Christine Renaud

• Chair of the Classics Department
• Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program
• Professor of Classics, Religion, Women's and Gender Studies

Professor Chris Renaud has excavated in the ancient agora of Athens, the Roman Forum, an ancient Greek necropolis outside of Metaponto in southern Italy, and the Panhellenic sanctuary of Isthmia, Greece. Since 2005, she has supervised the excavations at the Villa delle Vignacce, a second-century luxury villa in Rome, where she also serves as translator and photographer. In 2010, she worked at the University of Bologna's Excavations at Ostia, the ancient port of Rome. She involves Carthage students in her excavation work every summer.

She earned her Ph.D. in classics and classical archaeology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1990. She earned her M.A. in Latin from Wayne State University, and her B.A. in Latin and classical civilization from Wayne State University. She joined the Carthage faculty in 1995 from Bucknell University.

Education

• Ph.D. — Classics, Classical Archaeology, University of Texas-Austin, 1990 (Phi Kappa Phi)
• M.A. — Latin, Wayne State University
• B.A. — Latin and Classical Civilization, Wayne State University (Phi Beta Kappa)

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