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
Joshua Benjamins (2022) — Visiting Assistant Professor, Hillsdale College
Aaron Brown (2022) — Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College
David Crane — Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (2014) — Assistant Professor, Brown University
Daniel Esses - Attorney; Judicial Law Clerk, Supreme Court of California
Seth Estrin — Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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) — Associate 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
Earlier PhDs (a partial list)
Sara Abdel-Rappe – Prof., U. of Michigan
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes – Prof., Ohio State U.
James Andrews – Assoc. Prof., Ohio U.
Nathan Arrington — Assoc. Prof., Princeton U.
James Astorga – Marlborough School, Los Angeles
Hayden Ausland – Prof., U. Montana
Yelena Baraz — Prof., Princeton U.
Shadi Bartsch – Prof., U. of Chicago
William Batstone – Prof., Ohio State U.
Elizabeth Baughan — Associate Professor, U. 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. of Mass, Boston
Erwin Cook – Prof., Trinity U. San Antonio
Anthony Corbeill – Prof., U. of Virginia
Joshua Davies — Associate Professor, U. 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 Prof., Vassar College
Stephen Epstein – Assoc. Prof., Director of the Asian Studies Institute, Victoria U., New Zealand
Andrew Feldherr – Prof., Princeton U.
Margaret Foster — Assoc. Prof., U. of Michigan
Helena Fracchia – Prof., U. of Alberta
Catherine R. Fries – Prof. Emerita, Millsaps College
Catherine Gilhuly – Prof., Wellesley College
Maud Gleason – Lecturer, Stanford U.
Barbara Goff – Prof., U. of Reading
David Goldstein (2010) — Prof. 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. of Pittsburgh
Deborah Kamen – Assoc. Prof., U. of Washington
Andrew A. Kelly – Fellow, U. of Melbourne
James Ker – Assoc. Prof., U. of Pennsylvania
Darcy Krasne (2011) — Lecturer, Columbia U.
Kurt Lampe – Lecturer, U. of Bristol (UK)
Mark Landon – Vis. Asst. Prof., Mount Holyoke College
Kenneth S. Lapatin – Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
Floyd L. Moreland - Professor Emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center
Kathryn Morgan – Prof., UCLA
Melissa Mueller – Prof., U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Trevor Murphy – Assoc. Prof., UC Berkeley
Andrea Nightingale – Prof., Stanford U.
Nandini Pandey (2011) — Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins U.
Jed Parsons – Engineer (International Team), Square
Miriam Pelikan – Assoc. Prof., Hanover College
Matthew Pincus – Attorney, Debevoise & Plimpton
Jonathan Pratt
Chris Ratté – Prof., U. of Michigan
Jonathan Ready – Prof., U. of Michigan
Lauri Reitzammer (2006) — Associate Prof., U.of Colorado
Gretchen Reydams-Schils – Prof., Notre Dame U.
Andrew Riggsby – Prof., U. of Texas at Austin
Bradley Ritter — Associate Professor of Classics and History, Ave Maria U., 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 Prof. of Archaeology and the Ancient World and Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown U.
Matthew Roller – Prof., Johns Hopkins U.
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 Prof. U. of Miami
William Short (2007) — Lecturer, U. of Exeter
Allan Silverman – Prof., Ohio State U.
Christopher Simon – Director, HR Compliance, Office of the President, U. 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 Prof., Purdue U.
Håkan Tell – Assoc. Prof., Dartmouth College
Garth Tissol – Prof., Emory U.
Han Tran — Lecturer, U. of Miami
Gretchen Umholtz – Lecturer, UMass Boston
Pamela Vaughn – Prof. Emerita, SFSU
Tarik Wareh
Stephen White – Prof., U. of Texas at 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