Graduate Students

Ancient performances via literary and epigraphical sources

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

literary form, metapoetics, psychoanalysis, critical theory

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

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

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; public outreach.

Latin poetry and its reception

Bioarchaeology; Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; identity and embodiment

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

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

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

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

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. Recently, Paleoclimatology and impact of climate on ancient societies.

Epigraphy, papyrology, and numismatics.

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

Latin literature, Greek and Roman drama, Apuleius and the Ancient Novel

Critical theory (psychoanalysis, Frankfurt School, deconstruction, queer theory)