Glenn R. Bugh is associate professor of Classical and Byzantine Studies at Virginia Tech.  He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland and has been a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.; and a research scholar at the Hellenic Institute for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice, Italy.  Glenn served as the Summer Session Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2000 and 2011, and was the Whitehead Visiting Professor there in 2004–2005. Along with many articles, he has published two books, The Horsemen of Athens and The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World.   

Glenn has served as an expert on Smithsonian trips to Greece, Italy, the Adriatic, Turkey, and the Black Sea since 1984, and offered numerous seminars for Smithsonian Associates, including “A Tale of Two Cities: Athens and Rome.”  He frequently teaches at Virginia Tech’s Center for European Studies and Architecture in Switzerland and has lectured at a variety of academic institutions. Glenn was featured in an A&E documentary on the Roman emperor Caligula. He lived in Verona and Livorno as a boy.