Classics Faculty Classical Studies Home                       created:6/28/06 updated: 1/21/07 updated: 5/10/07 updated: 6/20/07			Alexander T. Nice Visiting Associate Professor of Classics, 2006-2007 Classical Studies Program Willamette University B.A., M.Phil., University of Wales Ph.D., University of Exeter email: click here   Professor Nice is an ancient historian who specializes in Roman religion and divination. He has published on Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Juvenal, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio. He has taught all levels of ancient Greek and Latin and a variety of courses on Greek and Roman history, including courses on Roman North Africa and on Greek and Roman magic. In 2005, Alex Nice was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to attend a summer seminar in Rome and pursue a summer research project on ancient Roman religion and culture. His project, entitled "The gens Marcia and Roman Religion in the Late Republic", studies the influence that the nobility in Rome exacted on the city’s religious institutions. A native of Great Britain, Alex Nice previously was the head of the now defunct Classics Department at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Reed College. He left Willamette for a permanent teaching position at the European School in Woluwé (Belgium).   Courses Taught at WU:    • LATIN 131 Elementary Latin I (Fall 2006)    • LATIN 132 Elementary Latin II (Spring 2007)    • LATIN 231 Latin Prose: Sallust and Cicero (Fall 2006)    • HIST 251 Rome: From Republic to Empire (Fall 2006)    • CLAS 222 (IT) Greek and Roman Magic (Spring 2007)    • CLAS 252 (TH) Greece, Rome, and North Africa: Race, Culture, Society (Spring 2007)