Since its foundation in 1876, the Johns Hopkins University's mission has included both teaching and research. The Department of Classics has always played a leading role in this mission. It was at Johns Hopkins that the first modern Classics department was organized, inspired by the most effective model of scholarship at the time--the German seminar, which combined teaching with research. Today, the Classics department seeks to maintain and enhance this tradition of leadership and innovation. Members of the current faculty are highly interdisciplinary. We combine philological, historical, and iconographcial, and comparative methods in our investigations of the cultures, broadly conceived, of ancient Greece and Rome. The graduate program reflects these emphases. It combines the rigorous study of language and literature, history, and art and archaeology, with the aim of producing broad, versatile scholars who have a holistic view of the ancient cultures and of the evidence by which those cultures are comprehended. The Classics department enjoys close ties with several local and regional institutions whose missions include the study of the ancient world: the Walters Art Museum, with its world-class collection of antiquities and manuscripts; the Baltimore Museum of Art, with its Roman mosaics; and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. The department is a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the American Academy in Rome, and the International Center for Classical Studies in Rome. The department also has a significant collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, housed in the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Collection (shared with Near Eastern Studies). Finally, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library has broad and deep holdings in the various fields of classical antiquity. |
