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
      
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
