PhD Recipients
2022–23
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 Continuing Education Instructor and Teaching Assistant, 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
Rebecca Deitsch
Classical Philology, May 2023
Dissertation "Constructing Goddesses: Gender and Politics in Flavian Epic"
Current Position Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Kenyon College
Paul Johnston
Classical Philology, May 2023
Dissertation "The worlds of Roman literature: Bilingual culture, imperial power and literary tradition in the ancient Mediterranean"
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
2021–22
Miriam Kamil
Classical Philology, May 2022
Dissertation "Personification and Emotion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses"
Current Position Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
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–);
Junior Research Fellow, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (2021–2023)
Anthony Shannon
Classical Archaeology, May 2022
Dissertation "Ad perpetuitatis memoriam: Citizenship Performance and Social Memory in the Public Sphere at Lepcis Magna"
Current Position Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University GSAS Fellowships & Writing Center
2020–21
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
2019–20
Massimo Cè
Classical Philology, May 2020
Dissertation "From mēnis to ira: Ancient Translators of Homer"
Current Position Fellow, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
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
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, and Instructor at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education
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
2018–19
Calliope Dourou
Modern Greek, March 2019
Dissertation "Reciting the Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes and the poetics of a Renaissance epos"
Current Position Preceptor in Modern Greek, Harvard University
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
2017–18
Charles Bartlett
Ancient History, November 2017
Dissertation "Roman Political Economy and Legal Change: The Effects of Empire on Property in Roman Law"
Current Postion. 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 Senior Strategist, Gemic
Marco Romani Mistretta
Classical Philology, May 2018
Dissertation "Invention and Discovery in Greek and Roman Thought"
Current Position Treasurer/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 Assistant Professor, Bard College
Katherine van Schaik
Ancient History, May 2018
Dissertation "Medical Decision Making in Greco-Roman Antiquity"
Current Position Resident in Diagnostic Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; American Board of Radiology Holman Research Pathway Resident; Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Program in Science, Religion, and Culture, Harvard University
2016–17
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 of Humanities, Boyce College
Alexander Forte
Classical Philology, May 2017
Dissertation "Tracing Homeric Metaphor"
Current Position Lecturer in Greek Literature and History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amy Koenig
Classical Philology, May 2017
Dissertation "The Tongueless Nightingale: Loss of Voice in the Literature of the Roman Empire"
Current Position Assistant Professor of Classics, Hamilton College; Fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
2015–16
Coleman Connelly
Classical Philology, May 2016
Dissertation "Contesting the Greek Past in Ninth-Century Baghdad"
Current Position Pursuit 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 Project Editor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2014–15
Rebecca Miller Brown
Classical Philology, May 2015
Dissertation "The Roman Odysseus"
Current Position Assistant Director, Graduate Student Programming, The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard 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 Fellow at the ParaTexBib project, 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
2013–14
Daniel Bertoni
Classical Philology, May 2014
Dissertation "The Cultivation and Conceptualization of Exotic Plants in the Greek and Roman Worlds"
Current Position Degree candidate at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Vladimir Bošković
Modern Greek, May 2014
Dissertation "The Ethos of Language and the Ethical Philosophy of Odysseus Elytis"
Current Position Content Manager, Hogarth Worldwide
Claire Bubb
Classical Philology, May 2014
Dissertation "Galen's Anatomy: Audience and Context"
Current Position Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University
Tom Keeline
Classical Philology, May 2014
Dissertation "A Rhetorical Figure: Cicero in the Early Empire"
Current Position Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Andrea Kouklanakis
Classical Philology, November 2013
Dissertation "Satire, Blame Poetics, and the Suitors in the Homeric Odyssey"
Current Position Teacher of Latin, Greek, and Humanities, Bard High School Early College, New York; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, New York
Julia Scarborough
Classical Philology, May 2014
Dissertation "The Silent Shepherd: Pastoral as a Tragic Strategy in Virgil’s Aeneid"
Current Position Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Amherst College
2012–13
Robert Cioffi
Classical Philology, May 2013
Dissertation "Imaginary Lands: Ethnicity, Exoticism, and Narrative in the Ancient Novel"
Current Position Assistant Professor of Classics, Bard College
Lauren Curtis
Classical Philology, May 2013
Dissertation "On with the Dance! Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry"
Current Position Associate Professor of Classics, Bard College
Tiziana D'Angelo
Classical Archaeology, May 2013
Dissertation "Painting Death with the Colors of Life: Funerary wall painting in South Italy (IV-II BCE)"
Current Position Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek and Roman Art, University of Nottingham; Director, Archaeological Park of Paestum and Velia
Andrew Johnston
Ancient History, November 2012
Dissertation "The Sons of Remus: Memory, Community, and the Construction of Local Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain"
Current Position Associate Professor of Classics, Yale University
Duncan Macrae
Ancient History, May 2013
Dissertation "The Books of Numa: Writing, Intellectuals and the Making of Roman Religion"
Current Position Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Parrott
Classical Philology, May 2013
Dissertation "The Geography of the Roman World in Statius’ Silvae"
Current Position Visiting Assistant Professor, Providence College
Richard Short
Classical Philology, November 2012
Dissertation "Religion in Cicero"
Current Position Co-founder and Director of Finance and Operations, Costello Medical
Yvona Trnka-Amrhein
Classical Philology, May 2013
Dissertation "A Study of The Sesonchosis Novel"
Current Position Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder