Undergraduate Advisors in Classics
| Dr. Michael Shaw |  |
Contact Professor Shaw
Michael Shaw, Associate Professor, received his B.A. and Ph.D. from
the University of Texas at Austin.
His main interest is Greek literature, and his most recent effort is
the introduction and notes for a translation of Sophocles' Electra, which
appeared in 2001 in the series "The Greek Tragedy in New Translations,"
published by Oxford University Press. Prof. Shaw has also taught courses
in Greek Literature and Tragedy, Modern Remakes of Greek Tragedy, and
undergraduate and graduate Greek and Latin.
Professor Shaw also serves as an advisor at the Freshman-Sophomore
Advising Center.
He is involved in historic preservation and has served as president of
the Lawrence Preservation Alliance and the Kansas Preservation Alliance.
| Dr. Philip Stinson |  |
Contact Professor Stinson
Philip Stinson, Assistant Professor of Classics, joined KU's Classics
faculty in 2007. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Ball State
University (1991), a Master in Design Studies (in Architectural History
and Theory) from Harvard University (1995), an MA from the University of
California at Los Angeles (2001), and a PhD in the History of Art and
Classical Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
(2007). Working as an excavator-architect at the excavations of Aphrodisias and Sardis, in western Turkey, recent publications include a chapter on the Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias in Aphrodisias Papers 4 (2008), a chapter on an early Classical painted tomb at Sardis in Love for Lydia, Sardis Report 4 (2008), an exhibition catalogue, The Ancient City of Sardis (2003), drawings in K. Welch's The Roman Amphitheatre from its Origins to the Colosseum (2007), and other articles and exhibitions. Phil is also an expert in the theory and methodology for making digital reconstructions of archaeological sites, esp. Rome; reconstructions he created when at UCLA of monuments in the Roman Forum are now available to the public on Google Earth Ancient Rome 3D. His major interests include Greek and Roman art and architecture, Classical archaeology, digital humanities, and the cultural heritage of archaeological sites.
