2023

• Christopher Ell, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Pass the Wine: Drinking, Dining, and the Formation of Social Structure and Cultural Identity in the Connected Mediterranean and Near East, ca. 800-450 BCE"

2021

• Stevie Hull, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Education in the Cosmos: Augustine’s Platonic Curriculum of Philosophy and Rhetoric"

• Avichai Kapach, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Contradiction and Truth in Euripides: A Study of the Trojan Women, Helen, and Orestes"

• Kelly Nguyen, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Vercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Inheritance and Vietnamese Ambivalence"

2020

• Justin Byrd, M.A.

• Gaia Gianni, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Fictive Kinship and Roman Childhood: A Social History"

• Trigg Settle, M.A.

  Thesis: "Trauma and The Interpretation of Tragedy"

• Erika Valdivieso, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Virgilian Imitatio in Colonial Latin America"

2019

• Elliston P. Bissell, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Primacy and Subsumption in Greco-Roman Epic Literature"

• Sam Caldis, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Brothers, Colleagues, and Power in Imperial Rome"

• Luther Karper, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Epigraphic Representations of Warfare and Polis Agency in the Late Hellenistic Era (168-31 BCE)"

• Mahmoud Samori, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "A Minor History of Peace"

• Michiel van Veldhuizen, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Divining Disaster: Signs of Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture"

2018

• Keith Fairbank, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "A Dividing Sea: The Adriatic World from the First to the Fourth Centuries BC"

• Darrel Janzen, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Outsider Within: Self-Seclusion by the Roman Elite from Tiberius to Hadrian"

• Meghan Lescault, M.A.

• Daria Resh, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Metaphrasis in Byzantine Hagiography: The Early History of The Genre"

• Jennifer Swalec, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Female Agency, Dress, and the Social Fabric of Ancient Greece"

2017

• Dominic Machado, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Communities and Collective Action in the Republican Army"

• Jennifer Lewton Yates, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Ancient Novels and the Tragic Tradition"

2016

• Bryan Brinkman, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Popular Collective Speech and the Communication of Ideology: Acclamation in the Roman Empire"

• Joseph Kurz, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Barcid Empire? An Economic, Social, and Political Study of Imperial Interactions between Carthaginians and Locals in Southern Iberia"

• Rachel Philbrick, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Disruptive Verse: Hyperbole and the Hyperbolic Persona in Ovid's Exile Poetry"

• Adrianne Troia, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Epitaph for Bion: Agonism and Fictional Biography as Literary Criticism in Late Bucolic"

2015

• Barbara Blythe, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Petronius' Satyrica: A Novel of Mystic Initiation"

• Scott DiGiulio, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Aulus Gellius, the Noctes Atticae, and the Literary Logic of Miscellany under the High Roman Empire"

• Karen (Kelly) Jones, M.A.

  Thesis: "Raised Voices: Seneca’s Ghost Scenes as Microcosms of the Tragedies"

• Byron MacDougall, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Gregory of Nazianzus and Christian Festival Rhetoric" 

• Anne (McEnroe) McDonald, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Plutarch and the Philosophical Dialogue" 

• Tara Mulder, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Fetal Actors, Female Bodies: Childbirth in the Roman Empire"

• Anne Rabe, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Innovation and Invective in Cicero's Violent Metaphors"

• Matthew Wellenbach, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Choruses for Dionysus: Studies in the History of Dithyramb and Tragedy"

2014

• Joseph McDonald, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Narrating Impiety in Ancient Greece"

• Mitchell Parks, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "City of Praise: The Politics of Encomium in Classical Athens"

2013

• Timothy Haase, Ph.D.

  Dissertation:"Watching the World Unravel: Juvenal's Satirical Mechanics" 

• Jeanmarie Stimson, M.A.

2012

• David Berger, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Plato's Lesser Hippias:  Translation and Commentary"

• Christopher Geggie, M.A.

• Leo Landrey, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Valerius Flaccus' Roman Epic"

• Robin McGill, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Aligning Myths and Experience: The Sanctification of Time in Early Christian Latin Hymns"

• Melissa Sassin, M.A.

2011

• Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Literary and Ideological Memory in the Octavia"

• Christopher Welser, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Demos and Dioikesis: Public Finance and Democratic Ideology in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens"

2010

• Alexander Alderman, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Serio-comic Elements in Xenophon's Socratic Writings"

• Peter Lech, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Gender, Social Status and Discourse in Roman Comedy"

• Asya Sigelman, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Xenia and the Unity of Time in Pindar’s Victory Odes"

• Mark Thatcher, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "A Variable Tapestry: Identity and Politics in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy"

• William Torterelli, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Lyric Wisdom: Alcaeus and the Tradition of Paraenetic Poetry"

• David Yates, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Remembering the Persian War Differently"

2009

• William Appleton, M.A.

• Sarah Dawson, M.A.

• Jeffrey Hunt, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Fiction and Mimesis in the Idylls of Theocritus"

• Keeley Schell, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Vergil's Self-Referential Simile: Thematic Construction Through Internal Allusion in the Aeneid"

• Cynthia Swanson, M.A.

2007

• Adam Bravo, M.A.

  Thesis: "An Examination of the Speeches of Julian in Ammianus Marcellinus"

• Kevin Patterson, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "A Christian Virgil: The Function of Virgilian References in the Writings of Aldhelm"

• Jennifer Thomas, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Staging Empire: The Manipulation of Place and Time in Lucan's Bellum Civile"

• Christopher Trinacty, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Character is Destiny: Senecan Tragedy and Ovid"

• Ed Wong, M.A.

2006

• Eva Cieloszyk, M.A.

  Thesis: "Tacitus' Narrative Techniques and the Role of the Eastern Digressions in the Neronian Hexad"

• Bret Mulligan, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Carmina Sola Loquor: The Poetics of Claudian's Carmina Minora"

2005

• Alon Navot, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Similes of the Real in Virgil's Aeneid"

• Sarah Nix, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Characterization of Caesar in Lucan's Bellum Civile"

2004

• Max Leo Goldman, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Problems of Voice in Petronius"

• Carol Jane King, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Alexander and Divination: Dreams, Omens, and Aristander of Telmessus in the Alexander Historians"

• Joseph Gerard Leichter, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Zij as-Sanjari of Gregory Chioniades: Text, Translation, and Greek-to-Arabic Glossary"

• Joshua Slocum, M.A.

• Sarah Smart, M.A.

  Thesis: "Things Fall Apart: Lucan's Allusions to Lucretius' Perished World"

• Heather L. Vincent

  Dissertation: "Ieiunum Odium: A Theory of Humor in Juvenal"

2003

• Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Speaking of Salvation: Gregory of Nazianzus as Poet and Priest in his Autobiographical Poems"         

• John Dayton, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Athletes of War: An Evaluation of the Agonistic Elements in Greek Warfare"

• Preston Edwards, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "On the Christian Alexandrianism of Gregory of Nazianzus"

• Michael Fontaine, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Sophisticated Paraprosdokian in Plautus"

2002

• Malcolm Hyman, obiit

  Dissertation: "Barbarism and Solecism in Ancient Grammatical Thought"

2001

• Antonios Augoustakis, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Facta virum sileo: Re-Constructing Female Action in Silius Italicus' Punica"

• Edward L. deBoo, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Puns on Plato's Name in The Republic"

2000

• Ruth Rothaus Caston, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Elegiac Passion: A Study of Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy"

• Heath Martin, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Spontaneous Generation and Aristotle's Hierarchy of Animal Life"

• Mark J. Sundahl, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Use of Statutes in the Seven Extant and graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai Speeches"

1999

• R. Anthony Kugler, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Representations of Self and Audience in the Phrygian And Cicilian Orations of Dio Chrysostom"

• Raymond Marks, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus"

• Matthew Munich, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Past Perfect: Images of the Past in Cicero, Lucretius and Catullus"

• Philip Thibodeau, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Wonders  of a World.  Essays on Vergil's Fourth Georgic"

1998

• Anthony Hollingsworth, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Recitation and the Stage: The Performance of Senecan Tragedy"

• Vassiliki Panoussi, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Epic Transfigured: Tragic Allusiveness in Vergil's Aeneid"

• Shilpa Raval, obiit

  Dissertation: "Pudibunda Ora: Gender, Sexuality and Language in Ovid's Metamorphoses"

• Nicholas Sterling, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Laconic Persuasion:  Rhetorical Arrangement of Events in Xenophon's Hellenika"

1997

• Gregory Bucher, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Prolegomena to a Commentary on Appian's Bellum Civile, Book 2"

• Carolin Hahnemann, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Incarnating Democracy: The Role of Theseus in the Tragedies of Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides"

• Ben J. Hennelly, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Transcendence and Implication:  The Two Visions of Virgil's Georgics"

• Joseph S. Houser, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Philosophy of Musonius Rufus:  A Study of Applied Ethics in the Late Stoa"

• Marc Mastrangelo, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Psychomachia of Prudentius:  A Reappraisal of the Greek Sources and Origins of Allegory"

1996

• Margaret Graver, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Therapeutic Reading and Seneca's Moral Epistles"

• Steven Rutledge, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Literary, Cultural, and Historical Background of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus"

1995

• Faith Sandstrom, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Silver Soteira Coinage of Cyzicus in the Fourth Century B.C."

• Catherine M. Torigian, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Poetic Allegory and Roman Reality in Three Carmina"

1994

• Geoffrey Bakewell, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Producing the Polis: Political and Legal Terminology in Aeschylus"

• James J. Kennelly, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "Thucydides' Knowledge of Herodotus"

• Jacob Rabinowitz, Ph.D.

  Dissertation: "The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity: Demonization of The Fertility Goddess"