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.

Trego's publications include "Competition in Context: philonikia in Agesilaus-Pompey," published in Ploutarchos n.s. 10 (2012/2013), pp. 63-74; and "Agesilaus the Puppet? The Effects of Thematic Development on Plutarch's Story of the Accession," in Illinois Classical Studies vol. 39 (2014), pp. 39-62. She has forthcoming contributions, "The Plainware Pottery" and "Bones, Stones, and Metals," to the final publication of the Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck from Texas A&M University Press. In 2017, Trego received Bucknell University's Class of 1956 Lectureship for Inspirational Teaching and delivered the associated lecture "Digging the Wine-dark Sea: Underwater Archaeology in the Field and Classroom." She has introduced distinguished speakers in the Samek Distinguished Art Lecture Series and participated in university events highlighting underwater archaeology. Her work bridges philological analysis and hands-on fieldwork, enriching the study of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at Bucknell.