Mark Clark

Mark Clark
Associate Professor
mark.edward.clark@usm.edu

Mark Edward Clark, Associate Professor of Classics and History, teaches Greek, Latin, and classical history. He completed an M.A. in Greek at the University of Minnesota, a Ph.D. in classics from Indiana University, and a Graduate Certificate in Medieval Latin at the Medieval Institute of Indiana University. Dr. Clark also did graduate work in klassische Philologie at the Universitaet Heidelberg and in Roman numismatics at the American Numismatic Museum in New York City. He has received numerous postdoctoral grants and has conducted research at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of North Carolina, the Kommission fuer alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich. He has also participated in archeological digs at Isthmia, Greece.

Dr. Clark has presented numerous papers at conferences in America and abroad. His published scholarship has appeared in European and American journals. His research interests range from Greek epic to Roman intellectual history, Greek and Roman iconography, classical rhetoric and philosophy, the classical tradition, humanism, and the history of medicine. Recent scholarship includes a study of the conflict between pagans and Christians during the late Roman empire.

In addition to beginning level classes, he offers advanced Greek courses on Homer, Plato, and Greek Tragedy. His advanced Latin courses include such authors as Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Cicero, and St. Augustine. In the Department of History, he currently teaches courses on Greek history and the rise of Christianity in the Roman empire.