Students

Graduate Students

Program in Classical Languages and Literatures (PCLL)

Abigail Akavia. BA (Classics), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007.
Research Interests: Choral lyrics; tragedy (ancient and modern); ancient cult and rites of passage; gender and metamorphoses; ancient concepts of voice and vocality.

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; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2009.
Research Interests: Greek language and literature; linguistics; ancient history, social structure, ethnicity, and cultural change.

Marcos Gouvêa. 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.

Andrew Horne. BA (Classics), Brown, 2011.
Research Interests: Virgil and Augustan poetry, ancient and modern philosophy, St. Augustine and Catholic theology.

Samuel Hotchkiss. BA (Classics), Reed College, 2010.
Research Interests: meter; literary, linguistic, and aesthetic theory; Greek (and other) lyric and epic.
Recent papers: “Spondaic Old Men: A Study in the Metrical Determination of Character,” CAPN/CACW Joint Meeting, Spring 2010.

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.

Branden Kosch. BA (Classical Languages), Oberlin College, 2010.
Research Interests: Greek and Latin linguistics; literary theory; Greek and Latin prose style.

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), Stanford, 2003; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2010.
Research Interests: Greek mathematics and philosophy; storytelling and rhetoric in Plato's dialogues; digital humanities.
Publication: "Response to Reviel Netz, 'What did Greek mathematicians find beautiful?'", Classical Philology 105.4 (October 2010): 444–9.
Recent Papers: “Mathematical method as the basis for image-making in the Republic,” First Graduate Conference of the Ancient Philosophy and Science Network, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 2011; “Scholarly editing in the digital age: the Archimedes Palimpsest as a case study,” Panel on digital research and developments in collaborative work in the Classics, APA, Anaheim, January 2010.

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

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.

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: Ancient and modern aesthetics, Aristotle, and tragedy.

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

Jessica Seidman. BA (Classics), Brown University, 2002; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2008.
Research Interests: Catullus; Ovid; Tacitus; memory and commemoration in Latin literature.
Recent Papers: “Modeling on ‘Zeuxis Selecting Models’: Catullus 51 and the Aesthetic of Eclecticism,” Bryn Mawr Graduate Group Symposium, December, 2009; “A Literary Love: The Identical Identities of Catullus and Lesbia in Poems 51 and 68,” CAMWS, 2010; “A Portrait of Grief: Tacitus’ Ecphrasis at Annales I.61,” APA, San Antonio, January 2011.
Dissertation: “Loci Memoriae: Place and Memory in Latin Literature.”

Natalie Trevino. BA (Classics), Trinity University, 2011.
Research Interests: Homeric epic; Greek religion and myth; Linguistics.
Upcoming Publication: Explanatory Notes on Books 13-24 for Edward McCrorie’s new translation of the Iliad.

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World (PAMW)

Kate Agnew. BA (Classics), Reed College, 2009.
Research Interests: ancient medicine and healing, intellectual history, cultural contact and exchange in Asia Minor, epigraphy, digital humanities methodologies.

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.
Recent Papers: “A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod’s Cult in the Works and Days,” Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Duke University, October 2009; “The Ritual Battle that Almost Happened: The Conflict over Thyreatis in Argive Politics of 421-417 B.C.” Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2010.
Publications: “The Unbreakable Shield: Thematics of Sakos and Aspis.” CPh 105 (2010): 1–24; “A Picnic, a Tomb and a Crow: Hesiod’s Cult in the Works and Days.” HSCP 106 (2011).

Charlotte Brisbois. 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: Hellenistic Cyprus and the Near East; Ptolemaic imperialism; economic and social history; epigraphy; numismatics.
Recent Papers: “The Role of Cyprus and Cypriot Mints in the Ptolemaic Monetary Economy,” POCA, Oxford, 2009. “The Ptolemaic Army in Cyprus: Garrisons and Interaction with Cypriot Society,” POCA, University of Venice, 2010; “Money, Empire, and the Coinage of the King: Cypriot Integration into the Ptolemaic Monetary Economy through the Numismatic Evidence,” CAARI Lecture Series, Nicosia, 2011.
Dissertation: “Land of Experiment: The Ptolemies and the Development of Hellenistic Cyprus, 312-58 BC.”

Julie Mebane. BA (History and Classical Languages), Scripps College, 2011.
Research Interests: ancient historiography, empire in the Mediterranean, the Greek farm.

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: magic, religious art and architecture, ancient Christianity and Judaism, women in ancient religion.
Recent Papers: "Magical Charms and Miraculous Cures among Greek Fever Amulets," Bridges Between Life and Death: Dionysus, Mysteries and Magic in the Ancient Greek and Roman World Symposium, Chicago, 2009; "Faith or Family? Jewish Epitaphs from Rome," APA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2008; "Mary in the Temple: A New Look at Jewish Women in the Protevangelium of James," SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2007.

Sailakshmi Ramgopal. BA (Classics), Northwestern University, 2006; Post-Baccalaureate Program (Classical Studies), University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Research Interests: Roman Republican history; ancient colonization; Roman visual culture; numismatics; epigraphy; Sophoclean tragedy.
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; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2009.
Research Interests: Ancient magic in Greco-Egyptian and Judeo-Christian traditions; textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; ancient economics.

Paul Ioan Vădan. BA (History and Classical Studies), McGill University, 2009; MA (Classical Studies), McGill University, 2011.
Research Interests: Hellenistic history and society, inter-state interaction, polis culture, Ptolemaic Egypt, ancient religion, Greek epigraphy.
Publications: "Patterns of Continuity in Geto-Dacian Foreign Policy Under Burebista", Hirundo, 2008; "The Evolution of the Study of the Hellenistic Period", Hirundo, 2010.
Recent Papers: "Ephesos after Alexander", CAC Annual Meeting, Halifax, May 2011.

Bart Van Wassenhove. MA (History), Ghent University, 2006; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2008.
Research Interests: therapeutic approaches to emotions in ancient philosophy, especially stoicism; the interplay between ancient philosophy, rhetoric and poetics; Roman cultural history.
Recent/forthcoming Papers: “Hybridity and healing in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy” (MMLA, Chicago, 2010); “Shame and moral progress in Seneca’s Letters” (APA, Philadelphia, 2012).
Publication: “The Representation of Galba in Suetonius,” Athenaeum (2008): 623–34.
Dissertation: “Shame and moral progress in Seneca’s Philosophy” (working title).

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.