Alumni

Graduate Alumni

2008-2009

VENTICINQUE, Philip
Dissertation: "Common Causes: Guilds, Craftsmen, and Merchants in the Economy and Society of Roman and Late Roman Egypt."
Currently Assistant Professor, Cornell College.

2007-2008

BRYEN, Ari
Dissertation: "Violence, Law, and Society in Roman and Late Antique Egypt."
Currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Georgetown University.

DOWNIE, Janet
Dissertation: "Professing Illness: Healing Narrative and Rhetorical Self-Presentation in Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University.

GERMANY, Robert
Dissertation: "Mimetic Contagion in Terence's Eunuchus."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Haverford College.

PAULAS, John
Dissertation: "Athenaeus and the Advantages of Philology."
Currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Davidson College.

SARDI, Francesca
Dissertation: "Psychological Activity in the Homeric Circe Episode."
Currently teaching at the Liceo Statale G.B. Grassi, Lecco, Italy.

2006-2007

BUBELIS, William
Dissertation: "Athenian Sacred Treasurers from Solon to the Persian Wars."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Washington University, St Louis.

BOYLE, Brendan
Dissertation: "The Athenian Courtroom: Politics, Rhetoric, Ethics."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

GOTTESMAN, Alex
Dissertation: "A Branch on the Altar: Supplication and Symbolic Capital in Ancient Greece."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, Temple University.

SULLIVAN, James
Dissertation: "Thucydides Politicus: The Political Dimensions of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War."
Formerly Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University.

2005-2006

DOLANSKY, Fanny
Dissertation: "Ritual, Gender, and Status in the Roman Family."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Brock University.

GARNAND, Brien
Dissertation: "The Use of Phoenician Infant Sacrifice in the Formation of Ethnic Identities."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Whitman College

REINHARD, Daniella
Dissertation: "Playing Dead: Hades and Idolatry in Sophocles and Homer."
Currently Adjunct Professor, American University of Paris.

2004-2005

HYLAND, John
Dissertation: "Tissaphernes and the Achaemenid Empire in Thucydides and Xenophon."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, Christopher Newport University.

LOPEZ-RUIZ, Carolina
Dissertation: "The Sons of Earth and the Starry Heaven: Greek Theogonic Traditions and their Northwest Semitic Background."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University.

STEVENS, Benjamin
Dissertation: "The Origins of Language in Greek and Roman Thought."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Bard College.

MULLER, Ilse
Dissertation: "Strategies for Survival: Widows in the Context of their Social Relationships."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Nipissing University.

RAUCCI, Stacie
Dissertation: "Gazing Games: Propertius and the Dynamics of Vision."
Currently John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Union College.

2003-2004

MOYER, Ian
Dissertation: "At the Limits of Hellenism: Egyptian Priests and the Greek World."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

HAWTHORNE, Kevin
Dissertation: "Rhetoric and Discursive Frameworks in Sophoklean Agones."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Baylor University.

2002-2003

COFFEE, Neil
Dissertation: "Belli Commercia: Violent Exchange in Vergil's Aeneid."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.

MANWELL, Elizabeth
Dissertation: "Slips of the Tongue: Catullus' Oral Aesthetic."
Currently Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Kalamazoo College.

STAR, Christopher
Dissertation: "Action and Self-Control: Apostrophe in Seneca, Lucan, and Petronius."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Middlebury College.

2001-2002

FOSTER, Edith
Dissertation: "Material Culture in Thucydidean Narrative."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ashland University.

FOSTER, Andrew
Dissertation: "Structured Polyphony: Narrative Framing and Reception in Theocritus' Idylls 6, 15 and 24."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, Fordham University.

STULL, William
Dissertation: "The Representation of Authority in Cicero's Dialogues."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Colgate University.

COHEN, Sarah
Dissertation: "Exile in the Political Language of the Early Principate."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Dalhousie University.

2000-2001

RICHTER, Daniel
Dissertation: "Ethnography, Archaism, and Identity in the Early Roman Empire."
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Southern California.

SAAVEDRA, Christine
Dissertation: "Women on the Verge of the Roman Empire."

1999-2000

CONNELLY, Jill
Dissertation: "Renegotiating Ovid's Heroides."

JONES, Keith
Dissertation: "Controlling Love: Imagination, Subordination, and Alienation in Ovid's Amores."

MORI, Anatole
Dissertation: "Alliance, Ambush, and Sacrifice: Political Authority in Apollonius' Argonautica."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Missouri at Columbia.

BERRY, Jon
Dissertation: "Narrative and Identity in Heliodorus' Aithiopika."

1998-1999

DODD, David.
Dissertation: "Heroes on the Edge: Youth, Status and Marginality in Fifth-Century Greek Narrative."

EDMONDS, Radcliffe.
Dissertation: "A Path Neither Simple nor Single: The Use Of Myth in Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College.

OLSON, Kelly.
Dissertation (CAMW): "Fashioning the Female in Roman Antiquity."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario.

SICILIANO, Christopher.
Dissertation: "Labor and Justice: A Pattern of Allusions in Virgil's Georgics."

VAN CLEEMPUT, Geert.
Dissertation: "Aristotle on Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics".

1997-1998

ADAM, Eugene.
Dissertation: "Tense and Aspect in Roman Historiographic Narrative: A Functional Approach to the Prose of the Memoria Rerum Gestarum."

BARUFFI, Joseph T.
Dissertation: "Naval Warfare Operations in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean."
Director of Student Relations at Valparaiso University School of Law

RYDBERG-COX, Jeffrey.
Dissertation: "The Rhetoric of Myth in the Isocratean Corpus."
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, and Director of the Classical Studies Program, University of Missouri Kansas City.

STRUCK, Peter T.
Dissertation (Comparative Literature): "Reading Symbols: Traces of the Gods in the Ancient Greek-Speaking World."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Pennsylvania.

WOLFSDORF, David.
Dissertation: "Aporia in Plato's Charmides, Laches, and Lysis."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Temple University.

1996-1997

ANDREWS, Jerry.
Dissertation: "The Father's Discipline: Religious Ideas and Social Roles in Clement of Alexandria."

KING, Bruce.
Dissertation: "The End of Adventure: On the Future of the Iliadic Hero."
Currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Vassar College.

PAGAN, Victoria E.
Dissertation: "Tacitus Plus: The Poetics of Disguise."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Florida.

USHER, Mark D.
Dissertation: "Homeric Stitchings: A New Text and Interpretation of the Homeric Centos."
Currently Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Classics and Classical Civilization, University of Vermont.

1995-1996

WOLPERT, Andrew.
Dissertation "Rebuilding the Walls of Athens: Democratic Ideology, Civic Discourse, and the Reconciliation of 403 B.C."
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Florida.

1994-1995

LASKEY, Denise M.
Dissertation: "An Examination of the Literary Sources Helpful in Interpreting the Metaphor of Skopos as Used in the Ethical Texts of Plato and Aristotle."

MARDIKES, Catherine M.
Dissertation: "Curses and Conspiratorial Oaths in the Oresteia."
She is now our treasured Bibliographer for Classics and Ancient Near Eastern collections in our very own Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.

1991-1992

DUVICK, Brian.
Dissertation: "A Translation and Commentary on Proclus' In Platonis Cratylum Commentaria."
He now teaches at l'Institut Universitaire de Saint Melaine in Rennes, France.

MCcLURE, Laura.
Dissertation: "Rhetoric and Gender in Euripides: A Study of Sacrifice Actions."
Currently Professor, Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1990-1991

FINEBERG, Brenda
Dissertation: "Configurations of Desire in the Elegies of Tibullus." Currently Professor, Knox College.

1989-1990

CIACCI, Raymond W.
Dissertation: "Plato's Portrait of Socrates: Fact or Fiction?"
Currently Dean of Students and Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program, University of Chicago.