Alumni

Graduate Alumni

2012–2013

Paul Keen
Dissertation: “Land of Experiment: The Ptolemies and the Development of Hellenistic Cyprus, 312–58 BC.”

2011–2012

Deborah H. Cromley
Dissertation: “Voce Privatus: Speech, Silence, and Human Entanglement in Language in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”

Raymond Kania
Dissertation: “Audax Iuventa: Virgil’s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction.”

Thomas Keith
Dissertation: “Blood, Toil, Tearless Sweat: Sparta in Philosophical Thought of the Late Republic and Early Empire.”

Teresa Lemieux
Dissertation: “The Agency and Affection of Pity in Sophocles.”

Rana Saadi Liebert
Dissertation: “Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and the Platonic Critique of Poetic Pleasure.”

Katherine Milco
Dissertation: “Perpetua’s Two Audiences: the Passio as a Sacred Performance”

2010–2011

Daniel Bandstra
Dissertation: “The Art and Nature of the Sublime in the Peri Hupsous of Longinus.”

Hannah Minkus
Dissertation: “Encountering Mortality: Life, Death, and Divine Identity in the Major Homeric Hymns.”

Aaron Seider
Dissertation: “Creating the Past: Memory in Virgil’s Aeneid.”
Currently Fellow, Memoria Romana Project.

Frances Spaltro
Dissertation: “Dancing for Athena: the Pyrrhic Dance and the Perfect Citizen in Plato’s Laws.”
Currently Latin Teacher, the Laboratory School.

2009–2010

Edward Dandrow
Dissertation: “Strabo and Greek Identity in the Age of Augustus: Memory, Tradition, and Ethnographic Representation.”
Currently Instructor, University of Central Florida

2008–2009

Philip Venticinque
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

Ari Bryen
Dissertation: “Violence, Law, and Society in Roman and Late Antique Egypt.”
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.

Janet Downie
Dissertation: “Professing Illness: Healing Narrative and Rhetorical Self-Presentation in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi.”
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University.

Robert Germany
Dissertation: “Mimetic Contagion in Terence’s Eunuchus.”
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Haverford College.

John Paulas
Dissertation: “Athenaeus and the Advantages of Philology.”
Formerly Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Davidson College.

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

2006–2007

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

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

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

James Sullivan
Dissertation: “Thucydides Politicus: The Political Dimensions of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War.”

2005–2006

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

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

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

2004–2005

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

Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
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.

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

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

Stacie Raucci
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

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

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

2002–2003

Neil Coffee
Dissertation: “Belli Commercia: Violent Exchange in Vergil’s Aeneid.”
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Elizabeth Manwell
Dissertation: “Slips of the Tongue: Catullus’ Oral Aesthetic.”
Currently Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Kalamazoo College.

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

2001–2002

Edith Foster
Dissertation: “Material Culture in Thucydidean Narrative.”
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ashland University.

Andrew Foster
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.

William Stull
Dissertation: “The Representation of Authority in Cicero’s Dialogues.”
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Colgate University.

Sarah Cohen
Dissertation: “Exile in the Political Language of the Early Principate.”
Formerly Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Dalhousie University.

2000–2001

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

Christine Saavedra
Dissertation: “Women on the Verge of the Roman Empire.”

1999–2000

Jill Connelly
Dissertation: “Renegotiating Ovid’s Heroides.”

Keith Jones
Dissertation: “Controlling Love: Imagination, Subordination, and Alienation in Ovid’s Amores.”

Anatole Mori
Dissertation: “Alliance, Ambush, and Sacrifice: Political Authority in Apollonius’ Argonautica.”
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Missouri at Columbia.

Jon Berry
Dissertation: “Narrative and Identity in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika.”

1998–1999

David Dodd
Dissertation: “Heroes on the Edge: Youth, Status and Marginality in Fifth-Century Greek Narrative.”

Radcliffe Edmonds
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.

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

Christopher Siciliano
Dissertation: “Labor and Justice: A Pattern of Allusions in Virgil’s Georgics.”

Geert Van Cleemput
Dissertation: “Aristotle on Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics.”

1997–1998

Eugene Adam
Dissertation: “Tense and Aspect in Roman Historiographic Narrative: A Functional Approach to the Prose of the Memoria Rerum Gestarum.”

Joseph T. Baruffi
Dissertation: “Naval Warfare Operations in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.”
Director of Student Relations at Valparaiso University School of Law

Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox
Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Myth in the Isocratean Corpus.”
Professor and Chair, Department of English, and Director of the Classical Studies Program, University of Missouri Kansas City.

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

David Wolfsdorf
Dissertation: “Aporia in Plato’s Charmides, Laches, and Lysis.”
Currently Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Temple University.

1996–1997

Jerry Andrews
Dissertation: “The Father’s Discipline: Religious Ideas and Social Roles in Clement of Alexandria.”

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

Victoria E. Pagan
Dissertation: “Tacitus Plus: The Poetics of Disguise.”
Currently Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, University of Florida.

Mark D. Usher
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

Andrew Wolpert
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

Denise M. Laskey
Dissertation: “An Examination of the Literary Sources Helpful in Interpreting the Metaphor of Skopos as Used in the Ethical Texts of Plato and Aristotle.”

Catherine M. Mardikes
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

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

Laura McClure
Dissertation: “Rhetoric and Gender in Euripides: A Study of Sacrifice Actions.”
Currently Professor, Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

1990–1991

Brenda Fineberg
Dissertation: “Configurations of Desire in the Elegies of Tibullus.” Currently Professor, Knox College.

1989–1990

Raymond W. Ciacci
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.