Archaeologists as language teachers

[Andrew Reinhard]

Many, many archaeology professors in the U.S. are expected to teach one or two Latin and/or Greek classes each semester in conjunction with two or more archaeology classes, and many universities will hire archaeologists who can teach languages over those archaeologists who cannot. In an ideal world, Classics departments would handle the language courses and Archaeology/Art History departments would handle the non-language content. Are we the victims of reduced funding, and is the quality and scope of the content suffering, being delivered by scholars pulled in two directions? Or is this good for the field?