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Dr. Eric Casey
Professor Casey is the Associate Professor of Classical Studies who joined the department in 2000. He earned his B.A. at Haverford College and his M.A. and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. In his teaching and research, Professor Casey focuses on Greek cultural history and Latin literature and poetics. Professor Casey has published on strategies of commemoration in ancient Greek funerary inscriptions and the threshold between the living and the dead. He has articles on the Great Library at Alexandria and connections between ancient Greek mystery cults and the Freemasons. As a more long-term project, Professor Casey is working on a cultural history of the ancient Greek philosophical schools in Athens. Professor Casey is also working on a follow-up to the Alexandrian Library article, this
time focusing more on the impulse to collect texts and territory in antiquity.
He was the recipient of Sweet Briar's Teacher of the Year Award for 2005-2006. This award is voted on by the student body each year. In January of 2008, Dr. Casey also won the American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching at the College Level Award. For an SBC News article
on this award, click here (PDF format) and for the APA's own coverage of this event, click here.
View his curriculum vitae.
Professor Anna Moore
Anna Moore has been teaching Classics at Sweet Briar since 1997. She majored in Classics and Creative Writing at George Washington University and did her graduate work in Classical Archaeology at Princeton. She attended the American School in Athens, and spent two years as a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome where she did research on Greek architecture in Sicily. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution classifying Near Eastern pottery and analyzing the composition of pottery from the Dominican Republic to identify workshops. Professor Moore teaches Roman and Greek Archaeology and Mythology as well as Latin. In her courses and independent study programs she incorporates and synthesizes literary, art historical, and archaeological material and uses the College's classical collection and Greek and Roman coin collection. Professor Moore encourages students to study abroad and helps them find programs in Italy and Greece suited to their interests. She lives on a working farm near campus.