Yale Classics has trained many leaders in the profession of Classics and related fields. We are excited by our track record of placing newly minted PhD’s in jobs both inside and outside higher education, both in the US and abroad. We welcome news of job changes and new explorations.
2025
Christopher Atkins
Elizabeth Ridgeway Lavender
2024
Francesca Beretta, Plumer Junior Research Fellow in Classics, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
The Motionscape of Greek Tragedy: Greek Drama through the Prism of Movement
Anna Grant, Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program
Echoes of Authority: Quotation and the Performance of Wisdom in Cicero, Horace, and Seneca
Erynn Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Epic Liminal Spaces: Dreams, Similes, and the Poetics of Vividness in Gilgamesh and Homer
Ben Koons, Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
Aristotle’s Privations
Ray Lahiri, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
The Violence of the Form: Violence and the Political in Greek and Latin Historical Narrative
2023
Christopher Londa, Loeb Classical Library Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
Paraliterary labor and the Social Conditions of Roman Authorship from Cicero to Pliny
Joseph Morgan, Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
The Snares of Thoth: A Social History of Provincial Administration in Ptolemaic Egypt
C.J. Rice, VAP, Vassar College
Religio Licita: Empire, Religion, and Civic Subjects, 250‐450 CE
2022
Treasa Bell, private tutor, London
“Hideous progeny”: the role of monsters and hybrids in Latin metapoetry
Lea Aurelia Schroeder, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Perception and perceptual judgment in Plato’s Theaetetus and Timaeus
2021
Daniel Ferguson, Newton International Fellow, King’s College London; from October 2025, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University
Eudaimonia in the Eudemian Ethics
Niek Janssen, VAP, Amherst College
Appropriate Transgressions: Parody and Decorum in Ancient Greece and Rome
Lester Stephens, Archivist and Historian, Maxwell Air Force Base
Res Novae and Radial Governmentality (112-72 BCE)
2020
Liam Ahern, Strategy and Development Manager at Australia
Reading Theognis: Textual Criticism and Reception
Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Taft School, Watertown, CT
Reading Ancient History in Miscellaneous Books: From Valerius Maximus to Aelian
Reier Helle, Assistant Professor, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Corporeal Unity in Stoic Philosophy
2019
Meghan Freeman,
Kings in the City: the Regal Memoryscape of Early to Mid-Republican Rome
Rachel Lilley Love, Associate Professor, Harvard University
Writing After Livy: Historical Epitome in the Livian Tradition
Cynthia “Cara” Polsley, co-founder and co-director of Cordical and founder of the Stardrive Foundation
Contrafactual Structures in Ancient Greek Narrative
Noreen Sit Kupernik, Thaden School, Bentonville, AR
Eliteness on Parade: Roman Escorted Movement as Performance of Status
Jennifer Weintritt, Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
Troy Story: the Greek Epic Cycle in Latin Epic
2018
Sarah Derbew, Assistant Professor, Stanford
The Metatheater of Blackness: Looking at and through black skin color in ancient Greek literature and art
Emily Kress, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Aristotle on chance, causation, and teleology
Kyle Khellaf, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Riverside
The paratextual past: Digression in classical historiography
Allison Piñeros Glasscock, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Learning Virtue: The Value of Knowledge and Philosophical Inquiry in Four Platonic Dialogues
Alex (Tongjia) Zhang, Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Law
Classical Natural Law Theories from Attic Oratory to Aristotle
2017
Emily Hauser, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), University of Exeter (UK)
Since Sappho: Women in Classical Literature and Contemporary Women’s Writing
Yukai Li, Associate Professor, Carleton University
Being Late and Being Mistaken in the Homeric Tradition
Geoffrey Moseley, Founder, Per Portas
Plato Arabus: On the Arabic transmission of Plato’s Dialogues. Texts and studies
Sean Northrup, teaching Latin at the Gilman School, Baltimore
Aristocracy of Eloquence: Language and Identity in Roman Gaul, 289-389 CE
Claudia Rammelt Portogallo, Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra, Meissen, Saxony
A Greek in the city: Thucydides between Leonardo Bruni and Niccola Macchiavelli
2016
Benjamin Jerue, Assistant Professor, Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza)
A Credible Way to Do Things Just Like in Comedy: Popular Culture in Roman Rhetoric and Oratory
Bryant Kirkland, Associate Professor, UCLA
The Lens of Herodotus: Criticism, Imitation, and Reception in Imperial Greek Literature
Evan Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Idaho State University
Exploring Both Sides: Plato’s New Method for First Principles
Michael Zimm, Director of Marketing at Kris-Tech Wire
Constraints on Speech in Democratic Athens
2015
Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Assistant Professor, Providence College
The Language of Uncertainty: Genre, Tradition and Literary Imagines in the Argonautica
Joshua Fincher, Assistant Professor, Hillsdale College
Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Redefinition of Epic Poetry and the Heroic Code
2014
Thomas Biggs, Associate Professor, University of Saint Andrews
A Roman Odyssey: Cultural Responses to the First Punic War from Andronicus to Augustus
Christopher M. Simon, Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Chicago
Ancient Etymology and the Early History of Rome
2013
Thomas Beasley, Database Administrator, Humanities Washington
Thucydides’ Oblique Self-Definitions
Leanna Boychenko, Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago
Callimachus’ Book of Hymns: Poet, Narrator, Voice
Sean Harrigan, independent scholar, Chicago
Pindar’s Epinikia from Ritual to Reperformance
Jelle Stoop, Consultant at Bain & Company, Brussels
Portraits and Pretense: Honorific Habits in Hellenistic Communities
2012
Martin Devecka, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Athens, Rome, Tenochtitlan: A Historical Sociology of Ruins
Jonathan Gnoza, St. Paul Catholic High School, Bristol CT
Isocrates in Italy
Jessica McCutcheon, project manager at World Translation A/S, Aarhus, Denmark
Fear as Instability in Latin Epic Narrative
Nicholas Salazar, Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT
Against Aphobus I & II: A Commentary
2011
William Brockliss, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Flower in Homeric Poetry
Graziela Byros, Lecturer in Classics, Northwestern University
Reconstructing Identities in Roman Dacia: Evidence from Religion
Noah Dion, Director/Academic Affairs Support, Academic Affairs, Worcester State University
Genesis by the Book: Augustinian Literalism in the Latin Epic Hexaemeron and Milton’s Paradise Lost
John Oksanish, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University
Building the Principate: A Literary Study of Vitruvius’ de Architectura
Anke Rondholz Tietz, Research fellow, Gerda Henkel Stiftung
The Versatile Needle: Hosidius Geta’s Cento Medea and its Tradition
Caroline Stark, Associate Professor, Howard University
The Role of Knowledge in Ancient and Renaissance Conceptions of Man
2010
Tommaso Gazzarri, Professor, Union College
Res sine Nomine. A Study of Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales
Ornella Rossi, teaching at Liceo Classico in Siena; Assistant Editor, I Tatti Renaissance Library
Letters from far away: Ancient epistolary travel writing and the case of Cicero’s correspondence
Tristan Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Ideology and Usurpation in the Fourth Century 337-425 C.E.
2009
Katherine Wasdin, Associate Professor, University of Maryland College Park
The Reluctant Bride: Greek and Roman Wedding Poems
John Jacobs, Montclair Kimberley Academy, Montclair, NJ
Anne iterum capta repetentur Pergama Roma? The fall of Rome in the Punica
Ayelet Haimson-Lushkov, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin
The Culture of Authority: Narrative and the Roman Political Imagination
2008
Pramit Chaudhuri, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Theomachy: Ethical Criticism and the Struggle for Authority in Epic and Tragedy
John Dillon, Lecturer in Latin, Yale, and professional academic translator/editor
The Legislation of Constantine the Great: Justice, Administration, and Reform