Rate My Professor Kris Trego

Kris Trego is Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. As a philologist, Trego specializes in historiography with particular interests in ancient biography, Plutarch, and narrative theory. She is also a field archaeologist who has worked with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology since 2000, excavating ancient Greek and Roman shipwrecks off the coast of Turkey. In this capacity, she concentrates on utilitarian wares and the crew's personal items, contributing to understandings of ancient shipboard life. Her research areas include Plutarch and ancient biography, narrative theory, nautical archaeology, and ancient seafaring. Trego's teaching interests encompass Greek and Latin literature and history, the Latin language, Roman history and culture, and ancient seafaring. She has mentored undergraduate students on research projects presented at the Kalman Research Symposium, such as analyses of ancient oil lamps and other artifacts from the Mediterranean.