Professor Jeremy Hartnett began teaching at Wabash in 2004 after graduate work at the University of Michigan and a post-doc year at Oberlin College. A specialist in Roman archaeology and social history, he studies (and frequently leads students to) sites around the Bay of Naples, most notably Pompeii and Herculaneum. Prof. Hartnett’s current book project concentrates on daily life in these cities, especially as it unfolded on their streets. A New Directions Grant from the GLCA has allowed him to study Roman street life in a broader cross-cultural context by examining public urban space in Aztec and contemporary Mexico, Renaissance Florence, pre-industrial China, and modern India. His next big project may tackle the intersection of sound and Roman urban history.

Prof. Hartnett teaches across the discipline of Classics, including both ancient languages as well as the history and archaeology of Greece and Rome.   His Elementary Latin classes are renowned for a combination of jocularity and rigor (daily quizzes!), while the Classics senior seminar has wrestled with material as diverse as Roman sculpture from the Louvre, epic poetry from (who else?) Homer, and ancient artwork from the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

During the 2008-9 academic year Prof. Hartnett taught at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome; he now serves on the Centro’s managing committee.  He has spoken about the Roman world to public audiences at the Boston Museum of Science, at the Aspen Insitute, and as an Annual Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America.

"Faces Past: Ancient Imaginations and the Craft of Social History" The 33rd Annual LaFollette Lecture, Wabash College; 2012 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQ6-YP-s5E)

“$#*! This Dad Says: Reflections on Fatherhood, Learning, and Teaching” Chapel Talk, Wabash College; 2011 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELC9PkQJrsA)