
Faculty and Staff
Archaeology Faculty
Rebecca Benefiel
Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics
- Tucker Hall 105
- Email: benefielr@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8082
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.
Donald Gaylord
Research Archaeologist and Instructor of Anthropology
- Newcomb Hall 204
- Email: gaylordd@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8378
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.
Sascha L. Goluboff
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
- Newcomb Hall 208
- Email: goluboffs@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8807
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.
Melissa R. Kerin
Professor of Art History
- Mattingly House 209
- Email: kerinm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8858
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.
Michael Laughy
Boetsch Term Associate Professor of Classics and Department Head
- Tucker Hall 106
- Email: laughym@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4569
Laughy teaches courses in ancient Greek religion, history, art and archaeology. His research interests are Greek religion, Greek epigraphy and ancient Athens.