Classics students on a study abroad trip to Greece.

PhD in Classics

Prepare for a career in research and academia

MA in Classics

Specialize in Latin or Ancient History

BA in Classics

Explore the riches of Greek and Roman culture

Minor in Classics

Complement a major in English, art, history and more

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Welcome! The UB Department of Classics is the only classics department in the SUNY system, and has long been home to innovative research and teaching across the discipline. From archaeology and language to history and literature, come study the rich cultural heritage of classical civilizations in a friendly, supportive program offering many exciting opportunities for research and travel. 

Arethusa Journal
IEMA
Tesserae Project

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Classics students at the Colosseum.
Welcome, future students!

Studying classics will prepare you to be an active, purposeful citizen of the world. Find out how!

Meet Our Faculty

  • David A. Teegarden
    7/12/18
    Research Interests: Ancient Greek democracy; classical and Hellenistic Greek history
  • Bradley A. Ault
    1/5/22
    Research Interests: Greek, Cypriot, and Roman art and archaeology; houses and households; cities and urbanism, agriculture and the ancient countryside
  • Timothy Boyd
    9/27/18
    Research Interests: Classical epic, mythology, and traditional oral narrative; classical language instruction; medieval and modern Irish literature; history of archaeology on the Western Coast of Turkey
  • Alessandro Sebastiani
    9/7/22
    Research Interests: Roman archaeology of the Mediterranean; Roman economy; Roman religion; Roman to early medieval countryside; Roman to early medieval cities; landscape archaeology; medieval archaeology; medieval pottery; GIS and IT sciences applied to archaeology
  • John Dugan
    7/12/18
    Research Interests: Latin literature of the late Republic and Augustan period; ancient rhetoric and oratory; ancient and modern literary criticism and aesthetics
  • Jackie Murray
    5/18/23
    Research Interests: Ancient Greek Language and Literature, especially of the Hellenistic Poetry, its reception of Archaic and Classical poetry and its influence on Latin poetry and Greek literature of the Imperial period. Race studies and the Classics, Black Classicisms, and the reception of Greek and Roman Classics in African American and Afro-Caribbean literature.
  • Neil Coffee
    7/12/18
    Research Interests: Latin literature; epic; gift theory; digital classics; conversational Latin
  • Roger Woodard
    1/4/21
    Research Interests: Greek literature; Roman, Greek, and Indo-European religion and myth; anthropology of Greece and Rome; Greek alphabet and other writing systems; Indo-European linguistics; the interaction between the Near East and Greece
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Travel and Research Abroad

Students and faculty working on the IMPERO project.
Where will you go?

Our students regularly travel to Greece, Italy, Turkey and Israel to assist with faculty research projects.

Student Testimonials

"I am forever grateful to the University at Buffalo's Department of Classics for its amazing professors, for the close-knit community it provided, and for the opportunities my degree has given me." – Gabriel Malone, BA