PhD Recipients

Greta Galeotti

Classical Philology, November 2025

Dissertation           "The Language of Lesbian Lyric: Local Tradition and Epic Influence in Sappho and Alcaeus"
Current Position     Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University
 

Vivian Jin

Classical Philology, November 2025

Dissertation           "Virgilian Vision and Voice"
Current Position     Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society, NYU Shanghai

John Kee

Byzantine Studies, May 2026

Dissertation           "Philology and Empire in Michael Choniates"
Current Position     Postdoctoral Fellow, ESPRIT (Early-Stage Program: Research – Innovation – Training), Austrian Science Fund, Central European University, Vienna
 

Phoebe Lakin

Classical Philology, May 2026

Dissertation           "Tending the Plot: Literary Ecology and the Reception of Virgil’s Georgics"
Current Position     Postdoctoral Fellow, Loeb Classical Library Foundation
 

Allison Resnick

Classical Philology, May 2026

Dissertation           "Poetry under Pressure: The Impact of Imperial Regime Change on Martial, Book 10"
Current Position     Proctor and Teaching Assistant, Harvard University
 

Philip Wilson

Medieval Latin, May 2026

Dissertation           "Apocalypse in Arcadia: Eschatological Elements in Latin Pastoral"
Current Position     Medieval history teacher, Lycée Français of Los Angeles
 

Xiaoxiao Chen

Classical Philosophy, November 2024

Dissertation           "Discovery and Purity in Archimedes"
 

Julia Judge Mulhall

Classical Archaeology, May 2025

Dissertation           "Beholding Greece: Viewing Panhellenic Sanctuaries in Late Antiquity"
Current Position     Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
 

Emily Mitchell

Classical Philology, May 2025

Dissertation           "Remembering the Enslaved and the Emancipated in Latin Verse Epitaphs, Epigrams, and Poems of Consolation"
Current Position     Postdoctoral Fellow, Loeb Classical Library Foundation
 

Andrew Ntapalis

Modern Greek, May 2025

Dissertation           "A Metanational Modernism: Yannis Ritsos, Tradition, and the Poetics of Return"
Current Position     Preceptor in Classics, Harvard University
 

Hannelore Segers

Classical Philology, November 2024

Dissertation           "Paraphrasis and Cento: A Comparative Analysis of Late Antique Greek and Latin Versification"
Current Position     Early Materials Cataloger at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
 

Alexander Vega

Classical Philosophy, May 2025

Dissertation           "Augustine on Friendship and Belief"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College
 

Jorge Wong Medina

Classical Philology, November 2024

Dissertation           "Homer and the Lesbians: Dialect Variation in Archaic Greek Poetry"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Richmond
 

Louis Zweig

Medieval Latin, November 2024

Dissertation           "The Biblical Exodus in Late Antique and Early Medieval Latin Poetry"
Current Position     Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows
 

Sarah Eisen

Classical Archaeology, May 2024

Dissertation           "Recreating Olympus on Earth: A Synaesthetic Approach to Ancient Greek Animal Sacrifice"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History, Northwestern University
 

Marina Haworth

Classical Archaeology, November 2023

Dissertation           "Desiring Athletes: the Meaning of Athletic Imagery on Red-Figure Athenian Symposium Pottery"
Current Position     Faculty, North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN
 

Justin Miller

Classical Philology, May 2024

Dissertation           "Shapeshifting Tongues: Linguistic Consciousness in the Hellenistic World"
Current Position     Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows
 

Davide Napoli

Classical Philology, May 2024

Dissertation           "A Grammar of Democracy: Antilogy, Politics, and Literature in Classical Greece"
Current Position     Klarman Fellow, Cornell University
 

Malcolm Nelson

Ancient History, May 2024

Dissertation           "Regulating Empathy in Ancient Greece"
Current Position     Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
 

Stephen Shennan

Ancient History, May 2024

Dissertation           "Making Roman Monarchy: Tiberius, Second King of Rome"
Current Position   Postdoctoral Fellow, Fellowships & Writing Center, Harvard University and Visiting Lecturer in Classical Studies, Wellesley College
 

Susannah Wright

Classical Philology, May 2024

Dissertation           "Sunt Lacrimae Rerum: Decorum and Grief in Ancient and Medieval Latin Epic"
Current Position     Assistant Professor, Rice University
 

Nadav Asraf

Classical Philology, May 2023

Dissertation           "The Middle Category in the Aorist Tense in the Homeric Epics: A Study of Form vs. Function"
Current Position     Preceptor in Classics, Harvard University
 

Supratik Baralay

Ancient History, May 2023

Dissertation           "Arsacid Asia: Sovereignty, Subjection, and the Making of the Silk Roads"
Current Position     Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows (2023–26); Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University (2026–)
 

Rebecca Deitsch

Classical Philology, May 2023

Dissertation           "Constructing Goddesses: Gender and Politics in Flavian Epic"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College 
 

Paul Johnston

Classical Philology, May 2023

Dissertation           "The worlds of Roman literature: Bilingual culture, imperial power and literary tradition in the ancient Mediterranean"
Current Position     Mellon Fellow, Stanford University
 

Felipe Soza

Ancient History, May 2023

Dissertation           "The Antigonid Imperial System: Sovereignty and Politics of Empire in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classics, Williams College

Miriam Kamil

Classical Philology, May 2022

Dissertation           "Personification and Emotion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses"
Current Position     Assistant Professor in Latin Literature, Stanford University
 

Suzanne Paszkowski

Classical Philosophy, May 2022

Dissertation           "Disease and Desire: Perspectives on Addiction from Ancient Greek Poetry, Philosophy, and Medicine" 
Current Position     Psychoanalyst in training
 

Alexandra Schultz

Classical Philology, November 2021

Dissertation           "Imagined Histories: Hellenistic Libraries and the Idea of Greece"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College (2023–);
 

Anthony Shannon

Classical Archaeology, May 2022

Dissertation           "Ad perpetuitatis memoriam: Citizenship Performance and Social Memory in the Public Sphere at Lepcis Magna"
Current Position     Founder at Collegium Admissions and Senior Consultant at Quad Education Group, Teaching Assistant at Harvard University

Samantha Blankenship

Classical Philology, March 2021

Dissertation           "Managing the Past: Influences of Achaemenid Imperial Historiography on the Greek Historians of Persia"
Current Position     Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee

Christopher Cochran

Classical Philology, November 2020

Dissertation           "Postliminium: Enslavement and Return in the Ancient Novel"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts at University of Massachusetts Boston
 

Massimo Cè

Classical Philology, May 2020

Dissertation           "From mēnis to ira: Ancient Translators of Homer"
Current Position     Lecturer, University of Basel, Switzerland

 

Eliza Gettel

Ancient History, November 2019

Dissertation           "Between Federation and Empire: The koina of the imperial Greek mainland, 1st to 3rd century CE"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University
 

David Hansen

Modern Greek, May 2020

Dissertation           "Visions of Statesmanship: A Statesman's Imagination and Autonomy"
 

Keating McKeon

Classical Philology, May 2020

Dissertation           "Despotic Nostalgias: Classical Athens and the Autocratic Return"
Current Position     Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
 

James Taylor

Classical Philology, May 2020

Dissertation           "Plumbing the Depths: Geological Processes, Deep Time, and the Shaping of Landscapes in Classical Literature"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classics, Colby College
 

James Zainaldin

Classical Philosophy, May 2020

Dissertation           "Roman Technē: The Growth and Structure of the Artes in the Early Roman Empire"
Current Position      Assistant Professor of Classics, Vanderbilt University

Calliope Dourou

Modern Greek, March 2019

Dissertation           "Reciting the Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes and the poetics of a Renaissance epos"
Current Position     Associate Instructional Professor in Modern Greek, University of Chicago
 

Michael Konieczny

Classical Philology, May 2019

Dissertation           "Public Discourse and Imperial Ideology in the Annals of Tacitus"
Current Position     Health Insurance Specialist, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 

Elizabeth Mitchell

Classical Archaeology, November 2018

Dissertation           "The other classical body: cupids as mediators in Roman visual culture"
Current Position     Senior Advisor, Natural England

Charles Bartlett

Ancient History, November 2017

Dissertation           "Roman Political Economy and Legal Change: The Effects of Empire on Property in Roman Law"
Current Position    Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Gregory Mellen

Classical Philology, May 2018

Dissertation          "Deliberative Fictions: Isocrates' Assembly Speeches"
 

Monica Park

Ancient History, May 2018

Dissertation           "The Mortal Divine: Callimachus and the Making of an Imperial Theology"
Current Position     Strategy Lead, Gemic
 

Marco Romani Mistretta

Classical Philology, May 2018

Dissertation           "Invention and Discovery in Greek and Roman Thought"
Current Position     Treasurer and Director of European Operations, Paideia Institute
 

James Townshend

Classical Philology, March 2018

Dissertation           "Horace and the Ancient Grotesque"
Current Position     Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Loyola University, Chicago
 

David Ungvary

Medieval Latin, May 2018

Dissertation           "Verse and Conversion: Poetship, Christianity, and the Transformation of the Roman World, AD 400–700"
Current Position     Associate Professor of Classics, Bard College
 

Katherine van Schaik

Ancient History, May 2018

Dissertation           "Medical Decision Making in Greco-Roman Antiquity"
Current Position     Assistant Professor, Musculoskeletal Radiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with appointments in Classics and Computer Engineering

David Camden

Classical Philology, November 2016

Dissertation           "Medicine and Cosmology in Classical Greece: First Principles in Early Greek Medicine"
Current Position     Classics Teacher, St. Paul's School
 

Tyler Flatt

Classical Philology, March 2017

Dissertation          "Redeeming Epic: Furor, Classical Tradition, and Christian Cosmos in Late Antiquity"
Current Position    Assistant Professor, Boyce College 
 

Alexander Forte

Classical Philology, May 2017

Dissertation           "Tracing Homeric Metaphor"
Current Position     Assistant Professor, NYU
 

Amy Koenig

Classical Philology, May 2017

Dissertation           "The Tongueless Nightingale: Loss of Voice in the Literature of the Roman Empire"
Current Position     Assistant Professor, Hamilton College

Coleman Connelly

Classical Philology, May 2016

Dissertation           "Contesting the Greek Past in Ninth-Century Baghdad"
Current Position     Senior Manager, Deloitte
 

Rebecca Katz

Ancient History, May 2016

Dissertation           "Arma virumque: The Significance of Spoils in Roman Culture"
Current Position     Latin Teacher, Waterford School
 

Sarah Lannom

Classical Philology, May 2016

Dissertation           "Pindaric Aspects of Ovid's Metamorphoses"
Current Position     Teacher, The Brearley School
 

Sarah Rous

Classical Archaeology, May 2016

Dissertation           "Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens"
Current Position    Senior Project Editor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Rebecca Miller Brown

Classical Philology, May 2015

Dissertation          "The Roman Odysseus"
Current Position    Academic Technologist, Clark University
 

Saskia Dirkse

Byzantine Greek, May 2015

Dissertation           "The Great Mystery: Death, Memory and the Archiving of Monastic Culture in Late Antique Religious Tales"
Current Position    Postdoctoral Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
 

Erika Nickerson

Classical Philology, May 2015

Dissertation           "The Measure of All Things: Natural Hierarchy in Roman Republican Thought"
Current Position     Senior Operations Administrator, Cambridge Associates
 

Sergios Paschalis

Classical Philology, May 2015

Dissertation           "Tragic palimpsests: The reception of Euripides in Ovid’s Metamorphoses"
Current Position     Upper School Latin Teacher, St. John's School, Houston, TX
 

Julian Yolles

Medieval Latin, May 2015

Dissertation           "Latin literature and Frankish culture in the Crusader States (1098–1187)"
Current Position     Publishing Manager at Brepols Publishers NV