Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to George W. Bush

List of Contributors

219 List of Contributors JOHN MILTON COOPER, JR. is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. An expert on the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Cooper has written several books examining American history in the early twentieth century, most recently Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). ROBERT F . MADDOX, who passed away in September 2002, was professor of history at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. An expert in twentieth-century American history and in the history of West Virginia, Maddox was the author of books on industrial cartels during World War II and the career of United States senator Harley M. Kilgore. MICHAEL MECKLER is a permanent fellow in the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. A scholar of Roman and medieval history, he has also maintained an active journalism career, serving as a CBS Radio reporter and as a newspaper columnist. Meckler.ClassicalAntiquity 5/25/06 12:07 PM Page 219 220 List of Contributors CARL J. RICHARD is professor of history at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana. His book The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994) won the 1995 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award. NEIL G. ROBERTSON is associate professor of humanities and social sciences at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he also teaches in the affiliated institution Dalhousie University. Robertson has written articles on political philosophy, particularly on Leo Strauss and critiques of modernity. MICHELE VALERIE RONNICK is associate professor of classics, Greek and Latin at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She edited The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An Amercan Journey from Slavery to Scholarship (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005) and has written other publications on the classical tradition. DANIEL P. TOMPKINS is director of the Intellectual Heritage Program and associate professor of classics at Temple University in Philadelphia. An expert on the Greek historian Thucydides, Tompkins has written on a wide variety of topics, including the poetry of Wallace Stevens. LAWRENCE A. TRITLE is professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He has written extensively on Greek history, and he drew upon his experiences both as a scholar and as a Vietnam war veteran in his book From Melos to My Lai: War and Survival (London: Routledge, 2000). CAROLINE WINTERER is assistant professor of history at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She is the author of the award-winning book The Culture of Classicism: Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) and is completing a book on American women and classicism for Cornell University Press. WILLIAM J. ZIOBRO is associate professor of classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he regularly teaches a course on classical America. He also served as secretary-treasurer of the American Philological Association from 1990 to 1997. Meckler.ClassicalAntiquity 5/25/06 12:07 PM Page 220 ...