Research
Recent Dissertations
Ancient Mediterranean World Students
2005-2006
- Brien Garnand, “The Use of Phoenician Infant Sacrifice in the Formation of Ethnic Identities” (Christopher Faraone; Jonathan Hall; Ian Morris).
2004-2005
- John O. Hyland, "Tissaphernes and the Achaemenid Empire in Thucydides and Xenophon" (Jonathan Hall; Matthew Stolper: Theo van den Hout).
- Carolina López-Ruiz, "The Sons of Earth and the Starry Heaven: Greek Theogonic Traditions and their Northwest Semitic Background" (Jonathan Hall; Christopher Faraone; Dennis Pardee).
- Benjamin Stevens, "The Origins of Language in Greek and Roman Thought" (Jonathan Hall; Richard Saller; Brian Krostenko).
- Ilse Müller, "Strategies for Survival: Widows in the Context of their Social Relationships" (Richard Saller; Ralph Johnson; Campbell Grey).
2003-2004
- Ian Strachan Moyer, "At the Limits of Hellenism: Egyptian Priests and the Greek World" (Christopher Faraone; Robert Ritner; Jonathan Z. Smith).
2001-2002
- Sarah Thea Cohen, "Exile in the Political Language of the Early Principate" (Richard Saller; Shadi Bartsch; Peter White).
Classical Languages and Literatures Students
2005-2006
- Fanny Dolansky, “Ritual, Gender and Status in the Roman Family” (Shadi Bartsch; Richard Saller; Peter White; Keith Bradley).
- Daniella Reinhard, “Playing Dead: Hades and Idolatry in Sophocles and Homer (Danielle Allen; Nick Rudall; Laura Slatkin).
2004-2005
- Stacie Raucci, "Gazing Games: Propertius and the Dynamics of Vision" (Shadi Bartsch; David Wray; Nick Rudall).
2003-2004
- Keven Grady Hawthorne, "Rhetoric and Discursive Frameworks in Sophoklean Agones" (Danielle Allen; James Redfield; Laura Slatkin).
2002-2003
- Neil A. Coffee, "Belli Commercia: Violent Exchange in Vergil's Aeneid" (Shadi Bartsch; David Wray; Martha Nussbaum).
- Elizabeth A. Manwell, "Slips of the Tongue: Catullus' Oral Aesthetic" (Ralph Johnson; David Wray; Shadi Bartsch).
- Christopher Star, "Action and Self-Control: Apostrophe in Seneca, Lucan, and Petronius" (Shadi Bartsch; Martha Nussbaum; David Wray).
2001-2002
- Edith Foster, "Material Culture in Thucydidean Narrative" (Danielle Allen; Helma Dik; Jonathan Hall).
- J. Andrew Foster, "Structured Polyphony: Narrative Framing and Reception in Theocritus Idylls 6, 15 and 24" (Christopher Faraone; David Wray; Elizabeth Asmis).
- William C. Stull, "The Representation of Authority in Cicero's Dialogues" (Peter White; Robert Kaster; Shadi Bartsch).
2000-2001
- Daniel S. Richter, "Ethnography, Archaism, and Identity in the Early Roman Empire" (Christopher Faraone; Jonathan Hall; Shadi Bartsch; Fritz Graf).
- Christine Saavedra, "Women on the Verge of the Roman Empire" (Richard Saller; Ralph Johnson; Jonathan Hall).
1999-2000
- Jill L. Connelly, "Renegotiating Ovid's Heroides" (Ralph Johnson; Laura Slatkin; David Wray).
- Keith D. Jones, "Controlling Love: Imagination, Subordination, and Alienation in Ovid's Amores" (Ralph Johnson; Laura Slatkin; David Wray).
- Anatole Mori, "Alliance, Ambush, and Sacrifice: Political Authority in Apollonius' Argonautica" (Elizabeth Asmis; Christopher Faraone; Laura Slatkin).
- Jon Berry, "Narrative and Identity in Heliodorus' Aithiopika" (Elizabeth Asmis; Ralph Johnson; Peter White).