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RECENT NEWS
Congratulations to our recent graduates:
2022
Justin Barney
Plato and Aristotle on the Efficacy of Religious Practice (Directors: Ruth Scodel and Richard Janko)
Anna Cornel
An Other View: Intersectional Identity in Classical Greece (Director: Sara Forsdyke)
2021
James Faulkner
Foreign Professionals and Roman Cultural Revolutions (149-91 BCE) (Directors: Basil Dufallo and David Potter)
Megan Wilson
From Royal Dionysism to Political Theatrics: A Social History of the Pergamene Theater (Director: Ruth Scodel)
2020
Daniel Walden
To Sing the Deeds of Men: Epithet and Identity in Homeric Epic (Director: Benjamin Fortson)
Elizabeth Nabney
Teacher of Classics at St. Helen and St. Katharine School, Abingdon, UK
Labour and Family Separation in Roman Egypt (Director: Arthur Verhoogt)
Edward Nolan
Visiting Lecturer at University of Maryland, Baltimore
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)
Recent Awards
- Justin Barney - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
- Drew Cabaniss - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
- Nadhira Hill - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
- William Soergel - Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Graduate Student Research Fellowship for 2021-22
- David Morphew - ProQuest Dissertation Prize (2019): Passionate Platonism: Plutarch on the Positive Role of Non-Rational Affects in the Good Life
SCS 2022 Talks
Marshall Buchanan, "A New Type of Civil War in Tacitus"
Andrew Mayo, "The Problem of Antiochus in Cicero's 'Academia'"
Matteo Milesi, Peripatetic and Platonic Poetics in Porphyry's "Cave of the Nymphs"
Rob Santucci, Hungry Eyes: Seneca’s Hostius Quadra as Eater
Alumni in the News
- Dissertation Spotlight: Language and Difference in Herodotus - Edward Nolan, Society for Classical Studies blog
- Office Hours with … Erika Valdivieso - Yale News
