Graduate Students
Amber Ace
Research Interests:
Plato, Epicureanism (and Hellenistic philosophy more generally), Lucretius, gender and sexuality, ethics, animal studies
Cohort Year:
2015
Sophia Alkhoury
Research Interests:
Ancient Greek and Roman magic; Latin poetry; satire; Senecan tragedy; gladiators in literature; observation and performance in literature
Cohort Year:
2020
Laura R. Bevilacqua
Research Interests:
Anthropology and the Classics; Greek and Roman religions; Personifications; Cultural representations; Mythology; Reception Studies
Cohort Year:
2018
David Delbar
Research Interests:
Greco-Roman Religion; Greek and Latin Epic; Greek Tragedy; Classical Tradition; Gender and Queer Theory
Cohort Year:
2018
Elizabeth Hunter
Research Interests:
Ancient Science and Mathematics, Reception, Ancient Philosophy, Digital Humanities
Kaicheng Fang
Research Interests:
Roman political thought, Roman law, Ancient political philosophy, Intellectual history of political thought, the reception of the Classical philosophical tradition.
Cohort Year:
2020
Christina Filippaki
Research Interests:
Greek Tragedy; Ancient Religion and Mythology; Homer
Cohort Year:
2018
Eduardo García-Molina
Research Interests:
Seleukid imperial administration and ideology; Hellenistic numismatics and epigraphy; Sexuality and ethnicity in the historiography of Eastern polities; Comparative study of imperialism and empires; Hispanic reception of Classics in the 19th and 20th cen.
Cohort Year:
2018
Julia Irons
Research Interests:
ancient Mediterranean myth and religion; the cultural interface between Greece and the Near East; history and literature of Archaic Greece; music and performance; historiography; Thrace
Cohort Year:
2020
Jordan Johansen
Research Interests:
Cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean; multiculturalism; the Ptolemaic empire; the Achaemenid empire; Cyprus; ancient music and musicians; material culture; anthropological theory/ancient ethnography; Greek, Akkadian, Egyptian
Cohort Year:
2015
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
Caitlin Miller
Research Interests:
Archaic and classical Greek poetry and poetics, Historiography and landscape, Metaphor, and Homeric receptions.
Cohort Year:
2017
M.A.D. Moore
Research Interests:
Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and Boethius
Cohort Year:
2015
David Orsbon
Research Interests:
Allegory and allegoresis; concepts of nature; the reception of the Classical literary and philosophical tradition; the intersection of science, philosophy, and literary criticism
Rik Peters
Research Interests:
intellectual history of the Hellenistic period (including philosophy, science, and literature); attitudes towards wonder (θαῦμα) in Greek thought; imagery of the mind in Greek literature and thought (especially on the speed of thought); philology and text
Cohort Year:
2016
Rebecca Posner-Hess
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy and Theatrics, Metaphorical and Material Textiles, Conceptions of the Body and its Borders, & Expressions of Memory and Mourning
Cohort Year:
2021
Rebekah Spearman
Research Interests:
Archaic Greece, Pindar, Adoption, Children and the Family, Monsters, Women in Myth, Reception, Ancient Agriculture, Lyric Poetry, Greek Law
Cohort Year:
2014
Goda Thangada
Research Interests:
Historiography, materiality, Latin literature, Renaissance classical scholarship
Madelaine Thompson
Research Interests:
Latin literature, comedy, satire, the application of cognitive science and theory to classics
Cohort Year:
2018
David Williams
Research Interests:
Athenian drama, intellectual history of classical and archaic Greece
Cohort Year:
2014
Benjamin Yates
Research Interests:
The intersection of poetry and philosophy; embodiment; digital humanities; grammar and translation.
Cohort Year:
2019