Halford W. Haskell, Professor of Classics	Photo: J. Haskell
Chair, Classics Program
Office: MBH 223
Telephone: (512) 863-1554
email: haskell@southwestern.edu

Dr. Haskell's research area is in Greek Bronze Age economy (ca. 1500-1200 B.C., the time of the legendary Trojan War). Through the examination of material remains (pottery, architecture, etc.) one reconstructs production areas and trade routes. These may be correlated with power centers such as Minoan Knossos, with its labyrinthine palace, and Mycenae, home of Agamemnon.

Dr. Haskell is director of a long-term, interdisciplinary pottery analysis project. His principle colleagues are Dr. R. Jones, an archaeological chemist at Glasgow University (chemical analyses of clay fabric and contents), Dr. P. Day, a petrographer at Sheffield University (petrographic analyses of fabric), and Dr. J. Killen, a world authority at Cambridge University on early Greek scripts . Dr. Haskell's specialty is the study of the shape and decoration of the vases, which yield clues regarding origins and trade.

In 1994/95, supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Commission, Dr. Haskell spent a sabbatical year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens conducting field work and library research. Field work and speaking engagements took him to such diverse places as Lund and Goteborg (Sweden), Glasgow and Sheffield (U.K.), Berlin, Bodrum (Turkey), and Sofia and Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria).

Since 1996, Dr. Haskell has participated in the virtual Classics program known as Sunoikisis, initially funded by the Mellon Foundation. The purpose of Sunoikisis is to enable Classicists at institutions like ours to share resources of their programs that are individually small but collectively large. Projects include inter-instutional team-taught courses, establishment of an image archive, databases of various Classics resources, and the like. Fopr more information about this initiative, please see the Sunoikisis page.

Since 1998, Dr. Haskell has participated in the Associated Colleges of the South's excavation and survey project in the Elmali Plain, Turkey. His expertise in pottery studies is directed toward the masses of pottery recovered on the surface as well as from the excavation itself. SU students serve as research associates and are an integral part of the data collection and analysis process.

 

Glenda Warren Carl, Associate Professor of French and Latin
Latin (Petronius specialist)
Office: FWO 318
Telephone: (512) 863-1590
email: carlg@southwestern.edu

Dr. Carl's research is in the area of medieval retellings of the Trojan Story, especially as it appears in the Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure. Medieval European royal houses took pride in tracing their ancestry back to the Trojan refugees, and the Trojan Story consequently was extremely popular. The Roman de Troie alone survives in several manuscripts and was translated into many languages (including Byzantine Greek).

Benoit bases his account on two late Latin forgeries, the chronicles of pseudo-Dares and Dictys. While insisting that his work is a faithful translation of his sources, Benoit vastly expands and rewrites the Latin originals in order to provide the Angevin court of France with political propaganda. Dr. Carl studies some medieval theories of translation which can account for this practice.

Dr. Carl is also one of two bibliographers for the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society. There are also branches in Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Spain, and Switzerland. Dr. Carl is responsible for soliciting abstracts from authors of recently-published articles and books on the Arthurian legend and for writing abstracts herself. These abstracts are published every year in the Bibliographical Bulletin of the Society.

Dr. Carl has particular expertise in the literature and culture of the Neronian period, and has developed an interdisciplinary course on Petronius. She is currently editing a workbook to accompany The Millionaire's Dinner Party by M. G. Balme, a text widely used in intermediate Latin classes.

 

 

Dr. P. Haskell is an expert on Roman provincial architecture, and on Iron Age through Roman pottery of the eastern Mediterranean. She has been a team member of the Associated Colleges of the South's excavation and survey project in the Elmali Plain, Turkey. She has managed the excavation collections, and mentored students in collection management, pottery and small finds recording and analysis, and data management.

Dr. Haskell teaches Classical civilization courses and Latin.