Sam received a B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 2014 with honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  His senior thesis used epigraphic, literary and archaeological evidence to explore issues of Hellenization and native identity preservation and presentation in Karia in the 5th–3rd centuries B.C.

Justin graduated from the University of Florida in 2010 with a BA in Classics and Religion. He is the inaugural student in the Sanskrit Language and Literature track.

Meaghan Carley received her BA from Stanford University in 2016, where she wrote an honors thesis on genre, gender, and politics in Catullus. 

Benjamin Driver received his BA in Classics from Dartmouth College in 2013. After this, he taught middle and high school Latin and French for five years. While teaching he became interested in the Neo-Latin of the Renaissance and Early Modern period, especially via the lens of Classical reception.

Chris graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 2012 with a double major in Classics and Physics. Before beginning graduate school, he spent four years working as a data science and IT consultant specializing in optimization and database design. Chris is interested in social and cultural history, particularly in using literary, material, and iconographic evidence to examine Greco-Roman cultural practices in their broader Mediterranean context.

Caitlin earned her BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Caitlin’s current research has focused on the Odyssey, and the ways this text may express Archaic self-conscious reflection on the tension between poetic artifice and truth.

Jeremy graduated summa cum laude from Boston University in 2015 with a BA in Ancient Greek & Latin and Religion Studies. His honors thesis examined poetic structure and the politics of gendered bodies in Ovid's Amores.

Gaia graduated from the University of Siena (Universitá degli Studi di Siena) in 2011 with a BA in Literature and Classics, and in 2013 with a MA in Classics (summa cum laude). Gaia's interests include Religious Studies, Roman cultural history, Epigraphy, and both Latin and Greek historiography.

Ella completed a BA and MSt at the University of Oxford before moving to the USA to teach various classical courses for two years at Marlboro College, a small liberal arts college in Vermont.

Doug studied Religion at Columbia University School of General Studies, where he graduated summa cum laude. Doug’s interests currently include Lucretius and Apuleius and their attitudes toward religion.

Stevie received her BA in Classics from Cornell University in 2010. At Brown she is studying the literature of late antiquity.

William received his B.A. in Classics and English from Columbia University in 2013. His current research interests include representations of battle-sites in Roman historiography and the development of Greek dream interpretation. 

Christopher completed his BA in Literae Humaniores at the University of Oxford (New College) in 2017. His undergraduate thesis explored the presentation of the physiological effects of love on the human body in Ancient Greek poetry from Sappho to Meleager, and compared this to how lovers’ bodies are represented in the poetry of Cavafy.

Avi Kapach earned his B.A. in Classics from Cornell University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 2016. His thesis examined the poetic treatment of time in Greek and Roman literature, focusing particularly on the temporal questions and anomalies which arise in tragedy and epic.

Itamar received his BA in the humanities and arts from Tel Aviv University in 2016. During his studies, he became interested in the classical world and subsequently, learned Ancient Greek and Latin.

Lucy received her MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford in 2017, after having graduated from Dickinson College in 2015 with a BA in Classical Studies. While she remains interested in questions of identity and self-representation in the late Republic, Lucy is particularly looking forward to broadening her knowledge of ancient authors at Brown.

Kelly received her B.A. from Stanford University in 2012 where she double majored in Archaeology and Classics (honors, highest distinction). Kelly has also studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (Fall 2010).

Alvaro earned his B.A. in Classical Studies from Santa Clara University in 2011 and his M.A. in Classics from the University of Arizona in 2014, where he received awards for ancient Greek and academic excellence. Alvaro's research revolves primarily around Augustan literature and its transmission.

Fiona earned her BA in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford (New College) in 2016. Her undergraduate work included a thesis on various representations of women of the imperial family in the reign of Hadrian, as compared to imperial women of earlier periods and to the contemporary example of Antinous.

Trigg Settle joined the Classics Department at Brown in 2012, after receiving an MA in Comparative Literature and Classics from The University of New Mexico. He specializes in Ancient Greek poetry, and his research focuses on the use of dramatic texts as literary and historical documents, their use as living scripts for theatrical performances, and inherent tensions in these different applications in the tragic tradition.

Erika's dissertation, “The Virgilian Tradition in Colonial Latin America,” utilizes Latin, Spanish and Portuguese sources to reconstruct the context in which Latin poetry was taught, received, and produced in colonial Latin America. 

Marko Vitas is a first year PhD student in Classics at Brown University. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Classics from University of Belgrade summa cum laude (thesis title: “A comparative analysis of six Serbian and Croatian translations of Vergil’s Aeneid”) and a Master’s degree in Classics from the same university (thesis title: “Greek stars on Roman skies: Comparative analysis of three Ancient Roman translations of Aratus’ Φαινόμενα”).

Preston received a B.A. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013 and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Wake Forest University in 2019. For four years, Preston taught high school Latin and Classical Rhetoric.

Qizhen earned his M.A. in History at University of New Hampshire in 2019. His main interest lies in the Hellenistic world, particularly in the development of administration and bureaucracy from early to mid Hellenistic period (cir. 300-150 BCE).

Michael received a B.A. with Highest Honors in Philosophy and a B.A. in Classics from the University of Virginia in 2015. His honors thesis dealt with competing theories of practical rationality in connection with Socrates’ theory of pleasure in Protagoras.