Graduate Students

gbarba@berkeley.edu

Ancient performances via literary and epigraphical sources


juanbautista_bardi@berkeley.edu

Ancient legal history; migration, citizenship and identity; cosmopolitanism; political philosophy; Plato, Xenophon and Cyrenaics.


tommaso_bernardini@berkeley.edu
7226 Dwinelle Hall
Th 2-3

literary form, metapoetics, psychoanalysis, critical theory


y.brambila@berkeley.edu
7224 Dwinelle Hall
Th, 10-12 [in person or via Zoom]

max_buettner@berkeley.edu

lucychae@berkeley.edu

travel narratives; imperial historiography; narratology; epigraphic verse; ancient urbanism; historical cartography (Renaissance, Age of Exploration, East Asian manuscript/woodblock print)


Sophie Cushman (she/her)

PhD Candidate
scushman@berkeley.edu

classical archaeology; Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; pottery and material culture; identity and ethnicity; state formation and social structure; administration, writing and literacy; cultural heritage


deihr@berkeley.edu

Greek language and literature, especially archaic poetry and Herodotus; phenomenology and ritualization; psychoanalysis.


heather_dn@berkeley.edu

sfb@berkeley.edu

Roman household archaeology; the production and use of crafts and textiles in the ancient world; 3D reconstruction and digital humanities projects. Dissertation is on the domestic assemblage from the Villa della Pisanella.


Maribelisa Gillespie (she/her)

Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology 2024
belisi@berkeley.edu

Aegean prehistory; trade and communication in the ancient Mediterranean basin; technology and innovation in prehistory; prehistoric writing systems; Greek archaeology and religion; digital humanities; public outreach.


egharvey@berkeley.edu

katherine_hatfield@berkeley.edu

claire.healy@berkeley.edu
7307 Dwinelle Hall
Office Hours: Th. 11:10-12:30, and by appointment

madolynh@berkeley.edu
Dwinelle 7227
Monday, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, Thursday: 10:00 - 11:00 AM, or by appointment.

Bioarchaeology; Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; identity and embodiment


ark2@berkeley.edu

Cesca LaPasta

PhD Candidate
francesca.lapasta@berkeley.edu

Enslaved people and Identity; Interdisciplinary approaches utilizing material culture and literature; Labor; Social History; Domestic Archaeology; Security; Pompeii


nhlevine@berkeley.edu

Cecily Manson

she/her
cecmanson@berkeley.edu

smarcial@berkeley.edu

bekahmckay@berkeley.edu

Emily Mullin

PhD Candidate
emily.mullin@berkeley.edu

conventions of lyric poetry; Augustan literature; narratology; speech representation


lauren_nguyen@berkeley.edu
7222 Dwinelle Hall
Monday, 3-5 PM + by appointment

Greek and Roman tragedy; race, gender, and sexuality in drama and epic; ancient performance; choral bodies; materiality


joannaoh@berkeley.edu


jared_petroll@berkeley.edu

Aegean prehistory; environmental archaeology; ceramic analysis; linear B; GIS


riverramirez@berkeley.edu

Early Iron Age Greek Archaeology, Greek Colonization, Mobility, Trade, Pottery Studies, AutoCAD/GIS and Spatial Analysis


Ryan E. Reynolds

PhD Candidate in Classical Archaeology
hiro92@berkeley.edu
7223 Dwinelle (Fall 2024)
Tuesday and Friday 1-2

My focus is on Ptolemaic Egypt and, more specifically, the development of Red Sea trade in the Hellenistic period. This principally involves the study of Hellenistic economies, especially their financial systems and mechanisms of long-distance trade, through papyrology, epigraphy, and numismatics. I am also interested in the role of climate and climate change on the development of Red Sea trade and Hellenistic economies more broadly.


christian_rhoads@berkeley.edu

Literary Eco-Criticism; Hellenistic Poetry; Post-Humanist Philosophy; Critical University Studies; History of Classics; Lucian


jonas_sese@berkeley.edu

camryn_shiroma@berkeley.edu

David Youd

Ph.D. Candidate
david_youd@berkeley.edu
Dwinelle 7223
W 3-4p, F 4-5p

Greek and Roman drama, epic, and Apuleius; critical theory (psychoanalysis, Frankfurt school, queer theory)