Dr. Rachele Duke
Lecturer of Italian & Latin

Contact Information
Ortega Hall 327C
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146
Phone: (505) 277-7371
Fax: (505) 277-3599
Email: rduke@unm.edu

Educational History

Ph.D. in Classics/Medieval Latin UCLA, 1988

Projects and Interests

Dr. Duke has authored papers on Medieval Latin Biblical commentaries from Ireland, Germany and Italy, including a critical edition of documents from the 11th century Codex Diplomatcus Sardiniae. She is currently working on a book on the Etruscans, particularly on the great impact they had on Roman civilization. She is also writing a volume on the Bronze Age migrations of the Shardana and the Sea Peoples from the Caucasus to Asia Minor and the Mediterranean area.

Dr.Duke has a variety of interests beyond her academic pursuits in the field of Classics, European Languages and Italian. She devotes much of her research to Bronze Age Archaeology in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and Central Asia. She has great interest in exploring the connections between the Minoan Civilization and the cultures of the Western Mediterranean, including the Etruscan culture and its yet undeciphered language.

On a more mundane level, she loves the outdoors, hiking, snorkeling and traveling. She especially loves to return home to her native island of Sardinia and to Venice, Italy.