James Scott, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics

James M. Scott, Professor of Classics, received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1986. His dissertation was Fate and Free Will in the Prose Works of Seneca. Scott came to The University of Montana in 1984 as an Assistant Professor of Classics. He currently is in his eighth year as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. His research is primarily in Vergil, and his last several articles deal with Renaissance churchmen’s uses of the Aeneid. Scott is also translating and commenting on the Jesuit Latin records of early Montana Indian missions. Scott and his wife, an equestrian, live on a small farm west of Missoula with their horses, donkeys, and sheep. They travel annually to Rome. His major hobby is collecting antique cast iron stoves and cutting enough wood to keep them hot in the winter.