Kevin is a PhD student on the Classical Philology track. He is currently 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 philological reading 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 religion in the ancient Near East, transitional periods in antiquity, the later Roman Empire in general into the medieval period, 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 and named Outstanding Graduating Senior in Classics; studied at MIT/Harvard 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 his bridge fellowship program and thesis re-examining the papyri of C. Gemellus Horigenes, a landowner and blind man from Roman Egypt at the turn of the third century AD.
Please contact him about any and all subjects at kevin.treadway@yale.edu.