Dissertation: "Pass the Wine: Drinking, Dining, and the Formation of Social Structure and Cultural Identity in the Connected Mediterranean and Near East, ca. 800-450 BCE"
Graduate Alumnae/i
2023
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Christopher Ell, Ph.D.
2021
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Stevie Hull, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Education in the Cosmos: Augustine’s Platonic Curriculum of Philosophy and Rhetoric"
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Avichai Kapach, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Contradiction and Truth in Euripides: A Study of the Trojan Women, Helen, and Orestes"
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Kelly Nguyen, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Vercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Inheritance and Vietnamese Ambivalence"
2020
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Justin Byrd, M.A.
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Gaia Gianni, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Fictive Kinship and Roman Childhood: A Social History"
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Trigg Settle, M.A.
Thesis: "Trauma and The Interpretation of Tragedy"
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Erika Valdivieso, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Virgilian Imitatio in Colonial Latin America"
2019
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Elliston P. Bissell, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Primacy and Subsumption in Greco-Roman Epic Literature"
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Sam Caldis, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Brothers, Colleagues, and Power in Imperial Rome"
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Luther Karper, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Epigraphic Representations of Warfare and Polis Agency in the Late Hellenistic Era (168-31 BCE)"
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Mahmoud Samori, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "A Minor History of Peace"
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Michiel van Veldhuizen, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Divining Disaster: Signs of Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture"
2018
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Keith Fairbank, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "A Dividing Sea: The Adriatic World from the First to the Fourth Centuries BC"
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Darrel Janzen, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Outsider Within: Self-Seclusion by the Roman Elite from Tiberius to Hadrian"
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Meghan Lescault, M.A.
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Daria Resh, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Metaphrasis in Byzantine Hagiography: The Early History of The Genre"
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Jennifer Swalec, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Female Agency, Dress, and the Social Fabric of Ancient Greece"
2017
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Dominic Machado, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Communities and Collective Action in the Republican Army"
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Jennifer Lewton Yates, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Ancient Novels and the Tragic Tradition"
2016
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Bryan Brinkman, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Popular Collective Speech and the Communication of Ideology: Acclamation in the Roman Empire"
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Joseph Kurz, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Barcid Empire? An Economic, Social, and Political Study of Imperial Interactions between Carthaginians and Locals in Southern Iberia"
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Rachel Philbrick, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Disruptive Verse: Hyperbole and the Hyperbolic Persona in Ovid's Exile Poetry"
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Adrianne Troia, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Epitaph for Bion: Agonism and Fictional Biography as Literary Criticism in Late Bucolic"
2015
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Barbara Blythe, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Petronius' Satyrica: A Novel of Mystic Initiation"
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Scott DiGiulio, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Aulus Gellius, the Noctes Atticae, and the Literary Logic of Miscellany under the High Roman Empire"
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Karen (Kelly) Jones, M.A.
Thesis: "Raised Voices: Seneca’s Ghost Scenes as Microcosms of the Tragedies"
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Byron MacDougall, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Gregory of Nazianzus and Christian Festival Rhetoric"
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Anne (McEnroe) McDonald, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Plutarch and the Philosophical Dialogue"
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Tara Mulder, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Fetal Actors, Female Bodies: Childbirth in the Roman Empire"
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Anne Rabe, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Innovation and Invective in Cicero's Violent Metaphors"
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Matthew Wellenbach, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Choruses for Dionysus: Studies in the History of Dithyramb and Tragedy"
2014
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Joseph McDonald, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Narrating Impiety in Ancient Greece"
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Mitchell Parks, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "City of Praise: The Politics of Encomium in Classical Athens"
2013
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Timothy Haase, Ph.D.
Dissertation:"Watching the World Unravel: Juvenal's Satirical Mechanics"
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Jeanmarie Stimson, M.A.
2012
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David Berger, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Plato's Lesser Hippias: Translation and Commentary"
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Christopher Geggie, M.A.
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Leo Landrey, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Valerius Flaccus' Roman Epic"
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Robin McGill, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Aligning Myths and Experience: The Sanctification of Time in Early Christian Latin Hymns"
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Melissa Sassin, M.A.
2011
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Literary and Ideological Memory in the Octavia"
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Christopher Welser, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Demos and Dioikesis: Public Finance and Democratic Ideology in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens"
2010
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Alexander Alderman, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Serio-comic Elements in Xenophon's Socratic Writings"
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Peter Lech, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Gender, Social Status and Discourse in Roman Comedy"
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Asya Sigelman, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Xenia and the Unity of Time in Pindar’s Victory Odes"
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Mark Thatcher, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "A Variable Tapestry: Identity and Politics in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy"
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William Torterelli, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Lyric Wisdom: Alcaeus and the Tradition of Paraenetic Poetry"
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David Yates, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Remembering the Persian War Differently"
2009
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William Appleton, M.A.
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Sarah Dawson, M.A.
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Jeffrey Hunt, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Fiction and Mimesis in the Idylls of Theocritus"
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Keeley Schell, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Vergil's Self-Referential Simile: Thematic Construction Through Internal Allusion in the Aeneid"
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Cynthia Swanson, M.A.
2007
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Adam Bravo, M.A.
Thesis: "An Examination of the Speeches of Julian in Ammianus Marcellinus"
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Kevin Patterson, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "A Christian Virgil: The Function of Virgilian References in the Writings of Aldhelm"
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Jennifer Thomas, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Staging Empire: The Manipulation of Place and Time in Lucan's Bellum Civile"
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Christopher Trinacty, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Character is Destiny: Senecan Tragedy and Ovid"
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Ed Wong, M.A.
2006
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Eva Cieloszyk, M.A.
Thesis: "Tacitus' Narrative Techniques and the Role of the Eastern Digressions in the Neronian Hexad"
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Bret Mulligan, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Carmina Sola Loquor: The Poetics of Claudian's Carmina Minora"
2005
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Alon Navot, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Similes of the Real in Virgil's Aeneid"
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Sarah Nix, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Characterization of Caesar in Lucan's Bellum Civile"
2004
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Max Leo Goldman, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Problems of Voice in Petronius"
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Carol Jane King, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Alexander and Divination: Dreams, Omens, and Aristander of Telmessus in the Alexander Historians"
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Joseph Gerard Leichter, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Zij as-Sanjari of Gregory Chioniades: Text, Translation, and Greek-to-Arabic Glossary"
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Joshua Slocum, M.A.
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Sarah Smart, M.A.
Thesis: "Things Fall Apart: Lucan's Allusions to Lucretius' Perished World"
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Heather L. Vincent
Dissertation: "Ieiunum Odium: A Theory of Humor in Juvenal"
2003
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Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Speaking of Salvation: Gregory of Nazianzus as Poet and Priest in his Autobiographical Poems"
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John Dayton, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Athletes of War: An Evaluation of the Agonistic Elements in Greek Warfare"
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Preston Edwards, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "On the Christian Alexandrianism of Gregory of Nazianzus"
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Michael Fontaine, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Sophisticated Paraprosdokian in Plautus"
2002
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Malcolm Hyman, obiit
Dissertation: "Barbarism and Solecism in Ancient Grammatical Thought"
2001
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Antonios Augoustakis, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Facta virum sileo: Re-Constructing Female Action in Silius Italicus' Punica"
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Edward L. deBoo, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Puns on Plato's Name in The Republic"
2000
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Ruth Rothaus Caston, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Elegiac Passion: A Study of Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy"
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Heath Martin, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Spontaneous Generation and Aristotle's Hierarchy of Animal Life"
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Mark J. Sundahl, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Use of Statutes in the Seven Extant and graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai Speeches"
1999
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R. Anthony Kugler, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Representations of Self and Audience in the Phrygian And Cicilian Orations of Dio Chrysostom"
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Raymond Marks, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus"
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Matthew Munich, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Past Perfect: Images of the Past in Cicero, Lucretius and Catullus"
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Philip Thibodeau, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Wonders of a World. Essays on Vergil's Fourth Georgic"
1998
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Anthony Hollingsworth, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Recitation and the Stage: The Performance of Senecan Tragedy"
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Vassiliki Panoussi, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Epic Transfigured: Tragic Allusiveness in Vergil's Aeneid"
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Shilpa Raval, obiit
Dissertation: "Pudibunda Ora: Gender, Sexuality and Language in Ovid's Metamorphoses"
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Nicholas Sterling, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Laconic Persuasion: Rhetorical Arrangement of Events in Xenophon's Hellenika"
1997
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Gregory Bucher, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Prolegomena to a Commentary on Appian's Bellum Civile, Book 2"
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Carolin Hahnemann, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Incarnating Democracy: The Role of Theseus in the Tragedies of Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides"
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Ben J. Hennelly, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Transcendence and Implication: The Two Visions of Virgil's Georgics"
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Joseph S. Houser, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Philosophy of Musonius Rufus: A Study of Applied Ethics in the Late Stoa"
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Marc Mastrangelo, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Psychomachia of Prudentius: A Reappraisal of the Greek Sources and Origins of Allegory"
1996
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Margaret Graver, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Therapeutic Reading and Seneca's Moral Epistles"
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Steven Rutledge, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Literary, Cultural, and Historical Background of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus"
1995
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Faith Sandstrom, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Silver Soteira Coinage of Cyzicus in the Fourth Century B.C."
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Catherine M. Torigian, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Poetic Allegory and Roman Reality in Three Carmina"
1994
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Geoffrey Bakewell, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Producing the Polis: Political and Legal Terminology in Aeschylus"
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James J. Kennelly, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "Thucydides' Knowledge of Herodotus"
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Jacob Rabinowitz, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity: Demonization of The Fertility Goddess"