Faculty and Staff

Archaeology  Faculty

Rebecca Benefiel

Rebecca Benefiel

Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics

Benefiel teaches classics and Latin courses such as Pompeii, Classics in a Digital Age, Roman Religion, and The Poetry of Ovid. Her research focuses on Pompeii, Latin epigraphy, and Roman social and cultural history.

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Donald Gaylord

Donald Gaylord

Research Archaeologist and Instructor of Anthropology

Gaylord teaches courses in archaeology including Field Methods in Archaeology and Discovering W&L’s Origins Using Historical Archaeology. He researches the anthropological analysis of property ownership and land use.

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Sascha L. Goluboff

Sascha L. Goluboff

Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Goluboff teaches courses such as Food, Culture, and Society, and Gender and Sexuality. Her research focuses on the anthropology of emotion in a variety of geographic and historic contexts.

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Melissa R. Kerin

Melissa R. Kerin

Professor of Art History

Kerin teaches courses in South Asian and East Asian art and architecture. Her research focuses on the intricate and multifaceted relationships between art and identity formation, cultural memory and religious praxis.

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Michael Laughy

Michael Laughy

Boetsch Term Associate Professor of Classics and Department Head

Laughy teaches courses in ancient Greek religion, history, art and archaeology. His research interests are Greek religion, Greek epigraphy and ancient Athens.

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