Geoffrey Sumi graduated from UW with a degree in Classics (with College Honors) in 1986. Prof. Bliquez's Honors seminar in Classics shifted Geoff's focus from Engineering, his intended major, to Classics and things snowballed from there. He recalls (fondly) studying Plautus and Terence with Prof. Dunn; Livy and Tacitus with Prof. Clauss; the Greek tragedians with Prof. Halleran; Lucretius with Prof. Blondell; Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid with Prof. Harmon; Herodotus and Aristotle with Prof. MacKay, and the Attic orators and Thucydides with Prof. Langdon, all of which required him to spend countless hours in the Classics seminar room in Denny Hall. Geoff went on to earn his Ph.D. in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan in 1993. He taught at Williams College and the College of the Holy Cross before arriving at Mount Holyoke College in 1996; he was Blegen Fellow at Vassar College in 2000-2001 and then returned to Mount Holyoke, where he is currently Professor of Classics on the Alumnae Foundation. He is the author of Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire (Ann Arbor 2005) along with several articles analyzing the intersection of ritual, ceremony, and spectacle in the political culture of the late Republic and early Principate.