Graduate Students
Ancient legal history; migration, citizenship and identity; cosmopolitanism; political philosophy; Plato, Xenophon and Cyrenaics.
literary form, metapoetics, psychoanalysis, critical theory
Sophie Cushman (she/her)
PhD Candidate
classical archaeology; Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; pottery and material culture; identity and ethnicity; state formation and social structure; administration, writing and literacy; cultural heritage
Susanna Faas- Bush
she/her
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
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.
Bioarchaeology; Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; identity and embodiment
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.