Alumni
Alumni/ae
The Ancient Greek & Roman Studies B.A. opens all kinds of doors for our undergraduate majors. Recent alums (2009-) include a preschool teacher, a civil engineer, a manager at Gilt, an investment associate at a hedge fund, a high school librarian, a Ph.D. candidate in Ancient History, a senior research analyst at the Nielson Company, a Masters student of Public Health (currently interning at the Center for Disease Control), a curatorial assistant at a major collection, and a manager of administration for an NHL team.
Alumni/ae of the Classics graduate programs at UC Berkeley have many options after receiving their Ph.D.s. The following list is not comprehensive. If you have corrections or additions, please let the department know.
Recent PhDs
Christopher Jelen (2023)
Joshua Benjamins (2022) — Visiting Assistant Professor, Hillsdale College
Aaron Brown (2022) — Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College
David Crane — Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (2014) — Assistant Professor, Brown University
Seth Estrin — Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Lynn Gallogly (2019)
Marissa Henry (2022) — Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Jared Hudson — Associate Professor, Harvard University
Christopher Jelen (2023)
Dylan Kenny (2023) — Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
Morgan King (2019) — Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College
Athena Kirk — Associate Professor, Cornell University
Erin Lam (2022) — Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara
Rachel Lesser (2015) — Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
Virginia Lewis (2014) — Associate Professor, Florida State University
Mark McClay (2018) — Assistant Professor, Hillsdale College
Kevin Moch (2019) — Web Infrastructure Engineer at Quizlet
Sarah Olsen (2016) — Associate Professor, Williams College
Esther Ramer (2021) — Accommodations Coordinator, Cal Housing Assignments, UC Berkeley
Dan Squire (2022)
Joel Street (2015) — Latin Teacher, Department of World Languages, Bentley School
Kelsey Turbeville (2019) — User Experience Writer at UserTesting
Christopher Waldo (2019) — Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Andrew Wein (2022) — Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Naomi Weiss (2014) — Professor, Harvard University
Elizabeth Wueste (2016) — Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics, American University of Rome
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (2016) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
Other Notable Alumni
Sara Abdel-Rappe – Prof., U. of Michigan
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes – Prof., Ohio State University
James Andrews – Assoc. Prof., Ohio University
Nathan Arrington — Assoc. Prof., Princeton University
James Astorga – Marlborough School, Los Angeles
Hayden Ausland – Prof., U. Montana
Yelena Baraz — Prof., Princeton University
Shadi Bartsch – Prof., U. of Chicago
William Batstone – Prof., Ohio State U.
Elizabeth Baughan — Associate Professor, University of Richmond, Virginia
Stephen Beall – Assoc. Prof., Marquette U.
Ruby Blondell – Prof., U. Washington
Joan Burton – Director of the Federal Semester Program and the Director of the Individual Studies Program, U. Maryland
David Chamberlain – Instructor, U. of Oregon
Thomas Chance – Lecturer, UC Davis
Rali Christo – Lecturer, St. Mary's College (Moraga)
James Clauss – Prof., U. Washington
Randall Colaizzi – Lecturer, MIT and U Mass Boston
Erwin Cook – Prof., Trinity Univ. San Antonio
Anthony Corbeill – Prof., U. of Virginia
Joshua Davies — Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Edan Dekel – Chair and Professor of Classics, Chair of Jewish Studies, Williams College
Carolyn Dewald – Prof., Bard College
Elizabeth Ditmars – Recently retired, The Bentley School, Berkeley
Curtis Dozier (2008) — Assistant Professor, Vassar College
Stephen Epstein – Assoc. Prof., Director of the Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University, New Zealand
Andrew Feldherr – Prof., Princeton University
Margaret Foster — Assoc. Prof., University of Michigan
Helena Fracchia – Prof., U. of Alberta
Catherine R. Fries – Professor emerita, Millsaps College
Catherine Gilhuly – Prof., Wellesley College
Maud Gleason – Lecturer, Stanford U.
Barbara Goff – Prof., U. of Reading
David Goldstein (2010) — Professor of Linguistics, UCLA
Erik Gunderson – Prof., U. of Toronto
Robert Gurval – Prof. of Classics, UCLA
Karalee Strieby Harding – Designer, Ravelry
David Jacobson (2004) — Latin Teacher, Convent & Stuart Hall, Schools of the Sacred Heart
Mary Jaeger – Prof., U. of Oregon
Nicholas F. Jones – Prof., U. Pittsburgh
Deborah Kamen – Assoc. Prof., University of Washington
Andrew A. Kelly – Fellow, University of Melbourne
James Ker – Assoc. Prof., U. of Pennsylvania
Darcy Krasne (2011) — Lecturer, Columbia University
Kurt Lampe – Lecturer, University of Bristol (UK)
Mark Landon – Vis. Asst. Prof., Mount Holyoke College
Kenneth S. Lapatin – Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
Kathryn Morgan – Prof., UCLA
Floyd L. Moreland - Professor emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center
Melissa Mueller – Prof., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Trevor Murphy – Assoc. Prof., UC Berkeley
Andrea Nightingale – Prof., Stanford
Nandini Pandey (2011) — Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Jed Parsons – Engineer (International Team), Square
Miriam Pelikan – Assoc. Prof., Hanover College
Matthew Pincus – Attorney, Debevoise & Plimpton
Chris Ratté – Prof., U. of Michigan
Jonathan Ready – Prof., U. of Michigan
Lauri Reitzammer (2006) — Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Gretchen Reydams-Schils – Prof., Notre Dame University
Andrew Riggsby – Prof., U. of Texas at Austin
Bradley Ritter — Associate Professor of Classics and History, Ave Maria University, Florida
Walter Roberts (2006) — Founder and Director, Detroit Greek and Latin Educational Foundation
Barbara Saylor Rodgers – Prof., U of Vermont
Felipe Rojas Silva (2010) — Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University
Matthew Roller – Prof., Johns Hopkins University
John Rundin – Lecturer, UC Davis
Sonia Sabnis – Assoc. Prof., Reed College
Dylan Sailor – Prof., UC Berkeley
David Schenker – Assoc. Prof., U. of Missouri
Enrica Sciarrino – Senior Lecturer, U. of Canterbury, New Zealand
Will Shearin (2007) — Associate Professor, University of Miami
William Short (2007) — Lecturer, University of Exeter
Allan Silverman – Prof., Ohio State U.
Christopher Simon – Director, HR Compliance, Office of the President, University of California
Neel Smith – Assoc. Prof., Holy Cross
Deborah Steiner – Prof., Columbia U.
Sarah Stroup – Prof., U. of Washington
Elizabeth Sutherland – Assoc. Prof., U. of Tennessee
Yasmin Syed – Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Antonia Syson — Associate Professor, Purdue University; died 2018
Håkan Tell – Assoc. Prof., Dartmouth College
Garth Tissol – Prof., Emory
Han Tran — Lecturer, University of Miami
Gretchen Umholtz – Lecturer, UMass Boston
Pamela Vaughn – Prof. Emerita, SFSU
Stephen White – Prof., UT Austin
Malcolm Wilson – Assoc. Prof., U. of Oregon
Victoria Wohl – Prof., U. of Toronto
Kenneth Wolfe – Assoc. Prof., St. John's College (New Mexico)
Costas Yialoucas – Cyprus Ministry of Education