Martha W . Habash, BA, PhD

Program Director, Classical and Near Eastern Studies

Professor

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Contact

MarthaHabash@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Fine & Performing Arts
African Studies
Classics
Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Dowling Hall/Humanities Center 208

Martha W . Habash, BA, PhD

Program Director, Classical and Near Eastern Studies

Professor

Dr. Habash has been teaching at Creighton since 1994.  She came to Omaha from Virginia via Greece and still misses the mountains and the ocean.  

Her research interests focus on the portrayal of religion in humorous authors, such as Aristophanes, Petronius, and Horace.  Other research projects include Greek Inscriptions in Jordan and the classical tradition in film.  

Dr. Habash teaches a wide array of courses including all levels of Ancient Greek and Latin, "War in Literature" ( A CIHI course), and "Make 'Em Laugh" (a literature course).   

She serves as Creighton's liaison to Jesuit Worldwide Learning: Higher Education at the Margins, where she recruits faculty to teach in the online diploma program, teaches in the online diploma program, assembles teams to rate essays from prospectives students, and participates in interviews of candidates.  
 

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Interests

  • Petronius

Research Focus

The portrayal of religion in humorous Greek and Roman authors; Petronius; and Greek Inscriptions in Jordan

Department

Fine & Performing Arts

Position

Professor

Book, Chapter/Section

  • Effective Leadership for Overcoming ICT Challenges in Higher Education: What Faculty, Staff and Administrators Can Do to Thrive Amidst the Chaos
    Oltman Gretchen, Habash Martha, Online Education for Students Living at the Margins [Book Chapter] 2021

General

  • Habash M, ARISTOPHANES - MYTH, RITUAL AND COMEDY - BOWIE,AM 1996
  • Habash Martha, Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy 1996

Publications

  • Jesuit Higher Education
    Habash Martha, Roedlach Alexander, Fox Jill M., Oltman Gretchen, Abraham Ashley T., Jakmouj Yasmine H., Challenges faced by Jesuit worldwide learning students: Piloting a mixed methods investigation
    12:1 2023
  • Mouseion
    Habash Martha W., Following the Threads: Showtime's Dexter and Oedipus
    16:1, p. 145 - 160 2019
  • Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
    Bader Nabil, Habash Martha, A GREEK EPITAPH FROM JORDAN
    184, p. 235 - 237 2013
  • College of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University Newsletter
    Bader Nabil, Habash Martha, A New Greek Inscription from Northern Jordan
    31, p. 9 - 10 2011
  • Ancient narrative
    Habash Martha, Petronius' Satyrica 24.7: Quartilla's asellus
    5, p. 24 2007
  • Syllecta classica
    Habash Martha, Priapic Punishments in Petronius’ Satyrica 16–26
    18:1, p. 213 - 224 2007
  • Mnemosyne
    Habash Martha, Dionysos' Roles in Aristophanes' 'Frogs'
    55:1, p. 1 - 17 2002
  • The Classical journal (Classical Association of the Middle West and South)
    Habash Martha, Priapus: Horace in Disguise?
    94:3, p. 285 - 297 1999
  • Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies
    Habash Martha, The odd Thesmophoria of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
    38:1, p. 19 - 40 1997
  • American journal of philology
    Habash Martha, Two complementary festivals in Aristophanes' Acharnians
    116:4, p. 559 - 577 1995

Awards

  • Fulbright Visiting Scholar
    Grant for Research at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. Research was conducted on unpublished Latin and Greek inscriptions found in Northern Jordan.
    Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan