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Faculty of Classics

 

Name Office phone Email address Job titles
Professor Rebecca Laemmle (Lämmle) rl545@cam.ac.uk Professor of Classics (Greek Literature), Director of Postgraduate Admissions in Classics, Fellow & Postgraduate Tutor of Pembroke College
Ashley Lance aerl4@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh, College: Robinson, Title of Thesis: The Souls of Ancient (Greek) Folk: Race in Aristotle
Professor Alessandro Launaro 01223 761004 (Faculty) / 764573 (College) al506@cam.ac.uk Professor of Roman Archaeology , Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Gonville & Caius College
Jessica Lawrence jl841@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard, College: Christ's, Title of Thesis: 21st Century Female Receptions of Homer
Ms Ninetta Leone nl343@cam.ac.uk Affiliated Researcher
Sarah Lewis sml75@cam.ac.uk Project Administrator, CREWS
Hannah Lewis hml53@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Dr Torsten Meißner, College: Pembroke, Title of Thesis: The Ethnobotany of the Bronze Age Aegean
Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd 01223 311545 gel20@hermes.cam.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science
David Luchford dtll2@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Prof. James Warren, College: Corpus Christi, Title of Thesis: Perceptibility, Corporeality, Compositeness, Changeability, Dissolubility, and their Opposites in Plato's Phaedo
Giorgia Lugani gl573@cam.ac.uk Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh, College: Homerton, Title of Thesis (preliminary): Plato through Endoxa: A Philosophical Use of References and Quotations

Latest news

Professor Nicholas Zair awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship

8 January 2026

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Zair has been awarded a 3 year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2026-2029 for his project Understanding Oscan. The Fellowship will allow Nick to spend the next three years working on Oscan, which was spoken widely across Southern Italy between the fifth...

Assistant Professorships in Classics (Greek Literature)

16 December 2025

The Faculty is seeking to appoint two Assistant Professorships in Classics (Greek Literature) from 01 September 2026 (or as soon as possible thereafter). Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Timothy Whitmarsh, Regius Professor of Greek . Closing date 19 January 2026. Further details are availble here

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)

20 October 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.

“Decoding the Desert” and “Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys” now on CUDL

29 September 2025

Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library. A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds -...