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Faculty Profile

Molly Pasco-Pranger

Classics
Chair and Professor of Classics
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103 Bryant Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-7097
Joined UM: August 17, 2006

Areas of Expertise

  • LATIN LANGUAGE
  • LATIN LITERATURE
  • ROMAN CULTURE

Brief Bio

Molly Pasco-Pranger is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics. Dr. Pasco-Pranger received her B.A. in Latin from Oberlin College in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Michigan in 1998. She taught for four years at the University of Puget Sound and four years at Wesleyan University before joining the University of Mississippi Department of Classics in 2006; she has served as department chair since 2013. Dr. Pasco-Pranger works on Roman literature and social history and has published several articles and a book on Ovid's Fasti and the Roman calendar, on Latin elegy, and on Cato the Elder. She teaches Latin at all undergraduate levels, Greek when she gets a chance, and a variety of undergraduate courses in Greek and Roman civilization and literature.

Degrees

BA
Latin
Oberlin College (1992)
PhD
Classics
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1998)

Committee Memberships

University Standing Committee
University Standing Committee
CLA Humanities Hub
Ad Hoc Committee
CLA Space Utilization Committee
Ad Hoc Committee
Honors - Honors Task Force
Task Force
Honors Freshman Scholarship Committee
Ad Hoc Committee
University Standing Committee
Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honor College
UG Application Selection Committee

Awards

College of Liberal Arts - Cora Lee Graham Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen
2018