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Job Placement

• Fernando Gorab Leme is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon
• Matteo Milesi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
• Sara Panteri had a one-year fellowship at Tulane University before she took up a position as Assistant Professor at Tulane University in Fall 2024.
• Malia Piper has been appointed Assistant Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
• Robert Santucci is an Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Fellowships and Other Recognition

• Antonello Mastronardi received a fellowship for 2023-24 from ANAMED, Research Center for Anatolian Civilization, at Koç University, Istanbul.

Conference Papers

• Nine of our students delivered papers at the CAMWS meeting in Provo, UT in 2023: Joseph Droegemueller, Christine Ellis, Kaitlin Karmen, Sarah Keith, William LaMarra, Antonello Mastronardi, Andrew Mayo, Katie Mikos, SN Yeager

Congratulations to our recent graduates:

2025

• Andrew Mayo - Method and Analogy in Hellenistic Medicine (Director: Francesca Schironi)
• Ryan Migliore - Horace, an Epicurean Sage: the Influence of Philodemus on Epistles I (Director: Ruth Caston)

2024

• Marshall Buchanan - Narratives of Decline in Roman and Chinese Historiography (Director: David Potter)
  
• Brittany Hardy - Women and the Nonhuman in Pindar's Epinician Odes (Director: Margaret Foster)
• Fernando Gorab Leme - Hymen Will Light Up Our Torches: The Significance and Transformation of the Wedding Song in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Directors: Ruth Caston and Ian Fielding)
• Matteo Milesi - Philology and Philosophy in Porphyry of Tyre: Reading, Interpretation and Authority at the Edge of Late Antiquity (Director: Francesca Schironi)
  
• Sara Panteri - Mind and World in the Iliadn and the Odyssey (Director: Jonathan Ready)

2023

• Alex Tarbet - Egyptian Folk Humor and Herodotus (Director: Sara Forsdyke)

2022

• Rob Santucci - Seneca and the History of Roman Eating (Director: Ruth Caston and Basil Dufallo) 
• Malia Piper - The Misunderstood Meretrix: Luxuria, Negotium, and Amicitia in Roman Comedy (Director: Ruth Caston)

• Justin Barney - Plato and Aristotle on the Efficacy of Religious Practice (Directors: Ruth Scodel and Richard Janko) 

Visiting Assistant Professorship at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo

• Anna Cornel - An Other View: Intersectional Identity in Classical Greece (Director: Sara Forsdyke)

Teacher of classical languages at Amadeus Lyceum in Vleuten, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Recent Awards

• Marshall Buchanan - TLL Fellowship in 2023; author of articles on revilesco, ridica, reverso, and retundo
  
• Alex Tarbet - Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, 2022-23
• Justin Barney - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
• David Morphew - ProQuest Dissertation Prize (2019): Passionate Platonism: Plutarch on the Positive Role of Non-Rational Affects in the Good Life
  

SCS 2023 Talks

• Amanda Kubic, "(Post) Modern Choreographies of Ovidian Metamorphosis in the Dances of Loie Fuller, Jody Sperling, and Kinetic Light"
• Fernando Gorab Leme, "'Theocritus' Helen gets herself married"
• Brittany Hardy, "The Tentacular Aesthetics of Pythian 12"
  
• Sara Panteri, "Platonic Philosophy in Hellenistic Alexandria: The Case of Eratosthenes of Cyrene"
  

Alumni in the News

• Dissertation Spotlight: Language and Difference in Herodotus - Edward Nolan, Society for Classical Studies blog