Reading Latin & Ancient History, Spring Break in Rome

Timothy Calder is an educator, entrepreneur, and traveler who has spent almost half his life living outside the US. At Dartmouth College, Timo majored in East Asian studies, a versatile concentration that allowed him to explore classes in many different subjects such as government, anthropology, history, literature, film, religion, language, and art history. After graduation, Timo pursued a Princeton in Asia fellowship, which sent him to teach ancient Asian history at a local secondary school in Singapore. Timo then spent 6 years in Beijing and 4 years in Hong Kong. With over 12 years of experience as an educator, Timo has worked with hundreds of students from Asia and the US as a classroom teacher, college consultant, academic tutor, and squash coach. When Timo is not teaching he is probably reading a sci-fi novel, playing squash, or walking Chelsea (his 3-legged rescue dog from Beijing).

Dr. Crispin Corrado is a classical archaeologist specializing in Roman art, who received her Ph.D. from Brown University, her M.A. in Art History, and B.A. in Classics from the University of Chicago. Professor Corrado (“Crispin”) has fieldwork experience at Pompeii and has worked in a curatorial capacity in the departments of ancient art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Vatican Museums. She assisted these institutions in the creation and implementation of exhibitions of ancient art, co-authored catalogs, wrote articles, and presented guest lectures. Crispin’s major research interests include Roman wall painting, sculpture, and domestic architecture. She currently teaches at several American universities in Rome and is the founder and an acting officer of the Rome Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. She has lived in Rome for over fifteen years and is our resident Ancient History teacher and guide. She co-led our 2023 Reading Latin + Ancient History spring program in Rome and our Learning to Read Latin summer program in Rome and the Bay of Naples.

Sarah Grover earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and her M.A. in Classics from NYU, where she focused on Latin and Greek literature. She has been teaching Latin, Ancient Greek, and Spanish at Riverdale Country School since 2007 and has led both middle and high school students on trips to Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and Peru. She loves the study of modern languages and enjoys speaking Italian. Sarah has led many Calder Classics programs in Rome in the summers and over spring break and has developed several online Reading Latin courses. She has also taught Greek in Thessaloniki for Calder Classics. Sarah is the co-leader of our Spring Break 2026 Reading Latin program in Rome.