Students

Graduate Students

Program in Classical Languages and Literatures (PCLL)

Brad Atwell. BA (Classics), Washington University, 2000; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2006.
Research Interests: Roman history; state formation; general systems theory.

Daniel Bandstra. BA (Classical Studies), College of Wooster, 2004; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2007.
Research Interests: Greek Linguistics; Roman Elegiac Poetry.

Geoffery Benson. BA (Classics), Princeton University, 2006; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2008.
Research Interests: Latin Epic (especially Statius' Achilleid); Roman myth; the Hellenistic period; early Christianity.

Ursula C. Bergstrom. BA (Physics), Wesleyan University, 1998.
Research Interests: scholarly and literary work done at the Alexandrian Museum; Ptolemaic Egypt more generally.

Jeremy Brightbill. BA (History), Liberty University, 1999; Certificate in Applied Linguistics, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, 2001; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.
Research Interests: Greek language and literature; linguistics; ancient history, social structure, ethnicity, and cultural change.

Carin Lee Calabrese. BA (Liberal Arts), St. Johns College, 1991; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 1997.
Research Interests: Greek Tragedy; Feminist Theory; Literary Theory.
Dissertation: "Euripides' Tragedies of Resistance: Troades, Hecuba, Andromache."
Most Recent Papers: "Domination and Agency in the Troades," APA Meeting, Montreal, January 2006; "Male Beauty Contests in Ancient Greece," Summer Language Institute at the University of Chicago, summer 1999; "Kassandra's Epinikian," CAMWS Conference, Cleveland OH, spring 1999.

Deborah H. Cromley. BA (Classics), Smith College, 1988; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 1994.
Research Interests: The novel (ancient and modern); literary criticism; ancient rhetorical theory and practice.
Most Recent Papers: "Representations of Women in the Discourse on Democracy: A reading of [Demosthenes] 59 and Xenophon?s Oeconomicus," APA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, December 1994.

Edward Dandrow. BA (English and Psychology), University of Central Florida, 1992; MA (Classical Civilization), Florida State University, 1997; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2006.
Research Interests: Greek and Latin literature; ancient history; ethnography.
Dissertation: "Strabo and Greek Identity in the Age of Augustus: Memory, Tradition and Ethnographic Representation."

Shawn Deeley. BA (Classics), University of Houston, 2001; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2003.
Research Interests: Latin literature of the Late Republic and Early Principate; Roman historiography; the Classical Tradition.
Dissertation: "Conversing with Crowds: The Crowd and the Masses in Roman Literature."

Marcos Gouvea. BA (Classics and English), Williams College, 2005; BA (Classics), University of Cambridge, 2007; MPhil (Classics), University of Cambridge, 2008.
Research Interests: patristics; education in late antiquity; the classical tradition in literature and its reception (especially epic).

Will Hackman. BA (Philosophy), Rhodes College, 2004; MA (Humanities), University of Chicago, 2006.
Research Interests: Greek lyric poetry; mimesis; Pre-Socratic philosophy.

Linda Haddad. BA (Classics and English), Loyola Marymount University, 2000.
Research Interests: ancient and modern literary criticism; Latin poetry of the Late Republic and Early Empire; poetic translation.

Jodi Haraldson-Noonan. BA (Classics), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000; MA (Classics), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2003.
Research Interests: Ovid; Latin literature of the Late Republic and Early Empire; Roman culture.

Nicholas Houlahan. BA (Classics), Colby College, 2001; BA (Classics), King's College Cambridge, 2003; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2006.
Research Interests: ancient philosophy, particularly early Greek philosophy and cosmology.
Most Recent Paper: "Empedocles' Cosmic Thinking," Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop, May 2008.

Tobias Joho. BA (Literae Humaniores), University of Oxford, 2004; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2006.
Research Interests: Greek Tragedy; Thucydides; Plato; Philhellenism in literature and philosophy from Goethe until Heidegger (joint degree with Committee on Social Thought).

Emily Jusino. BA (Classics and Theater), College of William and Mary, 2001; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2004.
Research Interests: Ancient theater; mythology.

Raymond Kania. BA (Classics), The University of Michigan, 2002; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2003.
Research Interests: Greek and Latin poetry, especially bucolic; ancient literary criticism, including the idea of fiction.
Most Recent Papers: "The Lament for Bion as Bucolic Fiction," Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, April 2005.

Samantha Leah La Peter. BA (Religion), Swarthmore College, 2000; MA (Religion), University of Chicago Divinity School, 2006.
Research Interests: Greek literature in general; more specifically, representations of the divine, allegory and allegorical interpretation, satire, and the Second Sophistic.

Kevin Lam. BA (English), Colgate University, 2001; MA (Classics), Columbia University, 2004.
Research Interests: Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire.

Alexander Lee. BA (Classics and Computer Science), Stanford, 2003.
Research Interests: Greek mathematics and philosophy; cognitive history; storytelling and rhetoric in Plato's dialogues.
Recent Papers: "The hypothetical method and philosophical image-making in Plato's Republic", Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2008; "The mathematical and the poetic: imaginative arguments in Plato's Republic", Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, June 2008.

Teresa Lemieux. BA (Classics and Drama), University of Dallas, 2001; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2005.
Research Interests: Ancient Emotion; Tragedy and Comedy; Performance History.
Most Recent Paper: "Transforming relationships through emotional expression in Sophocles' Electra," UVa Graduate Student Colloquium, February 2008.

Rana Saadi Liebert. BA (Classics), Bard College, 2001; MA (Classics), Yale University, 2003; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2006.
Research Interests: archaic poetry and platonic philosophy; ancient and modern literary theory; hellenistic poetry (especially Theocritus).
Dissertation: "Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and the Platonic Critique of Poetic Pleasure."

Katherine Milco. BA, Marquette University, 2003; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2004.

Hannah Minkus. BA (Classics), Princeton University, 2002; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2004.
Research Interests: early Greek poetry; ancient religion and cult; Republican and Augustan poetry.

Diana Moser. BA (Classics), Columbia University, 2003; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2007.
Research Interests: Latin literature, especially imagery in Horace; satire.

Benjamin Ogles. BA (English and Classical Languages), Vanderbilt University, 2004.
Research Interests: Vergil, Sophocles, and Classical influence on modern English poetry.

Jonah Radding. Laurea (Classical Philology), Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2007.
Research Interests: Greek Language and Literature, Greek Tragedy, Greek Myth.

Aaron Seider. BA (Classics), Brown University, 2002; Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-4; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2005.
Research Interests: Latin poetry; Greek and Latin lyric; ancient competition.
Dissertation: "Memory in Vergil's Aeneid."
Recent Papers: "A Challenge for Horace: Creating a Lyric Presence in Odes 1.1," CAMWS 2008; "Vergil's Sixth Eclogue and Creative Freedom," CAMWS 2007.

Jessica Seidman. BA (Classics), Brown University, 2002; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2008.
Research Interests: Catullus; Ovid; Roman concepts of originality in poetry and art.
Recent Papers: "'Scelus est Pietas': Pietas and Incest in Ovid's 'Procne and Tereus'," CAMWS 2008; "Annales I.61: A Tacitean Ecphrasis and Its Modern Legacy," Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2008.

Frances Spaltro. BA (Classics and English), San Diego State University, 1991; MA (Classics), San Francisco State University, 1995.
Research Interests: Greek and Roman historiography; ancient and modern Greek dance; Latin and Greek pedagogy; philosophy of education; Greek archaic poetry
Dissertation: "Dancing for Athena: the Pyrrhic Dance and the Perfect Citizen in Plato's Laws."

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World (PAMW)

Natasha Bershadsky. BA (Psychology and Linguistics), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998; MA (Classical Civilizations), Harvard, 2003.
Research Interests: Homeric and Hesiodic traditions; oral poetry; relation between local and pan-Hellenic; connections between literature and ritual, art and ritual, art and literature; Proto-Indo-European poetics; Northwest Semitic and Anatolian languages and cultures.
Most Recent Papers: "Death of Kebriones: Diving Birds, Mockery and Local Tradition," APA Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2005; "Unbreakable Shield: A Difference between sakos and aspis in the Iliad," APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2004.

Charlotte Franklin. BA (Classics), University of Michigan, 2008.
Research Interests: Ancient military history; Greek tragedy; comparative mythology.

Kassandra Jackson. BA (Classics), Princeton University, 2007; MPhil (Ancient History), University of Oxford, 2009.
Research Interests: ancient magic, religion, epigraphy, Greek tragedy, poetry.
Recent Papers: "Separate but Equal: The Establishment of the Bendidea at Athens," Graduate Student Work in Progress, Oxford, May 2009; "Becoming Omphaloi: An Investigation of Polis-ness in Classical Greece." Forthcoming Publications: "Father-Daughter Dynamics in the Iliad".

Paul Keen. BA (Classics and Greek), Franklin & Marshall College, 2002; MA (Ancient History), University of London, 2003; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2005.
Research Interests: Greek economic history; epigraphy; literacy; Greek law.

Thomas Keith. BA (Classics, History, and Mathematics), University of Texas at Austin, 2004; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2005.
Research Interests: religion in the Greek polis; Aegean Greece in the Hellenistic period, especially Hellenistic Athens; ancient historiography.

Justin Mansfield. BA (Classical Languages), Macalester College, 1996.
Research Interests: linguistics; Egypt and the Classical world.

Timothy McGovern. BA (Classics and History), University of Chicago, 1999; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2000.
Research Interests: Hellenistic Judaism; notions and representations of time, the past, and the future in antiquity.

Jacobo Myerston. MA (Greek Philology and Religious Studies), Tübingen, 2000; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2007.
Research Interests: Greek and Akkadian literature; history of religions; linguistics.
Publications: "Introducción a la lingüística computacional con una perspectiva interdisciplinaria. Terminometro. Ed. Unión Latina," Número. 6 (2002).

Megan Nutzman. BA (History), Hillsdale College, 1999; MTS (Theological Studies), Holy Cross School of Theology, 2003; ThM (Theology), Holy Cross School of Theology, 2005; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2008.
Research Interests: early Christianity; Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism; religious art and architecture; pilgrimage; ritual; women in ancient religion.

Sailakshmi Ramgopal. BA (Classics), Northwestern University, 2006; Post-Baccalaureate Program (Classical Studies), University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Research Interests: Roman social, legal and economic history; Roman transportation and water supply systems; Sophoclean tragedy; epigraphy; numismatics; ancient identity.
Recent papers: "Italia Restituta: The Economic Policy of Trajanic Road Construction," CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2008.

Walter M. Shandruk. BA (Computer Science), La Salle University, 2000; BA (Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies), Pennsylvania State University, 2006.
Research Interests: Ancient magic in Greco-Egyptian and Judeo-Christian traditions; textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; ancient economics.

Bart Van Wassenhove. MA (History), Ghent University, 2006.
Research Interests: emotions and self-presentation in antiquity; Roman historiography; Greek philosophy in a Roman context; interdisciplinary approaches. Publications: "The Representation of Galba in Suetonius," Athenaeum (2008).
Recent Papers: "Shameful Grief: Emotional Rhetoric in Senecan consolation," Acts of Consolation Conference, London, December 2007.

Emily Wilson. BA (Classics and Anthropology), University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006. MA (Classical Art and Archaeology), University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009.
Research Interests: Greek and Near Eastern Interactions; Ideologies of Power in the Early Iron Age.