SECTION 112 Thursday 10-11 242 Dwinelle
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Mont Allen was born and lived his first 18 years on an American army base in Mannheim, Germany. His first experience of living in the U.S. came when he began college at Berkeley. (Go Bears!) He majored in Geography, and worked as a campus tour guide (but still routinely gets lost in Dwinelle).
This was followed by three snowy and bleak years at Syracuse University, where Mont got an M.A. in Religious Studies, specializing in the religions and philosophies of the Roman Empire. Sick of the cold and hungering for the charms of Northern California, he then returned to the Bay Area. After spending three years working full time as a notetaker for Black Lightning Lecture Notes, he began graduate school at Berkeley, earning an M.A. in European History. He is now in the Art History Department, where he is working on a Ph.D. in Classical Art. Funerary art—and Roman sarcophagi in particular—are his main research interest. (It is rumored that if he ever wins the lottery, he will immediately buy a Roman sarcophagus of his own for use as a planter, or a bathtub.)
When not looking at Roman coffins, Mont can be found biking and jogging in the Berkeley hills, watching episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and twitching to 80's German synthesizer music. This upcoming summer he will be excavating the remains of Roman temples at the ancient port city of Tel Dor, on Israel's Mediterranean coast. (Those interested in joining the excavation team are urged to ask him for more details, and to visit the Tel Dor web-site.)
Mont took Classics 28 with Professor Bulloch as an undergraduate in 1993, and is thrilled to be GSIing for it now, eleven years later.