Faculty
2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR
Ian Sutherland, Professor-in-Charge:
Professor Sutherland discovered an interest in ancient history and archaeology when traveling around the Mediterranean region with his family as a youth. He earned the PhD in Classical Studies at Duke in 1990, studying Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Since 1994 he has been at Gallaudet University, where he is currently Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages. He is also Research Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.
Prof. Sutherland has been engaged in excavations and other research at Pompeii and other sites around the Bay of Naples since 1983, and presents papers at archaeological conferences both in the United States and abroad. Since 2005 he is co-director of field operations for the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation, an Italian-American partnership that works to expand the archaeological zone of Stabiae, a Roman town on the Bay of Naples that was buried by the same volcanic eruption that covered Pompeii.
Prof. Sutherland is an alumnus of the ICCS in Rome, and fondly recalls that semester as the high point of his undergraduate years. As an enthusiastic proponent of international academic experiences, he has led twenty-five study abroad programs for various universities and institutions since 1993. In addition to Classics, Prof. Sutherland is interested in developing best practices for the teaching of foreign languages to the deaf, and has co-authored a book on foreign language learning for disabled students.
Marco Zangari, Assistant Professor:
Marco Zangari received his BA from New York University, Classical Languages, in 1995 and his MA and PhD from the University of Washington, Classics, in 1999 and 2005 respectively. He was most recently a visiting assistant professor at Whitman College. Before his arrival at Whitman, he was a visiting assistant professor at University of Puget Sound. His work focuses on Latin literature, cultural history, and aesthetics. In addition to articles on Cicero, he is revising two manuscripts: one on In Verrem and another on conceptions of food in the first century BCE.
