Placement and Dissertations

Francesca Beretta
Placement: Plumer Junior Research Fellow in Classics, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Dissertation: The Motionscape of Greek Tragedy: Greek Drama through the Prism of Movement

Anna Grant
Placement: Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program
Dissertation: Echoes of Authority: Quotation and the Performance of Wisdom in Cicero, Horace, and Seneca

Erynn Kim
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: Epic Liminal Spaces: Dreams, Similes, and the Poetics of Vividness in Gilgamesh and Homer 

Ben Koons
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
Dissertation: Aristotle’s Privations

Ray Lahiri
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
Dissertation: The Violence of the Form: Violence and the Political in Greek and Latin Historical Narrative

Sadie McCloud
Placement: Indiana University Bloomington
Dissertation: Vice in Aristotle

Christopher Londa
Placement: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Universität Marburg
Dissertation: Paraliterary labor and the Social Conditions of Roman Authorship from Cicero to Pliny

Joseph Morgan
Placement: Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
Dissertation: The Snares of Thoth: A Social History of Provincial Administration in Ptolemaic Egypt

C.J. Rice
Placement: VAP, Vassar College
Dissertation: Religio Licita: Empire, Religion, and Civic Subjects, 250‐450 CE

Treasa Bell
Placement: Private Tutor, London
Dissertation: “Hideous progeny”: the role of monsters and hybrids in Latin metapoetry

Lea Aurelia Schroeder
Placement: Lea Aurelia Schroeder, Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley
Dissertation: Perception and perceptual judgment in Plato’s Theaetetus and Timaeus

Daniel Ferguson
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University
Dissertation: Eudaimonia in the Eudemian Ethics

Niek Janssen
Placement: VAP, Amherst College
Dissertation: Appropriate Transgressions: Parody and Decorum in Ancient Greece and Rome

Lester Stephens
Placement: Archivist and Historian, Maxwell Air Force Base
Dissertation: Res Novae and Radial Governmentality (112-72 BCE)

Liam Ahern
Placement: Strategy and Development Manager at CRH, Sydney, Australia
Dissertation: Reading Theognis: Textual Criticism and Reception

Kyle Conrau-Lewis
Placement: Taft School, Watertown, CT
Dissertation: Reading Ancient History in Miscellaneous Books: From Valerius Maximus to Aelian

Reier Helle
Placement: Assistant Professor, Harvard University 
Dissertation: Corporeal Unity in Stoic Philosophy

Meghan Freeman
Placement: Product manager at Quantum Workplace, Omaha, NE
Dissertation: Kings in the City: the Regal Memoryscape of Early to Mid-Republican Rome

Rachel Lilley Love
Placement: Associate Professor, Harvard University
Dissertation: Writing After Livy: Historical Epitome in the Livian Tradition

Cynthia “Cara” Polsley
Placement: Co-founder and co-director of Cordical and founder of the Stardrive Foundation; Department of Classics, KU
Dissertation: Contrafactual Structures in Ancient Greek Narrative

Noreen Sit Kupernik
Placement: Thaden School, Bentonville, AR
Dissertation: Eliteness on Parade: Roman Escorted Movement as Performance of Status

Jennifer Weintritt
Placement: Assistant Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Troy Story: the Greek Epic Cycle in Latin Epic

Sarah Derbew
Placement: Assistant Professor, Stanford
Dissertation: The Metatheater of Blackness: Looking at and through Black Skin Color in Ancient Greek Literature and Art

Emily Kress
Placement: Assistant Professor, Brown University
Dissertation: Aristotle on Chance, Causation, and Teleology

Kyle Khellaf
Placement: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Riverside
Dissertation: The Paratextual Past: Digression in Classical Historiography

Allison Piñeros Glasscock
Placement: Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Dissertation: Learning Virtue: The Value of Knowledge and Philosophical Inquiry in Four Platonic Dialogues

Alex (Tongjia) Zhang
Placement: Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Law
Dissertation: Classical Natural Law Theories from Attic Oratory to Aristotle

Emily Hauser
Placement: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), University of Exeter (UK)
Dissertation: Since Sappho: Women in Classical Literature and Contemporary Women’s Writing

Yukai Li
Placement: Associate Professor, Carleton University
Dissertation: Being Late and Being Mistaken in the Homeric Tradition

Geoffrey Moseley
Placement: Founder, Per Portas
Dissertation: Plato Arabus: On the Arabic transmission of Plato’s Dialogues. Texts and studies

Sean Northrup
Placement: Gilman School, Baltimore
Dissertation: Aristocracy of Eloquence: Language and Identity in Roman Gaul, 289-389 CE

Claudia Rammelt Portogallo
Placement: Director of Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna
Dissertation: A Greek in the city: Thucydides between Leonardo Bruni and Niccola Macchiavelli

Benjamin Jerue
Placement: Assistant Professor, Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza)
Dissertation: A Credible Way to Do Things Just Like in Comedy: Popular Culture in Roman Rhetoric and Oratory

Bryant Kirkland
Placement: Associate Professor, UCLA
Dissertation: The Lens of Herodotus: Criticism, Imitation, and Reception in Imperial Greek Literature

Evan Rodriguez
Placement: Associate Professor, Idaho State University
Dissertation: Exploring Both Sides: Plato’s New Method for First Principles

Michael Zimm
Placement: Director of Marketing at Kris-Tech Wire
Dissertation: Constraints on Speech in Democratic Athens