Graduate Students

Later Roman Empire, historiography, Augustine, Christianity in the Roman Empire

Research Interests: Classical art and archaeology; Roman and Etruscan/Italic material culture; Pompeian studies; foodways and the archaeology of consumption; household archaeology; social boundary formation and transculturation; visual culture; urbanism.

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

Roman household archaeology; the production and use of crafts and textiles in the ancient world; 3D reconstruction and digital humanities projects.

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

Latin poetry and its reception

early Roman poetry, fragmentation and literary fragments, Greek and Roman New Comedy, reception, intertextuality, language pedagogy, online teaching methodology.

Greek literature and philosophy; history of classical scholarship

Augustan elegy; critical theory, especially queer and feminist theory

Interdisciplinary approaches utilizing material culture and literature; Enslaved people and Identity; Labor; Social History

conventions of lyric poetry; spatiality and temporality in Latin literature; untimeliness; the somatic experience of reading

I'm a PhD candidate interested in representations of animals in antiquity, especially in fables. I'm also enrolled in the Indigenous Language Revitalization Designated Emphasis. My dissertation looks at animal fables in Greek literature, using Ojibwe traditional stories (dibaajimowinan) and the work of Indigenous scholars to provide alternate perspectives to tricksters, myth, and human-animal relationships in the Greek fables.

Archaic Greek poetry; gender and sexuality; disability studies; self-alienation and dissociation

Ptolemaic Egypt and the Red Sea; Elephants and elephant culture in the ancient Mediterranean; Hellenistic economies, especially financial systems and long-distance trade; ancient slavery and labor history.

Epigraphy, papyrology, and numismatics.

Critical theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis; Latin literature, New Comedy, Apuleius and the Ancient Novel