# PhD Recipients ## expand\_more ![View of Harvard graduation from stage photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2024-10/graduation%20crop.jpg?h=c9d7cd2f&itok=EiSl-05g) ## 2025–26 ### 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 --- ## 2024–25 ### 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 --- ## 2023–24 ### 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 --- ## 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 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 --- ## 2021–22 ### 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 --- ## 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 ### 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 --- ## 2019–20 ### 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 --- ## 2018–19 ### 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 --- ## 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 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 --- ## 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, 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 --- ## 2015–16 ### 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 --- ## 2014–15 ### 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 ---