T. Davina McClain, Director

Associate Professor of Classics

I am a native Texan, born in Ft. Worth and raised in Shady Shores. As an undergraduate, I earned teacher's certification (Secondary Ed.) and separate degrees in Classical Studies and History at Trinity University (1986) in San Antonio, TX. From there I ventured north to Indiana where I earned an M.A. in Latin (1988) and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies at Indiana University--Bloomington (1994). After teaching one year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, I escaped the snow to teach in the Classical Studies at Loyola University New Orleans. After 11 years at Loyola, I was lucky enough to be offered the opportunity to come to the Scholars' College!

My research interests focus on the depictions of women in the writings of the Roman historian Livy, a project which will become a book (soon, I hope). I have also written on the lives of women on the Greek island of Delos, the need for the humanities to address its role in this ever-changing world, the purpose of phallic images in the ancient world, a Hopi myth called Field Mouse Goes to War, and the struggle for power between sisters in Livy's history.

If you want to learn more, here is my curriculum vitae.

Feel free to come by my office at Morrison 110 or e-mail me at mcclaind@nsula.edu.