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Alumni
Name | dissertation title | Current position |
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Kevin Ennis (Ph.D. 2023) | Economies of Weaving: Women, Labor, and Textiles at Morgantina from the Bronze Age to the Republican Era | Lecturer, Indian University Bloomington |
Catherine Teitz (Ph.D. 2023) | The Best Laid Plans: Assessing Urban Space on Hadrian's Wall | Research Fellowship, Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute |
Ian Tewksbury (Ph.D. 2023) | Death is a Feast: The Ideology of the Homeric Banquet | Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco |
Sarah Wilker (Ph.D. 2023) | The Social Life of Ancient Markets: Using Formal Network Approaches and Ceramic Data to Reconceptualize Market Behavior in the Late Classical–Early Hellenistic (400–200 BCE) Southeast Aegean | Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College |
Grace Erny (Ph.D. 2022) | Landscapes of Inequality: Social Differentiation in Geometric through Classical Crete | Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley |
Amanda Gaggioli (Ph.D. 2022) | Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco Roman Society: the longue dur e of human geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece | Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis |
Dillon Gisch (Ph.D. 2022) | In Search of Other Venuses: images of vulva covering Venus at the margins of the ancient world and modern typological discourse | LinkedIn Profile |
Chenye "Peter" Shi (Ph.D. 2022) | Getting Around in a Byzantine Village: Social Network and Financial Activities in Sixth Century Aphrodito | LinkedIn Profile |
Veronica Shi (Ph.D. 2022) | Writing and the Origins of Greek Intellectual Influence | |
Vladimir Gildin Zuckerman (Ph.D. 2022) | The Efficacy of Beauty: Aesthetics and Action in the Thought of Xenophon of Athens | LinkedIn Profile |
Brian Bigio (Ph.D. 2021) | Saving the Mind : An Etymological Inquiry into the Cognitive Behavioral Function of the Ancient Greek Value Sophrosyne | Visiting Assistant Professor, Whitman College |
Anja Krieger (Ph.D. 2021) | People, Ships, and the Sea: Seafaring in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 13th Century BCE to c. 4th Century BCE | Academia.edu Profile |
David Pickel (Ph.D. 2021) | The Malarial Landscapes of Roman Central Italy: An Archaeological Study of Disease Exposure | ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and a Georgetown Humanities Initiative Postdoctoral Scholar, Georgetown University |
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Ten-Hove (Ph.D. 2021) | Aeschylus and the Cultural History of Tragedy: Dramatic Connoisseurship, Ideology, and Poetics from the 5th Century BCE to the 5th Century CE | Lecturer, Stanford University |
Leonardo Cazzadori (Ph.D. 2020) | The Poet's Display: The Genre of Hellenistic Expository Poetry | Academia.edu Profile |
Anne Duray (Ph.D. 2020) | The Idea of Greek Pre history: Archaeological Knowledge Production and the Making of "Early Greece," c. 1950 1980 | Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder |
Eunsoo Lee (Ph.D. 2020) | Visual Agency in Euclid s Elements: A study of the Transmission of Visual Knowledge | Assistant Professor, Seoul National University |
Alyson Melzer (Ph.D. 2020) | The Somatics of Style: The Body in Ancient Greek Theories of Verbal Art | Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington |
Matthieu Abgrall (Ph.D. 2019) | Legal innovation in archaic Greece : the case of monumental written laws. | Diplomat, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Nolan Epstein (Ph.D. 2019) | Choral Orientations: Spatial Cognition and Geopoetics in Pindar, Bacchylides, and Simonides | |
Edward Kelting (Ph.D. 2019) | The Greek Face of Roman Egypt | Assistant Professor, UC San Diego |
Kilian Mallon (Ph.D. 2019) | Religion at the End of Empire: Church Construction, Labor Mobilization, and Social Power in the Late Antique Western Mediterranean | LinkedIn Profile |
Scott Weiss (Ph.D. 2019) | Birth of the Grotesque: Dynamics of Display in Neronian Art and Literature | Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis |
Scott Arcenas (Ph.D. 2018) | Stasis: the nature, frequency, and intensity of political violence in ancient Greece | Assistant Professor, University of Montana |
Simeon Ehrlich (Ph.D. 2018) | Greco Roman Urban Form in its Global Context | Assistant Professor, Concordia University |
Israel "Izzy" McMullin (Ph.D. 2018) | Touching Heroes: the Homeric construction of intimacy | Library Operations Manager, The University of New Mexico |
Stephen Sansom (Ph.D. 2018) | The Poetics of Style in the Shield of Heracles: Speech, Ekphrasis, and Sound | Assistant Professor, Florida State University |
Brittney Szempruch (Ph.D. 2018) | Songs of Empire: Embedded Hymns and the Latin Hymnic Tradition | Assistant Professor, Air Force Academy |
Jonathan Weiland (Ph.D. 2018) | The Invisible Romans: An Archaeological Investigation of the Poorest Roman Burials and Their Contexts in Imperial Period Italy | Scientific Recovery Expert, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), US Department of Defense |
Ava Shirazi (Ph.D. 2017) | The Mirror and the Senses: Reflection and Perception in Classical Greek Thought | Assistant Professor, Haverford University |
Artemis Brod (Ph.D. 2016) | Previous Selves: Body and Narrative in Aelius Aristides Hieroi Logoi and Apuleius Metamorphoses | |
Megan Daniels (Ph.D. 2016) | The Queen of Heaven and a Goddess for all the People: Kingship, Religion, and Cultural Evolution between Greece and the Near East, 3000 500 BCE | Lecturer, University of New England |
Thea De Armond (Ph.D. 2016) | "Se svou ne navnou prac ": Anton n Salac and Classics at the Margins | Adjunct Faculty, New Mexico State University |
David Driscoll (Ph.D. 2016) | Acting the Exegete: Homeric Quotation and Interpretation in Imperial Literary Symposia | Academia.edu Profile |
Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (Ph.D. 2016) | Parodies of Paideia: Prose Fiction and High Learning in the Roman Empire | Assistant Professor, University of Virginia |
Mark Pyzyk (Ph.D. 2016) | Economies of Expertise: Knowledge and Skill Transfer in Classical Greece | LinkedIn Profile |
Alan Sheppard (Ph.D. 2016) | The Development of Epigram in Classical Greece | Academia.edu Profile |
Federica Carugati (Ph.D. 2015) | In Law We Trust Each Other : Legal Institutions, Democratic Stability and Economic Development in Classical Athens | Lecturer, King's College London |
Katharine Kreindler (Ph.D. 2015) | Consumption and Exchange in Central Italy in the Ninth through Sixth centuries BCE | LinkedIn Profile |
Matthew Loar (Ph.D. 2015) | Hercules at the Crossroads of Augustan Literature and Art | Director of Fellowships, Washington and Lee University |
Carolyn MacDonald (Ph.D. 2015) | Looking like a Roman, Looking like a Greek: Viewing as Cultural Performance in the Late Republic and Early Empire | Associate Professor, University of Brunswick |
Donni Wang (Ph.D. 2015) | The Olympian Economic Alternative from Ancient Greece: A Convivial Model Without Market Exchange or State Coordination | Academia.edu Profile |
Hans Wietzke (Ph.D. 2015) | Knowledge in person: the socio literary self fashioning of the Greek expository author | Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Ph.D. 2014) | Divine Institutions: Religious Practice, Economic Development, and social transformation in mid republican Rome | Associate Professor, Princeton University |
Robert Stephan (Ph.D. 2014) | House Size and Economic Growth: Regional Trajectories in the Roman World | Associate Professor, The University of Arizona |
Juan De Vivo (Ph.D. 2013) | The Memory of Greek Battle: Warfare, Identity and Materiality | LinkedIn Profile |
Foivos Karachalios (Ph.D. 2013) | The Politics of Judgment: Dispute Resolution and State Formation from the Homeric World to Solon s Athens | Linkedin Profile |
James Kierstead (Ph.D. 2013) | A Community of Communities: Associations and Democracy in Classical Athens | Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington |
Sarah Murray (Ph.D. 2013) | Trade, Imports, & Society in Early Greece: 1300 900 B.C.E. | Associate Professor, University of Toronto |
Melissa Bailey (Ph.D. 2012) | To Separate the Act From the Thing: Technologies of Value in the Ancient Mediterranean | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County |
Nicholas Boterf (Ph.D. 2012) | Lyric Cities: Poet, Performance, and Community | LinkedIn Profile |
Al Duncan (Ph.D. 2012) | Tragic Ugliness: The Interplay of Genre and Aesthetics in Greek Drama | Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Sarah Janda (Ph.D. 2012) | Not Written in Stone: Martial and the Epigrammatic Reader | Latin Teacher, Kehillah High School |
Elizabeth Jones (Ph.D. 2012) | Lyric Physicality: Bodies and Objects in Archaic Greek Lyric Poetry | LinkedIn Profile |
Matthew Simonton (Ph.D. 2012) | The Rules of the Few: Institutions and the Struggle for Political Order in Classical Greek Oligarchies | Associate Professor, Arizona State University |
Kathryn Aftosmis (Ph.D. 2011) | The Performance of Justice in Imperial Latin Literature | |
Courtney Roby (Ph.D. 2011) | The Encounter of Knowledge: Technical Ekphrasis Between Alexandria and Rome | Associate Professor, Cornell University |
Darian Totten (Ph.D. 2011) | Thinking Regionally: Rural landscapes and economic connections in Roman southern Italy | Assistant Professor, McGill University |
Jason Aftosmis (Ph.D. 2010) | Paradigm and Discourse in Archaic Greek Poetry | |
Vincent Tomasso (Ph.D. 2010) | "Cast in Later Grecian Mould": Quintus of Smyrna s Reception of Homer | Associate Professor, Trinity College Hartford Connecticut |
Lela Urquhart (Ph.D. 2010) | Colonial Religion and Indigenous Societies in the Archaic Western Mediterranean, c. 750 400 BCE | LinkedIn Profile |
Rachel Ahern Knudsen (Ph.D. 2009) | The Artificer of Discourse: Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric | LinkedIn Profile |
Daphne Kleps (Ph.D. 2009) | Archaism and Orality in Homeric Syntax | Classics Tutor |
Sarah Levin-Richardson (Ph.D. 2009) | Roman Provocations: Interactions with Decorated Spaces in Early Imperial Rome and Pompeii | Associate Professor, University of Washington |
Margaret Butler (Ph.D. 2008) | Of Swords and Strigils: Social Change in Ancient Macedon | |
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Ph.D. 2008) | Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt | Associate Professor, USC |
Charles Gladhill (Ph.D. 2008) | Foedera: A Study in Roman Poetics and Society | Associate Professor, McGill University |
Ulrike Krotscheck (Ph.D. 2008) | Scale, Structure, and Organization of Archaic Maritime Trade in the Western Mediterranean: the "Pointe Lequin 1A" | Faculty, The Evergreen State College |
Andrew Monson (Ph.D. 2008) | Agrarian Institutions in Transition: Privatization from Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt | Professor, University of Wuerzburg (Germany) |
Micah Myers (Ph.D. 2008) | The Frontiers of the Empire and the Boundaries of World in the Augustan Poetic Imaginary | Associate Professor, Kenyon College |
David Platt (Ph.D. 2008) | A Cultural Studies Approach to Roman Public Libraries: Social Negotiation, Changing Spaces, and Euergetism | LinkedIn Profile |
James Collins (Ph.D. 2007) | Philosophical Advertisements: Protreptic Marketing in Fourth Century Greek Culture | Senior Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature, The University of Sydney |
Lidewijde De Jong (Ph.D. 2007) | Becoming a Roman province: An analysis of funerary practices in Roman Syria in the context of empire | Associate Professor, University of Groningen |
Danielle Steen (Ph.D. 2007) | Many Waters: Bathing Ethe of Roman Palestine | Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor of History; Chair of Archaeology, Knox College |
Eirene Visvardi (Ph.D. 2007) | Dancing the Emotions: Pity and Fear in the Tragic Chorus | Associate Professor, Wesleyan University |
Mark Alonge (Ph.D. 2006) | The Hymn to Zeus from Palaikastro: religion and tradition in post Minoan Crete | Classics and History Teacher, Boston University Academy |
Marcus Folch (Ph.D. 2006) | Genre, Gender, and Performance In Plato's Laws | Associate Professor, Columbia University |
Julia Hawkins (Ph.D. 2006) | The Poetics of Medicine in Augustan Epic | Associate Professor, The Ohio State University |
Robert Kelly (Ph.D. 2006) | Tibullus Literary Farm: Rusticity and Poetics in Elegies Book 1 | |
Jack Mitchell (Ph.D. 2006) | The Aural Iliad: Alexandrian Performances of an Archaic Text | Associate Professor, Dalhousie University |
Trinity Jackman (Ph.D. 2005) | Political Communities in Archaic and Classical Sicily and Southern Italy | Archaeologist, Royal Ontario Museum |
Donald Lavigne (Ph.D. 2005) | Iambic Configurations: Iambos from Archilochus to Horace | Associate Professor, Texas Tech University |
Brett Rogers (Ph.D. 2005) | Before Paideia: Representations of Education in Aeschylean Tragedy | Professor, University of Puget Sound |
Christopher Witmore (Ph.D. 2005) | Multiple field approaches in the Mediterranean: Revisiting the Argolid Exploration Project | Professor, Texas Tech University |
Allen Romano (Ph.D. 2004) | First Rites: Origin Stories in Ancient Greek Literature | Associate Professor, Florida State University |
Thomas Hawkins (Ph.D. 2003) | Cursing, Control and Christianity: The Iambike Idea in Late Antiquity | Associate Professor, The Ohio State University |
Christopher McLaren (Ph.D. 2003) | Clarifying Obscurity: Heraclitean Darkness in Plato and Arsitotle | |
Cashman Prince (Ph.D. 2003) | The Rhetoric of Instruction in Archaic Greek Didactic Poetry | LinkedIn Profile |
David Smith (Ph.D. 2003) | How the West was One: The Formation of Greek Cultural Identity in Italy and Sicily | Associate Professor, SF State |
Meredith Monaghan (Ph.D. 2002) | Unfinished Business in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus | Director (Academic Fellowships), Brandeis University |
James Quillin (Ph.D. 2002) | Imaginary Invasions of Italy: Fear Propaganda, Consensus, and Imperialism, 200 146 B.C. | High School Director, The Post Oak School |
Adam Serfass (Ph.D. 2002) | Church Finances from Constantine to Justinian, 312 565 C.E. | Professor, Kenyon College |
Nicholas Cofod (Ph.D. 2001) | Tombstones and Non Elite Self Representation in Roman Iberia | Board Secretary, The Cabin |
Susan Hirt (Ph.D. 2001) | Erotic Vision in the Conversions of Aseneth and Thecla | |
Amy Jervis (Ph.D. 2001) | Talking Heads: The Iconography of Mutilation in the Roman Republic | |
Irene Polinskaya (Ph.D. 2001) | Defining Local Religious Systems in Ancient Greece. The Case Study of the Aeginetan Pantheon | Pro-Vice Dean (Research Culture), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London |
Bruce Hedin (Ph.D. 2000) | The Phonological and Syntactic Conditioning of Elision in Greek | LinkedIn Profile |
Richard Westall (Ph.D. 2000) | Caesar's Civil War and the Mediterranean World of 49-48 B.C. | Academia.edu Profile |
Barbara Clayton (Ph.D. 1999) | Postmodern Penelope: Refiguring the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey | Teaching Staff, Stanford University |
Amy Cohen (Ph.D. 1999) | Role Doubling as a Dramatic Technique in Greek Tragedy | Professor, Randolph University |
Luke Roman (Ph.D. 1999) | The Construction of Literary Autonomy in Roman Poetry | Professor, Newfoundland and Labrador's University |
Honora Chapman (Ph.D. 1998) | Spectacle and theater in Josephus's Bellum Judaicum | Dean, Fresno State University |
Brendon Reay (Ph.D. 1998) | Cultivating Romans : Republican agricultural writing and the invention of the Agricola | |
Margaret Imber (Ph.D. 1997) | Tyrants and mothers: Roman education and ideology | LinkedIn Profile |
Michael Schmid (Ph.D. 1996) | Speech and Speaker in Pindar | |
Phiroze Vasunia (Ph.D. 1996) | Hellenizing Egypt | Professor, University College of London |
Michael De Vinne (Ph.D. 1995) | The advocacy of empty bellies: episcopal representation of the poor in the late Roman Empire | |
Donald Hersey (Ph.D. 1995) | "To Lead," in Greek epic: oral versification techniques connected with the verb ago | LinkedIn Profile |
Andrew Bell (Ph.D. 1994) | Spectacular power in the ancient city | |
Denise Greaves (Ph.D. 1994) | Dionysius Periegetes and the Hellenistic poetic and geographical traditions | |
Peter Hunt (Ph.D. 1994) | Slaves and soldiers in classical ideologies | |
Joseph Reed (Ph.D. 1993) | The Hellenistic tradition and Bion of Smyrna | Joseph Duffield Reed CV |
Martha Taylor (Ph.D. 1993) | The geographical dimensions of the polis : the history of Salamis from the sixth to the third century BC | Professor, Loyola University Maryland |
Kirk Ormand (Ph.D. 1992) | The representation of marriage in Sophoclean drama | Professor, Oberlin College and Conservatory |
James Boykin (Ph.D. 1990) | Religion and authority in the territory of Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine | James Boykin CV |
Cynthia Damon (Ph.D. 1990) | Vetus atque antiquus quaestus : the art of the parasite in ancient Rome | Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
Karen Myers (Ph.D. 1990) | Rerum causae : Ovid's metamorphoses and aetiological narrative | Professor, University of Virgina |
Anna Thorpe (Ph.D. 1989) | Prometheus revised : Socratic forethought in the Protagoras | |
Christopher Faraone (Ph.D. 1988) | Talismans, voodoo dolls and other apotropaic statues in ancient Greece | Professor, The University of Chicago |
Judith Evans-Grubbs (Ph.D. 1987) | "Munita coniugia" : the emperor Constantine's legislation on marriage and the family | Professor Emerita, Emory University |
Elise Garrison (Ph.D. 1987) | Some contexts of suicide in Greek tragedy | |
Lesley Jones (Ph.D. 1987) | Morbidity and vitality : the interpretation of menstrual blood in Greek science | Professor, The University of Texas at Austin |
Dirk Obbink (Ph.D. 1987) | Philodemus, De Pietate I | |
James Benson (Ph.D. 1985) | Patañjali's remarks on Aṅga | |
William Klingshirn (Ph.D. 1985) | Authority, consensus and dissent : Caesarius of Arles and the making of a christian community in late antique Gaul | Professor, The Catholic University of America |
Lawrence Woodlock (Ph.D. 1981) | Noun-verb associations and the formula in Homer's Iliad | |
David Halperin (Ph.D. 1980) | Theocritus and the Ancient Definition of Bucolic | |
Jacob Nyenhuis (Ph.D. 1963) | Homer and Euripedes: A Study in Characterization |
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