Graduate Students
Sophia Alkhoury
Research Interests:
Ancient Greek and Roman magic and religion; the Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies; hymnody; sacrificial practices; mystery cults; theurgy
Cohort Year:
2020
Arshy Azizi
Research Interests:
Homer, epic, oral-formulaic composition; the manuscript tradition, textual transmission; Alexandrian scholarship; Greek intellectual history.
Cohort Year:
2020
Kodie Bastian
Research Interests:
Historiography and fictional narratives; Greek conceptions of the world; generic boundaries and requirements; philology; Armenian reception of the classical tradition.
Cohort Year:
2022
Laura R. Bevilacqua
Research Interests:
Anthropology and the Classics; Greek and Roman religions; Personifications; Cultural representations; Mythology; Reception Studies
Cohort Year:
2018
Richard Ciołek
Research Interests:
Imperial Roman history and literature. Roman conceptions of empire, ethnicity, and identity—especially regarding Egypt and Egyptians. Ancient Mediterranean kingship. Political metaphor. Greek papyrology.
Cohort Year:
2024
Eleanor Cunningham
Research Interests:
Lucan; early Christians; Epicureanism; Late Antiquity; Eastern Roman Empire; Augustine; revolt; Platonism; Classics & antiquity in the colonial Americas; utopianism; ecology; ascetics
Cohort Year:
2025
David Delbar
Research Interests:
Homer; Classical Tradition; Gender and Queer Theory
Cohort Year:
2018
Kaicheng Fang
Research Interests:
Roman political thought, Roman law, Ancient political philosophy, History of political thought, the reception of the Classical philosophical tradition.
Cohort Year:
2020
Chris Griffin
Research Interests:
ancient humor, wordplay, ancient religion, late antiquity, classical reception, translation studies
Cohort Year:
2025
Julia Irons
Research Interests:
Archaic Greek poetry; Greece and Anatolia, especially Lydia and Phrygia; ancient music and performance; historiography
Cohort Year:
2020
Nathan Katkin
Research Interests:
Historiography of Rome in Latin and Greek; ancient ideas about government; ancient ideas about the past; prose style; Sanskrit narrative literature
Cohort Year:
2020
Elizabeth McNamara
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy, especially Euripides; Senecan tragedy; theatre and performance; reception of Greek poetry in English Modernist literature
Cohort Year:
2022
Jordan Nemec
Research Interests:
Archaeology of Ritual and Performance; Sacred Landscape of Ancient Nubia; Ancient Mediterranean Religion; Temple Architecture; Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Travellers; Semiotics; Materiality and Assemblage Theory; Classical Reception.
Cohort Year:
2024
Arie Neuhauser
Research Interests:
Social and cultural history of Byzantium; Medieval Greek literature; Local communities and their relationship with the state; Comparative study of political culture
Cohort Year:
2023
Rebecca Posner-Hess
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy and epic, ancient performance, metatheater, theatrical costume, embodiment, materiality, silence, metaphor, spatiality
Cohort Year:
2021
Daniel Ruprecht
Research Interests:
History of emotions and their poetic representations; literary translation; reception; performance; pedagogy; Renaissance classicisms; ancient education.
Cohort Year:
2022
Lucía Sánchez Mendoza
Research Interests:
Greek lyric and iambic poetry, characterization and representation of selfhood in lyric, papyrology.
Cohort Year:
2023
Samuel Shoemaker
Research Interests:
Ancient poetry and philosophy, the history of the novel, the body, humor and horror.
Cohort Year:
2024
Isabella Spagnuolo
Research Interests:
Latin poetry, embodiment, transformation, ancient dance, pantomime, Lucian.
Cohort Year:
2023
Madelaine Thompson
Research Interests:
Latin literature, comedy, satire, the application of cognitive science and theory to classics
Cohort Year:
2018
Jimmy White
Research Interests:
Homer; choral lyric (Stesichorus, Simonides, Bacchylides); Attic tragedy (Sophocles); love and friendship; forms of fellow-feeling (empathy, compassion, care); affect theory; animal studies; children’s literature
Cohort Year:
2019
韩阳 HAN Yang
Research Interests:
Greek and Coptic magic (Greek, Egyptian), medicine (Latin, Arabic), manuscripts (Beneventan, Turfan); religious history in late antiquity (esp. Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Mandaeism); Hebrew and Aramaic languages and linguistics.
Cohort Year:
2023
Benjamin Yates
Research Interests:
The intersection of poetry and philosophy; embodiment; digital humanities; grammar and translation.
Cohort Year:
2019
Chenxi Zhang
Research Interests:
Narratives and poetics; Greek literary history; reflection on philosophical themes in literature
Cohort Year:
2022