Undergraduate Research in Classics
Theses 2010–2022
2023
*Transgender Rome by Gabriel Ashe-Jones, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures Advisor: Naomi Weiss; Asst. Advisor: Emily Mitchell
*How Science Got a History: The Making of a Discipline and the Classical Ideal by Connor Chung, concentrator in History of Science & Classical Civilizations Advisors: Irene Peirano Garrison and Alex Csiscar
Classics War, Cold War, Culture War: Exploring the New Traditionalist Paradigm in the Battle for American Education by Jaden Dey Deal, concentrator in Classical Civilizations & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Advisors: David Elmer and Michael Bronski
The Power of a Name: Religious Experience, Representation, and Leadership through Feminine and Gender Non-Conforming Liturgy by Angela Eichhorst, concentrator in Comparative Study of Religion & Classical Languages and Literatures Advisors: Giovanni Bazzana and Joseph Kimmel
The Concept of Τύχη in Polybius and Zosimus by Clair Fu, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures Advisor: Alex Riehle; Asst. Advisor: Connor North
Ius Gentium: Cosmopolitanism from Cicero to Du Bois by Esteban Gutierrez, concentrator in Government & Classical Civilizations Advisors: Jared Hudson and Richard Tuck
Asklepieia to Basileias. Hospital to City by Samuel Ho, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures Advisor: Mark Schiefsky; Asst. Advisor: John Kee
From Rome to Byzantium: Continuities in Roman and Byzantine Historiography by Joseph Kester, concentrator in Ancient History Advisors: Rachel Love and Dimiter Angelov
The Gods Are Dead: Furial Agency and Unseated Divinity in Statius’ Thebaid by Amy Lu, concentrator in Classical Civilizations Advisor: Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Vivian Jin
Ελληνικοί Χοροί: The Poetic Movement of the Soul: Bridging Modern and Ancient Dance by Maria Theodore, concentrator in Classical Civilizations Advisor: Greg Nagy; Asst. Advisor: Felipe Soza
Carp Diem: Fishponds and Roman Moral Decline by Ivor Zimmerman, concentrator in Classical Civilizations Advisor: Jared Hudson; Asst. Advisor: Greta Galeotti
2022
Harmonia in Love and War by Ethan Arellano, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Natasha Bershadsky; Asst. Advisor: Jorge Wong Medina
Translatio Imperii et Studii: American Classical Education and Reception in the Progressive Age by Charlotte Berry, joint concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures & Government
Advisors: Emma Dench and Celia Eckert; Asst. Advisor: Justin Miller
*Ioci Nudandarum Mimarum: Uncovering the Roman Floralia by Anna Cambron, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Harry Morgan; Asst. Advisor: Rebecca Deitsch
Julius Caesar and his Centurions: A Study in the Power of Words by Philip Geanakoplos, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Emma Dench; Asst. Advisor: Stephen Shennan
Res Publica Res Populi? A Study of Ciceronian Populism by Molly Goldberg, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Government
Advisors: Jared Hudson and Richard Tuck; Asst. Advisor: Stephen Shennan
An Optimality Theoretic Account of Vowel Weakening by Benjamin LaFond, joint concentrator in Linguistics and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Kevin Ryan; Asst. Advisor: Nadav Asra
Layers of Antiquity: An Epigraphic Analysis of Cy Twombly’s Poetic Inscriptions by Sam Lincoln, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature
Advisors: David Elmer; Asst. Advisor: Tony Shannon
*‘INTER EXEMPLA ERIT’: Germania in Tacitus and Its Use by Early German Humanists by Zelin Liu, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature
Advisors: Richard Thomas and Ann Blair; Asst. Advisor: Emily Mitchel
Selim the ‘Algerine’: Exploring an Odyssey in Early Colonial America by Fariba Mahmud, joint concentrator in History & Literature and Classical Civilizations
Advisors: Natasha Bershadsky and Arianne Urus; Asst. Advisor: Felipe Soza
The Environment of Disease: From Karkinos to Cholangiocarcinoma by Abigail Miller, joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Mark Schiefsky & Fernando Camargo; Asst. Advisor: Xiaoxiao Chen
*The Earth’s Stretchmarks: Winds as Directional Systems Generated from the Ground in Mesopotamia and Greece by Ana Luiza Nicolae, special concentrator in Geography & Identity
Advisors: Paul Kosmin and Mark Schiefsky
If a Picture Never Lies: Musicalizing Vergil’s Bucolics by Harry Sage, joint concentrator in Music and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Richard Thomas and Chaya Czernowin; Asst. Advisor: Susannah Wright
Love Beyond the Grave: The Development of Ariadne’s Discovery on Sarcophagi by Midge Scheftel, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Adrian Stähli; Asst. Advisor: Sarah Eisen
Consolation and Tears in the Works of Augustine by Esther Um, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Jared Hudson; Asst. Advisor: John Mulhall
Ad Astra: A Modern Adaptation of Hercules’ Twelve Labors by Jonathan Yuan, joint concentrator in Art, Film, & Visual Studies and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Rachel Love & Young Joo Lee; Asst. Advisor: Julia Judge Mulhall
2021
Trinitarian Sensation: A Commentary and Translation of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate 11.1-6 by Joseph Anthony Ramos Barisas, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Adam Trettel, Asst. Advisor: Suzanne Paszkowski
Pierre Gassendi: From Epicureanism to Christian Ethics by Frances Choi, joint concentrator in History & Science and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Mark Schiefsky; Asst. Advisor
Terrorism, Rhetoric, and the Forever Wars in Rome and America by Lincoln Herrington, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and Government
Advisors: Emma Dench and Harry Oppenheimer; Asst. Advisor: William Tilleczek
An Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Psychosis: From Antiquity to Modern Research by Emily Johns, joint concentrator in Neuroscience and Classical Civilizations
Advisors: Mark Schiefsky and Martha Shenton; Asst. Advisor: Miriam Kamil
Stories of the Antonine Plague and the Significance of Pandemic Disease in the Roman Empire by Mikayla Morosky, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Mark Schiefsky; Asst. Advisor: Xiaoxiao Chen
Examining the Authenticity of Plato’s Epistle VII through Deep Learning by Bliss Perry, joint concentrator in Computer Science and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Mark Schiefsky and Stuart Shieber; Asst. Advisor: Nadav Asraf
*To Revive a World and Rebuild a Word: Classical Slave Names and Their Afterlives in the Antebellum U.S. South by Serena Shah, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and African American Studies
Advisors: Paul Kosmin and Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Asst. Advisor: Justin Miller
Boundaries, Pirates, Connectivity, and Brexit: Britain’s Role in the Maritime Networks of the Roman Empire by Justin Tseng, joint concentrator in Ancient History
Advisor: Emma Dench; Asst. Advisor: Supratik Baralay
Architectural Iconography on Roman Imperial Coins: Monumentality, Miniaturization, and the Role of the Viewer by Katherine Vallot-Basker, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Harry Morgan; Asst. Advisor: Malcolm Nelson
Selected Poems from Ovid’s Tristia, Prefaced with a Poetics of Translation by Muhua Yang, joint concentrator in Comparative Literature and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Richard Thomas and Thomas Wisniewski; Asst. Advisor: Rebecca Deitsch
2020
Insulting Slaves in Latin by Sasha Barish, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Linguistics
Advisors: Kathleen Coleman and Jay Jasanoff; Asst. Advisor: Nadav Asraf
The Peace of Women: An Arabic Adaptation of Aristophanes by Lydia Cawley, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Advisors: Richard Thomas and Annette Lienau; Asst. Advisor: Justin Miller
*Voicing Tragedy: A Realization of Ancient Greek Music by Christopher Colby, joint concentrator in Music and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Alexander Rehding and Naomi Weiss; Asst. Advisor: Hannelore Segers
Nubem Eripiam: Exploring the Narrative Manipulation of Virgil, Aeneas, and Augustus by Julie Effron, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisors: Richard Thomas and Gregory Mellen; Asst. Advisor: Miriam Kamil
*aliquis est ex me pius?: Seneca’s Phoenissae and Its Early Modern Reception by Caroline Engelmayer, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Richard Tarrant and Leah Whittington; Asst. Advisor: Paul Johnston
Making Meaning in the Cults of Vesta and Flora Under Augustus: A Literary, Historical, and Anthropological Analysis by Samantha Hand, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Kathleen Coleman; Asst. Advisor: Chris Cochran
Theseus and the Amazons: Images of the Ideal and the Other in the Context of the Greco-Persian Wars by Micah Johnson-Levy, joint concentrator in Folklore & Mythology and Classical Civilizations
Advisor: David Elmer; Asst. Advisor: Paul Johnston
“Antinous, Superstar” – The Cult of Antinous in Greece and Asia Minor by Sherida Marsh, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Emma Dench; Asst. Advisor: Supratik Baralay
In the Wake of Theseus: Intertextuality and Reception in the Lament of Catullus’ Ariadne by Samuel Puopolo, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Hannelore Segers
*Local Migration in the Arsinoite Nome of Egypt during the Early Principate by Alejandro Quintana, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Giovanni Bazzana and Paul Kosmin; Asst. Advisor: James Zainaldin
The Cretan Hero: Intertextuality, Identity, and Resistance in Prevelakis’ Το Δέντρο by Ben Roy, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Sergios Paschalis
Love's Grief Work: Reading Ancient Greece in the AIDS Elegies of Paul Monette and James Merrill by Ellis Yeo, joint concentrator in English and Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Leah Whittington and Richard Tarrant; Asst. Advisor: Jorge Wong
2019
Dissolving Identity: De-constructing the Third Reich Through the Cinematic Dissolve by Benjamin Altshuler, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and German Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Gregory Nagy and John Hamilton; Asst. Advisor: Alexander Schwennicke
* ‘Was it for this . . . ?’: Lyricism and Narration in Virgil, Wordsworth and Faulkner by Chloe Brooks, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and English
Advisors: Richard Thomas and Jim Engell; Asst. Advisor: Stephen Hughes
Divina Testimonia from a Pagan Oracle: Constantine’s Use of the Sibyl in his Oratio ad Coetum Sanctorum by Jack Clark, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: James Taylor
The Eclogues of Virgil: Politics and Aesthetics by Richard Dunn, Concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Paul Johnston
Cyprianum imitando vixerunt: Defining Martyrdom in Augustine’s Sermones ad populum 309 and 313E by Meredith Jones, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and English
Advisor: Charles Stang; Asst. Advisor: Michael Ennis
Truth in Art: Heidegger’s Recovery of the Truth of Hegelian Dialectic by Jennifer Lowell, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Philosophy
Advisors: Gregory Nagy and Sean Kelly; Asst. Advisor: Suzanne Paszkowski
Possessed by the Voice of God: Josephus’ Portrayal of the Prophecy of Moses in Judean Antiquities by Theo Motzkin, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Advisors: Gregory Nagy and Jon D. Levenson; Asst. Advisor: Keith Stone
A Linguistic and Cultural Study of Curse Tablets from Roman Britain by Ned Sanger, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Kathleen Coleman; Asst. Advisor: Nadav Asraf
The Roman Presence at Dura-Europos: A History in Reverse by Joseph Valente, joint concentrator in Ancient History
Advisors: Emma Dench and Paul Kosmin; Asst. Advisor: Supratik Baralay
The Aristocratic Populist: Rhetoric and Politics in Cicero’s Pre-Consular Speeches, 81–63 BCE by Justin Walthier, joint concentrator in Ancient History
Advisors: Emma Dench and Jared Hudson; Asst. Advisor: James Zainaldin
*‘Ius Migrandi’? – References to Ancient Rome in the German Public Debate on Policies and Practices Regarding Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers by Adrian Weickart, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and Government
Advisors: Adrian Stähli and Briitta van Staalduinen; Asst. Advisor: Anthony Shannon
The Squeaky Voice of the Laws: A Paradox of Democracy in Plato’s Crito by Cole Whetstone, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Russell Jones; Asst. Advisor: Suzanne Paszkowski
2018
In silvis Academia surgit: Latin Learning in Seventeenth-Century New England by Theodore Delwiche, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Ann Blair (History); Asst. Advisor: Massimo Cè
Consuetudinis magna vis est: Change, Continuity, and Creating Community in Republican Morgantina, 211 – ca. 35 BCE by Matthew DeShaw, concentrator in Ancient History
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench; Asst. Advisor: Anthony Shannon
Initium Turbandi Omnia a Femina Ortum Est: Gendered Transgression in Livy and Tacitus by Thomas Dumbach, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Christopher Cochran
Garden Paths: Text, Context, and Intertext in Columella’s De Cultu Hortorum by Phoebe Lakin, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: James Taylor
On the Most Famous Book You’ve Never Heard Of, Or, The Life and Times of Cicero’s De Officiis by Victor Mezacapa, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky; Asst. Advisor: Marco Romani Mistretta
Are You Mad or Are You Bad? The Pathology of Evil in Ciceronian Invective by Jiha Min, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench; Asst. Advisor: James Zainaldin
Can I Hit My Computer? Actions Towards Objects in Virtue Ethics by Gregory Scalise, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations & Philosophy
Advisors: Professors Mark Schiefsky and Jacob Rosen (Philosophy)
2017
Empire Embodied: Space and Boundaries in Tacitean Historiography of the East and West by Nicholas Ackert, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Eliza Gettel
“Befitting Emblems of Adversity”: Seamus Heaney’s Aeneid VI by Talia Boylan, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Keating McKeon
The Specter of Tyranny: Athenian Democracy and Empire in the Fifth Century by David Clifton, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Paul Kosmin; Asst. Advisor: Dr. Sergios Paschalis
“Forgive Us Our Debts, as We Have Forgiven Our Debtors”: Interpersonal Loans, Conflict, and Accountability in Hellenistic Egypt by Denis Fedin, concentrator in Ancient History
Advisors: Professors Paul Kosmin and Emma Dench (History)
Las Huellas del Clasicismo: The Reception of Ancient Rome in Franco’s Spain by Emily Gaudiani, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Charles Bartlett
“The Dawn of a Real Revolution”: A Reinterpretation of Infant Sacrifice at the Phoenician Tophets by Mireya Hernandez, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations & Anthropology
Advisors: Professors Mark Schiefsky and Richard Meadow (Anthropology)
Elements of Colonization under Emperor Augustus: the Case of Augusta Praetoria by Douglas Maggs, concentrator in Ancient History
Advisors: Professors Kathleen Coleman and Emma Dench (History)
A Masterpiece of Visual Indeterminacy: The Nike of Samothrace Recontextualized by Colleen O’Leary, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations & History of Art & Architecture
Advisors: Professors Adrian Staehli and Joseph Connors (HAA)
Female Bodies in Flux: Visualizing Nudity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings by Hyemi Park, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky; Asst. Advisor: Dr. Sergios Paschalis
Gods Among Men: Understanding Divine Status in the ‘Imperial Cults’ by Patrick Sanguineti, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench; Asst. Advisor: Katherine van Schaik
2016
Constructing Rigor and Leveraging the Quantitative: Euclid, Archimedes, and the Transformation of Hellenistic Mathematics and Physics by Roman Berens, joint concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures & Physics
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky; Asst. Advisor: Amy Koenig
Law and Nature in Plato’s Republic by Joshua Blecher-Cohen, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations & Philosophy
Advisors: Professors Mark Schiefsky and Jacob Rosen (Philosophy); Asst. Advisor: Alexander Forte
*The Ancient Reception of an Epic Alexander the Great by Emily Ciciotte, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Gregory Nagy; Asst. Advisor: Charles Bartlett
The Perils of the Sea: the Ethics of Seafaring in Roman Poetry by Tyler Dobbs, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. Advisor: Marco Romani Mistretta
Putting the Au in Dolaucothi: Investigating the Life and Community at a Gold Mine in Roman Wales through Spain and Dacia by Thomas Earle, concentrator in Ancient History
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman; Asst. Advisor: Anthony Shannon
Fleeing from Men: Refusal and Diakrisis in the Desert Fathers by Todd Jones, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Charles Stang (Divinity School); Asst. Advisor: Coleman Connelly
Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll: The Presence of Dionysus in American Pop Culture by Anne Power, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisor: Professor Albert Henrichs; Asst. Advisor: Tyler Flatt
Fallow Ground, Hallowed Ground: An Exploration of Religious Disuse of Land in the Eastern Mediterranean by Talia Saal, concentrator in Classical Languages & Literatures
Advisors: Professors Gregory Nagy and Shaye Cohen (NELC); Asst. Advisor: Samantha Blankenship
Roman Widows of Late Antiquity in Theory and Practice by Veronica Wickline, concentrator in Ancient History
Advisor: Professor Naomi Weiss; Asst. Advisor: Michael Konieczny
2015
*Petronius in the 1920s: Eliot, Fitzgerald, and the Invention of a Modern Arbiter by William Dingee, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Leah Whittington; Asst. advisor: Amy Koenig
Nec turpe est, quod dominus iubet: The Multivalence of Sex, Performance, and Failure in Petronius' SATYRICON and its Roman Context by Zachary Fletcher, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench; Asst. advisor: Elizabeth Mitchell
The Letters of Maia Isotta: Edition, Commentary, and Translation by Rebecca Frankel, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Jan Ziolkowski; Asst. advisor: David Ungvary
Analyzing Dietary Treatments for Epilepsy: From Galen to Modern Research by Rebecca Glasser, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky; Asst. advisor: Rebecca Katz
I See the Better Course: Six Women's Speeches of Decision in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Forrester Hammer, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant; Asst. advisor: Sarah Lannom
Deadly Control: Regulation and Management of Roman Gladiatorial Spectacle, Inside and Outside the Area by Michael Hughes, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman; Asst. advisor: Charles Bartlett
Staging Truths in the Theater of War: An Analysis of American Civil War Era Photographs and Second Century a.d. Roman "Historical" Reliefs by Catherine Kistler, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and History
Advisor: Professor Adrian Stähli; Asst. advisor: Anthony Shannon
From Love of Leisure to Love of Neighbor: The Development of St. Augustine's Appreciation for the Life of Service by Edward Love, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Dr. Albertus Horsting; Asst. advisor: David Ungvary
Study in Madness: The Portrayal of Cambyses II in Herodotus' Histories by Shunella Lumas, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor David Elmer; Asst. advisor: Amy Koenig
The Variability of Myth: Ancient Representation and Appropriation of the Gigantomachy by Gabriel Molina, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor David Elmer; Asst. advisor: Rebecca Katz
Perge, Ira, Perge: Apostrophe in Senecan Tragedy by Benjamin Selden, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant; Asst. advisor: Sarah Lannom
Quantifying Crawford: A Statistical Analysis of Roman Republican Coins (157–50 BC) by Oluwatobi Tikolo, joint concentrator in Classics and Statistics
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky; Asst. advisor: Gregory Mellen
"Everybody Is In It": Tragedy and Toni Morrison's Beloved by Erin Williams, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Naomi Weiss; Asst. advisor: Gregory Mellen
*Constructing Antigonid Kingship: Monarch, Memory, and Empire in Hellenistic Macedonia by Elliot Wilson, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Paul Kosmin; Asst. advisor: Samantha Blankenship
Engineering Ingenium: Improving Engagement and Accuracy with the Visualization of Latin for Language Learning by Sharon Zhou, joint concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures and Computer Science
Advisors: Professor Mark Schiefsky, Dr. Ivy Livingston
2014
The Golden Age: Paradise Lost or Left Behind? by Georgiana Brinkley, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Gregory Nagy; Asst. advisor: Sarah Lannom
*Samothrace: A Hellenistic Middle Ground by Joe Glynias, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Paul Kosmin; Asst. advisor: Coleman Connelly
Ciceroniani Sunt, an Christiani?: The Reception of the Classics in the Late Antique Church by Aurora Griffin, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant; Asst. advisor: David Ungvary
Modern Meaning-Making in Ancient Imperial Monuments by Laura Hogikyan, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench; Asst. advisor: Monica Park
Connectivity at Vindolanda: Human and Natural Resources by Nikhil Mulani, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench; Asst. advisor: Rebecca Katz
Ransomed Shadows by Madeline Smith, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and Music
Advisor: Professor Gregory Nagy
Proles sine matre creata: Inventing a Roman Literary Tradition in the Satires of Gaius Lucilius by Caleb Thompson, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant; Asst. advisor: Gregory Mellen
The Original Word Jumble: A Case Study of Latin Word Order in the Vindolanda Tablets by Naomi Wills, joint concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures and Linguistics
Advisor: Professor Jeremy Rau; Asst. advisor: Alexander Forte
2013
Res Olim Dissociabiles: Praise and Censure in Tacitus' Agricola by Michael Cowett
, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. advisor: Thomas Keeline
Face Value: Minting a Multi-Ethnic Currency; Language, Portraiture, and Iconography on Indo-Greek and Graeco-Bactrian Coins by Anjali Itzkowitz, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Gregory Nagy; Asst. Advisor: Daniel Bertoni
Illuminating the Shadows of Eclogue 10.75–77: An Investigation of Image and Ethics by Christopher Londa
, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. advisor: Rebecca Miller
The Metrical Function of the Personal Name in Martial's Epigrams by Fana Yirga
, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. advisor: Julia Scarborough
*Resonant Rhetoric and Unheard Melodies: Roman Imperial Oratory in Text and Art by Alexa Zahl, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant; Asst. advisor: Julia Scarborough
2012
*The Gods and Governors of the Roman Provinces by Jill R. Carlson, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman; Asst. advisor: Duncan MacRae
Polemical Prose: Political Subversion in Petronius’ Satyricon by Andrew Coffman, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. advisor: Yvona Trnka-Amrhein
*Intus habes quem poscis: Cannibalism from Thyestean Banquets to the Last Supper by Schuyler Daum, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Albert Henrichs; Asst. advisor: Andrew Johnston
From infamis to imperator. The Changing Role of the Actor in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome by Nicholas Dube, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and History
Advisors: Professor Kathleen Coleman, Professor Emma Dench; Asst. advisor: Sarah Rous
On Translating Horace’s Odes: Aesthetic and Cultural Problems of Translation in Theory and Practice by Erik Frederiksen, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. advisor: Lauren Curtis
Excesses of Epic and Empire: A Study of Openings and Encomia in Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan by Arthur Kaynor, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas; Asst. advisor: Philip Pratt
“Daughter of Ares, Warlike Queen”: Gender and Power in Hellenistic θεὰ Ῥώμη Cults by Athena Lao, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Paul Kosmin; Asst. advisor: Robert Cioffi
The Truncus of Pompey in Lucan’s Pharsalia by Christopher McCarthy, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Dr. Andreas Thomas Zanker; Asst. advisor: Julia Scarborough
A Most Curious Comparison: Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico, the Column of Trajan, and the Expression of Romanitas in Diverse Media by Alison Rittershaus, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Christopher Krebs; Asst. advisor: Andrew Johnston
Boundaries, Transition, and Ritual in Euripides’ Hippolytus by Lauren Russell, concentrator in Classical Civilizations
Advisor: Professor Gregory Nagy; Asst. advisor: Elizabeth Engelhardt
Literacy and Social Anxiety in the Second-Century Roman Empire by Madeleine Schwartz, joint concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures and History
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman; Asst. advisor: Yvona Trnka-Amrhein
From Mummius to Caesar: Public Space and Memory in Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis by John Sigmier, joint concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures and Anthropology
Advisor: Professor Adrian Stähli; Asst. advisor: Andrew Johnston
The Art of Life: Philosophical Study and Performance in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Gina Trakadas, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky; Asst. advisor: David Camden
The Drunk, the Drowned, and the Nude: Metaphor and Genre in Corpus Hermeticum VII by Michael Velchik, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Albert Henrichs; Asst. advisor: Duncan MacRae
2011
Reading Between the Lines: The Interaction of Text and Space in Roman Epigraphy by Benjamin Bayley, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman
*Who Wishes to Speak? Freedom of Speech and Classes of Speakers in Classical Athens by Raquel Begleiter, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Albert Henrichs
Quid stemmata faciunt? The Changing Roles of the Roman Nobility from the Late Republic to the Principate by Patrick Brennan, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman
Ars Admirabilis:Transcendent and Transgressive Artists in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Charlie Bridge, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant
Russia’s Appian Way: How the Classics Shaped Imperial Identity from Peter I to Alexander I by Jordan Bryant, joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench
When Opposites Attract: Reading Plato’s Symposium as an Instruction in the Power of Paradox by Signe Conway, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky
Euripides’ Bakkhai: A New Translation in Verse and Prose by Felice Ford, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Albert Henrichs
Deviant Diners: An Examination of Guests and Hosts in Roman Literature by Ann Forman, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Richard Tarrant
Sealed With a Kiss: Mediated Communication in Chariton’s Callirhoe by Iya Megre, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor David Elmer
For Better, for Worse: Marriage and Citizenship as Compensating Mechanisms in Roman Society by Sara Mills, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman
Μανία Μουσῶν by Nicholas Nehamas, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Mark Schiefsky
Visual Power: The Colosseum as a Political Tool in Rome by William Newell, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Kathleen Coleman
Inventing the Roman City by Kyle Ralston, concentrator in Classical Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Professor Emma Dench
2010
*Der Spiegel der Zeit: The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and the Story of Modern Latin Lexicography by Christian Flow, concentrator in Classics
Advisor: Professor Christopher Krebs
Exile, Youth and Family: Methods of Evoking Sympathy in the Latter Half of Vergil’s Aeneid by Veronica Rey Koven-Matasy, concentrator in Classics
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas
*An Onymous Poem: Identity and Genre in Lycidas by Mary Anne Marks, joint concentrator in Classics and English
Advisor: Professor Richard Thomas
Magister Gregorius and the Marvels of Rome: Translating a City into Text, Navigating Structure and Rhetoric by Emily Virginia Meredith Walker, concentrator in Medieval Latin
Advisor: Professor Jan Ziolkowski
*The Jew, the Furnace, and the Virgin: a Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary on a Greek Version of the “Jewish Boy Legend” by Michael Wesley Zellmann-Rohrer, concentrator in Classics
Advisor: Professor John Duffy