Office: HMNSS 2614
Phone: (951) 827-1250
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wendy.raschke@ucr.edu

WENDY RASCHKE
Director of the Classics Program
Lecturer, Classics/Comparative Literature

Education

Ph.D., State University of New York in Classical Philology
M.A, State University of New York in Classical Archaeology
B.A., University College London in Classics (Honors)

Latin Literature, especially Satire; Archaic and Classical Greek Art in its social context.

Biography

Professor Raschke is the director of Classical Studies at UCR. She is also the faculty Advisor for Comparative Ancient Civilizations and a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. She teaches courses at all levels in Greek and Roman literature, language, and culture. She also actively participates in the Comparative Civilization program, teaching a course on Foundational Concepts with Professor Karl Taube in the Department of Anthropology. Her publications include a book on the archaeology of the Olympics, as well as major articles in Lucilius and Roman Satire in the Journal of Roman Studies, Hermes, and Latomus.

Selected Publications

The Archaeology of the Olympics (editor, contributor and writer of the introduction) Wisconsin: 1988.

Awards

Numerous Faculty Mini-grants for Undergraduate Instructional Improvements

Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty, UCR 1989

Guest Lecturer for Archaeological Study Tour of Greece, Summer 1984

Resident, British School at Rome, 1970,-71

Ford Foundation Archaeological Trainee-ship, Summer 1970

Fulbright Award, 1968