
Books by Classics and Religious Studies Faculty
Our award-winning faculty have extensive expertise in our fields. We have published multiple referred articles in top-rated journals. Since 2017, we have accounted for 16 single- or co-authored books among us.
Recent Books Authored and Edited by Our Faculty

Poppaea Sabina: The Life and Afterlife of a Roman Empress
Neil Bernstein
Oxford University Press 2025

Criticizing Science
Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
Myrna Perez
Johns Hopkins University Press 2024

The Complete Works of Claudian
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
Neil Bernstein
Routledge 2023
OHIO Today Article

Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice
Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond
Loren Lybarger
Routledge 2022
OHIO Today Article

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Neil Bernstein
Oxford University Press 2022
OHIO Today Article

Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind
The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath
Brian Collins
Palgrave Pivot, 2021

Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought
Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life
Jaclyn Maxwell
Cambridge University Press, 2021

Bollywood Horrors
Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India
Brian Collins
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel
Resistance and Appropriation
William Owens
Routledge, 2020

Cato the Younger
Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic
Fred Drogula
Oxford University Press 2019

Silius Italicus, Punica 2
Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Neil Bernstein
Oxford University Press 2017

Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire
Fred Drogula
University of North Carolina Press, 2015

The Head Beneath the Altar
Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice
Brian Collins
Michigan University Press 2014

Identity and Religion in Palestine
The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories
Loren Lybarger
Princeton University Press 2012
Additional Books by Classics & Religious Studies Faculty
- . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Neil Bernstein
- . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Neil Bernstein
- . Cambridge University Press, 2006. Jaclyn Maxwell