book.

David F. Graf (Ph.D., History, University of Michigan ) is an historian of the Greco-Roman world, specializing in the history and archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, where he has been involved in excavations in Turkey, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. He is the author of Rome and Its Arabian Frontier from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (1997) and more than 50 articles on the classical Mediterranean world. He directs the Saudi Arabian initiative and serves on the Committee on Archaeological Policy for the American Schools of Oriental Research. This past summer he was the Sterling Dow fellow at the Center for Epigraphic and Paleographic Research at Ohio State University preparing several hundred new Greek funerary inscriptions for publication, and later directed excavations in the civic center of the ancient capital of the Nabataeans at Petra in Jordan.

Aristides James Millas (M.A.U.D., Architecture in Urban Design, Harvard University ) is Associate Professor in design with a focus on Historic Preservation and community development issues. He is the co-author and editor of Old Miami Beach , A Case Study in Historic Preservation, July 1976-July 1980 and Coral Gables Miami Riviera: An Architectural Guide.

Nicholas N. Patricios (Ph.D., Architecture & City Planning, University College London) is the author of two books, Kefallinia and Ithaki: A Historical and Architectural Odyssey and Building Marvelous Miami, and the editor of a third book. He was a former visiting professor at both the University of Michigan and UCLA. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study Venetian and British influences on Kefallinian architecture and urban structure and was co-leader of an Earthwatch expedition to Easter Island. His interest is in the interaction of ideological, economic, social, and technological forces with the architecture and urban fabric of different cultures. 

Mihoko Suzuki (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University) is Professor of English and the author of Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic (Cornell UP, 1989, 1993), which received an award from Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly , and Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688 (Ashgate, 2003). She has also published "The Dismemberment of Hippolytus: Humanist Imitation, Shakespearean Translation," on Shakespeare's use of Seneca's Hippolytus in Titus Andronicus and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Chair of the Modern Language Association's Classical and Modern Studies executive committee, she is an invited contributor to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2007), edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis. Her current project, titled Antigone's Example, explores early modern women's political writings in the context of civil war.