
Books by Classics and Religious Studies Faculty
Our award-winning faculty have extensive expertise in our fields. We have published multiple referred articles in top-rated journals. Since 2017, we have accounted for 16 single- or co-authored books among us.
Recent Books Authored and Edited by Our Faculty

Criticizing Science (opens in a new window)
Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
Johns Hopkins University Press 2024

The Complete Works of Claudian (opens in a new window)
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
Routledge 2023

Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice (opens in a new window)
Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond
Routledge 2022

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9 (opens in a new window)
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Oxford University Press 2022

Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind (opens in a new window)
The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath
Palgrave Pivot, 2021

Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought (opens in a new window)
Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life
Cambridge University Press, 2021

The Other Rama (opens in a new window)
Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma
SUNY Press 2020

Bollywood Horrors (opens in a new window)
Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel (opens in a new window)
Resistance and Appropriation
Routledge, 2020

Cato the Younger (opens in a new window)
Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic
Oxford University Press 2019

Silius Italicus, Punica 2 (opens in a new window)
Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Oxford University Press 2017

Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire
University of North Carolina Press, 2015

The Head Beneath the Altar (opens in a new window)
Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice
Michigan University Press 2014

Identity and Religion in Palestine (opens in a new window)
The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories
Princeton University Press 2012
Additional Books by Classics & Religious Studies Faculty
- Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Neil Bernstein
- In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Neil Bernstein
- Christianization and communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch (opens in a new window). Cambridge University Press, 2006. Jaclyn Maxwell