Kevin is a first-year PhD student on the Classical Philology track. He is principally interested in the experiences of disability in antiquity and in approaching its study meditatively and through deep interdisciplinary work. He strives to answer what may largely be construed as questions of social history, through philologically guided close readings of surviving texts, such as from papyri, and with methodology from other fields, from anthropology and sociology to legal and disability studies. He is further interested in transitional periods in antiquity, religion in the ancient Near East, and the impact of ancient societies on, and their memory by, people and civilizations in later periods.
He earned his B.A. (ΦΒΚ) in History, Political Science, and Classics from Syracuse University in 2022, where he was also a McNair Scholar, studied at MIT in summer 2022 as an Alain Locke Fellow in Philosophy, completed a post-baccalaureate certificate in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania as the Rudolph Masciantonio Fellow for 2023–2024, and holds an M.A. in Classics from Cornell University, which he was awarded in 2025 after completing their bridge fellowship program, where, in his thesis, he re-examined the papyri of C. Gemellus Horigenes, a landowner and blind man in Roman Egypt at the turn of the third century AD.
Please contact him about any and all subjects at kevin.treadway@yale.edu.