Faculty

• Biblical and Early Jewish Literature
• Early Jewish Mysticism
• Enochic Literature
• Near-Eastern and Biblical Mythology
• Gender/Women: Biblical/Post-Biblical Traditions
• Receptions of Biblical Narratives

• imperial Latin literature especially epic, Roman tragedy, Roman satire, panegyric;
• reception of Roman antiquity;
• translation studies;
• interface between literature, rhetoric and philosophy

• Archaeology of "Greater Mesopotamia" (ancient Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey)
• Ancient Near Eastern urban society and urban collapse
• History of archaeogical exploration in Mesopotamia, particularly in the early 20th century
• Orientalism and archaeology
• Pottery and Bronze Age Chronologies
• Iron Age Syria

• using material culture to give bigger and more complex historical accounts of the ancient Greeks, especially the relations between homeland and overseas regions, the variety of Greek civilization, and intercultural contact between Greeks and non-Greeks.
• Western Greeks and pre-Roman Italy from the Early Iron Age to early Hellenistic periods,...

• Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy
• Neoplatonism and the Greek commentators on Plato and Aristotle
• Greek language and literature
• Educational technology

• Ptolemaic Royal Titulature, 
• Social History of the Hellenistic World, 
• Relations between Indigenous and Greco-Roman populations in Antiquity, 
• Relation between Ancient and New World culture, 
• in particular parallels between Native Egyptian and First Nations culture in terms of law, language and colonialism.

• the history and theory of ancient and modern translation
• Cicero
• history of classical reception, especially among the non-elite of the 18th and 19th century
• the history of the book

Hector Williams directs UBC's archaeological excavations at Mytilene and Stymphalos and is also publishing material from our excavations at Anemurium.