Current Graduate Students
Typically, between 3 and 5 graduate students begin their Ph.D. studies in Classics at Brown every year. The approximately 30 graduate students in the Classics department form part of a community of scholars studying the ancient world, together with graduate students in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Departments of Comparative Literature, Egyptology and West Asian Studies, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. Recent years have seen the inauguration of several graduate student-focused activities, including the Graduate Student Symposium, the Mellon Ancient Studies Workshop, various ad hoc reading groups, and Friday social hours.
Alexander Alderman [Alexander_Alderman@brown.edu]
Interests: Greek tragedy, Roman elegy, Sokratikoi logoi, moral psychology, and virtue ethics.
David Berger [David_Berger@brown.edu]
Interests: Ancient philosophy.
Heidi Broome-Raines [Heidi_Broome-Raines@brown.edu]
Interests: Sophocles; dialect, language, and performance in tragedy; Greek history; the classical tradition in Byzantine and Modern Greek literature; Cicero's Philosophica
Asya Chernyak [Asya_Chernyak@brown.edu]
Jeffrey Clackley [Jeffrey_Clackley@brown.edu]
Lauren Donovan [Lauren_Donovan@brown.edu]
Interests: Ovid, elegy, Hellenistic poetry, and early Roman history.
Christopher Geadrities [Christopher_Geadrities@brown.edu]
Timmy Haase [Timothy_Haase@brown.edu]
Interests: Ovid, miasma, and Roman love elegy.
Jeffrey Hunt [Jeffrey_M_Hunt@brown.edu]
Interests: Roman elegy and pastoral poetry.
Sarah Jacobson [Sarah_Jacobson@brown.edu]
Karen Kelly [Karen_Kelly@brown.edu]
Leo Landrey [Leo_Landrey@brown.edu]
Peter Lech [Peter_Lech@brown.edu]
Benjamin Low [personal website] [Benjamin_Low@brown.edu]
Interests: Roman poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, Greek and Roman epic, reception of Roman literature.
Michael McArthur [Michael_McArthur@brown.edu]
Robin McGill [Robin_McGill@brown.edu]
Interests: Greek rhetoric, ancient philosophy, early Christian literature.
Keeley Schell [Keeley_Schell@brown.edu]
Interests: Epic; Roman horticultural and agricultural writing; transmission of Classical literature.
Jeanmarie Stinson [Jeanmarie_Stinson@brown.edu]
Cynthia Swanson [Cynthia_Swanson@brown.edu]
Wendy Teo [Wendy_Teo@brown.edu]
Interests: Philosophy, Greek tragedy, Augustan poetry, mythopoesis.
Mark Thatcher [Mark_Thatcher@brown.edu]
Interests: History of Archaic Greece and Republican Rome.
Carrie Thomas [Carrie_Thomas@brown.edu]
Interests: Greek tragedy, Augustan poetry and comparative and historical linguistics.
William Tortorelli [William_Tortorelli@brown.edu]
Interests: Archaic Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry; Roman lyric poetry; textual criticism; meter; ovid.
Dissertation: "Lyric Wisdom: Alcaeus and the tradition of Paraenetic Poetry from Hesiod to Horace"
Miryana Vassileva [Miryana_Vassileva@brown.edu]
Christopher Welser [Christopher_Welser@brown.edu]
Interests:Greek and Latin historiography; economy of antiquity and ancient economic thought; ancient literary theory; didactic poetry.
David Yates [David_Yates@brown.edu]
Interests: Greek history.
Jennifer Yates [Jennifer_L_Yates@brown.edu]
Interests: Latin literature, Ovid, Apuleius