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Faculty of Classics

 

Name Office phone Email address Job titles
Dr Daniel Hanigan drh56@cam.ac.uk drh56@cam.ac.uk Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College
Professor Philip Hardie 01223 761545 prh1004@cam.ac.uk Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Honorary Professor of Latin
Dr Myrto Hatzimichali 01223 747301 (College) / 335160 (Faculty) mh303@cam.ac.uk Senior Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Philosophy), Fellow and Director of Studies at Homerton College
Jack Hawkins jdh69@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Dr Elena Guisti, College: St John's, Title of Thesis: Lucan’s Poetics of Dissolution
Patrick Hayes pwh33@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne, College: Darwin, Title of Thesis: A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
Martha Heemskerk mh2020@cam.ac.uk Museum Education & Outreach Coordinator
Professor John Henderson 01223 331317 jgh1000@cam.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Classics, Fellow of King's College.
Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir shh35@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson, College: Jesus College, Title of Thesis: qualis homo, talis oratio: Language choices, self-positioning and social background in Latin letters from the late Republic
Professor David Holton 01223 335048 dwh11@cam.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek
Professor Geoff Horrocks 01223 335164 (Faculty) / 338696 (College) gch1000@cam.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Comparative Philology, Fellow of St John's College
Professor Richard Hunter 01223 355150 (Faculty) / 338410 (College) rlh10@cam.ac.uk Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Fellow of Trinity College
Mr Henry Hurst hrh21@cam.ac.uk Emeritus Reader in Classics, Fellow of Churchill College

Latest news

Research vacancies: Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS)

27 August 2026

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you will anchor a new phase of activities for the Lab focusing on ancient entanglements in the broadest senses. As well as...

Professor Patricia Easterling

19 August 2026

The Faculty is very sad to report that our dear colleague Professor Patricia (Pat) Easterling has died, at the age of 92. She was Fellow of Newnham College from 1958 to 1987 and Professor of Greek at University College London from 1987 to 1994, when she returned to Cambridge as the 36 th (and first female) Regius Professor...

Cambridge Classicists on Nolan's Odyssey

17 July 2026

Today marks the highly anticipated theatrical release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey . Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the film is generating lots of discussion across the global classics community. As people everywhere head to cinemas, academics from the Faculty are already exploring how...

Script Keepers Network Wins Cultural Collaboration Award

28 July 2026

The Script Keepers Network —co-led by Pippa Steele (Faculty of Classics and the VIEWS Project ) and Tim Brookes ( Endangered Alphabets Project )—has been awarded the prestigious NCACE Emerging Academic Cultural Collaboration Award by the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange . The award recognises outstanding...