Mike Tueller received his bachelor's from Harvard University in 1992 and, after a brief stint in the U.S. Navy, completed Harvard's doctoral program in classical philology in 2003. He taught for five years at Brigham Young University; in 2008 he came to ASU, where he teaches courses in ancient Greek language and literature and serves as Director of the Scbool of International Letters and Cultures. 

Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki completed her doctorate in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. Her research interests include Greek and Latin poetry, Classics and the environmental humanities, and reception studies in Latin America. In addition to Latin language classes, Marina teaches courses on the Classical tradition and Greek and Roman mythology. In her teaching, Marina emphasizes how knowledge is never neutral and how ancient cultures can help us understand that today’s world is shaped by our beliefs and actions.

Philadelphia born and bred, Sarah Bolmarcich attended Smith College in Northampton, MA. She went from there to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (post-baccalaureate program), and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. She studied abroad at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as a Fulbright Scholar (2002-2003) and returned on a postdoctoral fellowship in 2004-2005.  A summer fellowship at the American Numismatic Society in New York City, NY, gave her a background in ancient numismatics.

She has lived and taught in Baltimore, MD (Loyola College); Ann Arbor, MI (University of Michigan); Austin, TX (University of Texas); Minneapolis, MN (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities); and San Antonio, TX (Trinity University), before arriving at Arizona State University in the fall semester of 2010.

She works on ancient Greek international relations and diplomacy, and publishes often on that topic, as well as papers and articles on Greek history and literature in general.

Dr. Almira Poudrier is Teaching Professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. She attended Beloit College in Wisconsin, holds a Master’s Degree in ancient Greek from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Classics from SUNY Buffalo. She studied abroad as a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens summer program in 2000. She joined the faculty of SILC in 2002.

As Vice-President of the local chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, she also is a principal organizer of the local annual lecture series and other events like International Archaeology Day. Recipient of the Arizona Humanities “Friend of the Humanities” Award in 2018, she was elected to the Board of that organization in 2020 and now serves as Vice President.

Paul Arena holds a master's degree in classics from the University of Oregon and bachelors' degrees in political science and history. A wide-randing generalist, he teaches a broad range of courses in ancient Greek and Latin language and literature, Greek and Roman history, and medieval Latin. He also mentors students who plan on graduate studies in classics. His research interests include the Roman poet Tibullus and other elegiac poetry in Latin.

Born in the U.S., and educated in four different countries, Barbara Weinlich earned her Ph.D. in Classical Philology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main. Prior to joining Arizona State University in 2022, she has taught, among others, at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Weinlich's research interests include the study of Late Republican and proto-Imperial Latin poetry, the Classical Reception, Latin Epigraphy, Literary Theory, and Interdisciplinary Studies, including the study of the environment.

Her research has been funded by major institutions, including Harvard’s Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

In terms of service to the institution, Barbara Weinlich is known for her outreach to local and regional high schools as well as off-campus communities in general. She has served the profession as chair of the Committee for the Promotion of Latin (CPL) of the Classical Association of the Middle-West and South (CAMWS), as the local chair of the American Classical League (ACL) Institute 2018, and as a member of several committees of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS).