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RECENT NEWS
Congratulations to our recent graduates:
2020
Daniel Walden
To Sing the Deeds of Men: Epithet and Identity in Homeric Epic (Director: Benjamin Fortson)
Elizabeth Nabney
Labour and Family Separation in Roman Egypt (Director: Arthur Verhoogt)
Edward Nolan
Language and Difference in Herodotus (Director: Sara Forsdyke)
Katherine Beydler
Assistant Director- Office of Learning, Teaching and Technology, University of Iowa
Environmental History and Historiography of Rome: Archaic Period to Empire. (Co-Directors: Laura Motta and David Potter)
2019
Tyler Mayo
Operations Lead, DeepBench
Research and Experiment in Early Greek Thought (Director: Francesca Schironi)
David Morphew
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan
Passionate Platonism: Plutarch on the Positive Role of Non-Rational Affects in the Good Life (Director: Victor Caston)
2018
Drew Stimson
Core Speech Analytics Engineer, M*Modal
Characterization and Politics in Thucydides (Director: Sara Forsdyke)
Mara Kutter
Emotion in Politics: Envy, Jealousy, and Sovereignty in Archaic and Classical Greece (Director: Sara Forsdyke)
Louise Loehndorff
Technical Writer, Mobile Industrial Robots A/S
Translation as Narrative and Translator as Active Guide: Rufinus' Process of Translating Origen's Narrative of the Soul's Descent (Director: Sara Ahbel-Rappe)
Recent Awards
ProQuest Dissertation Prize (2019):
David Morphew: Passionate Platonism: Plutarch on the Positive Role of Non-Rational Affects in the Good Life
Students papers at CAMWS 2020
Marshall Buchanan, “Cato and Sallust: The Narrative of Corruption and the Narrative of Decline”
Sarah Keith, “Realism and Reality: The Elegiac Epistolography of Sulpicia”
Katelin Mikos, “Rewriting the Gods: Theogonic Elements in the Orphic Hymns”
Matteo Milesi, “Exegesis and Intellectual Authority:The Strange Case of Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics”
