Graduate Alumni by Year
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2020-2021
Ximing Lu, Ph.D. Classics
“The Ciceros in Athens: Study Abroad and Roman Politics”
Associate Professor Nandini Pandey
Mason Wheelock-Johnson, Ph.D. Classics
“Curating the Future in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales”
Associate Professor Alex Dressler
2019-2020
Elizabeth Currier, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
“The Personal Implications of Proverbs: Wealth and the Rich, Poverty and the Poor”
Professor Jeremy Hutton
Molly Harris, Ph.D. Classics
“Leaving War Behind: War, Return, and Survival in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Persians and Euripides’ Trojan Women”
Professor Jeffrey Beneker
Amy Hendricks, Ph.D. Classics
“Approaching Chorality: Literary Representations of the Chorus in Archaic Greek Poetry”
Professor Laura McClure
Mary Claire La Velle, Ph.D. Classics
“Rhetorical Characterization in Terence”
Associate Professor Alex Dressler
Rebecca Moorman, Ph.D. Classics
“Engrossing the Reader: Delight and Disgust in Latin Literature”
Associate Professor Alex Dressler
2018-2019
Preston Atwood, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
“The Role of LXX Isaiah in the Translation of the Peshiṭta of Isaiah”
Professor Jeremy Hutton
Mary Clare Dolinar, Ph.D. Classics
“Between Gods and Mortals: Divinity, Mortality, and Religious Ritual in Euripides”
Professor Laura McClure
Hikaru Kumon, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
“How Qohelet Thought: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Analysis of Ecclesiastes”
Professor Jeremy Hutton
2017-2018
Catherine Bonesho, Ph.D Hebrew Bible
“Foreign Holidays and Festivals as Representative of Identity in Rabbinic Literature”
Professor Jordan Rosenblum
Nathaniel E. Greene, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
“Warlord and Scribe: The Nascent Israelite State Beneath Its Textual Veneers”
Professor Jeremy Hutton
Rachel Hart, Ph.D Classics
“More than Meets the Eye: Autopsy and Physicality in Herodotus and Ctesias”
Professor Jeffrey Beneker
Jonathon E. Wylie, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
“‘He Shall Deliver My People from the Hand of the Philistines’: The Political and Theological Uses of the Philistines in the Book of Samuel”
Professor Jeremy Hutton
2016-2017
Stephen Geiger, Ph.D Hebrew Bible
“The Conquered Conquers: The Art of Exile in Josephus”
Professor Jeffrey Beneker
Marie LaFond, Ph.D. Classics
“οὕτω τοι τόδε σῆμα πιφαύσκομαι: Significant Objects in the Odyssey”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Kevin Mattison, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
Adjunct Instructor, High Point University
“Amending the Covenant: How and Why the Authors of Deuteronomy Responded to Textual Sources”
Professor Jeremy Hutton
2015-2016
Amanda Gregory, Ph.D. Classics
“Crafting Images : Critical and Aesthetic Discourse in Post-Classical Greek Literature”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Adrienne Hagen, Ph.D. Classics
“Natural Hierarchy in Greco-Roman Thought”
Professor Jeffrey Beneker
Lance Hawley, Ph.D. Hebrew Bible
“The Use of Metaphor in the Joban Discourse”
Professor Ronald Troxel
2014-2015
William N. Bruce, Ph.D. Classics
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
“Industry, Community, and the Sacred: Life Outside the City Walls at Sardis”
Professor Nicholas Cahill
Kate C. Rogers, Ph.D. Classics
“Finding Time to Write: Literary Amicitia and the Economy of Time in Flavian Rome”
Professor Alexander Dressler
2013-2014
Christopher Jones, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Retrofitting Jerusalem: Conceptions of Space, Identity, and Power in Ezra-Nehemiah”
Jason Micheli, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“The Translation Technique Evident in Peshitta Zechariah”
2012-2013
Lisa M. Feldkamp, Ph.D. Classics
“Let Sleeping Eros Lie: Erotobucolic Poetry in Hebrew, Greek, and Roman Literature”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Emmylou Grosser, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“The Poetic Line as Part and Whole: A Perception-Oriented Approach to Lineation of Poems in the Hebrew Bible”
Kerry A. Lefebvre, Ph.D. Classics
Latin Instructor, Mount Notre Dame High School, Cincinnati OH
“With You in That Dress: Cultus and Elegy in Rome”
Professor Laura McClure
Colleen M. Rice, Ph.D. Classics
Latin teacher, Baldwinsville Central High School, Baldwinsville NY
“Carried away by Bacchus: The Power and Politics of Bacchic Inspiration in the Augustan Poets”
Professor Alex Dressler
Josh Smith, Ph.D. Classics
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
“Greek and Roman Scholarly Traditions: Ancient Interpretations of Euripides, Aeschines, Terence, and Vergil”
Professor Jim McKeown
Matthew P. Vieron, Ph.D. Classics
Mental Health Therapist
“Poetic Voice and Readership in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura”
Profs. Alex Dressler and Patricia Rosenmeyer
2011-2012
Kevin Chau, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“A Poetics for Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew Poetry”
Alexander E.W. Hall, Ph.D. Classics
Lecturer, Iowa State University
“To the Beguiling Dance of the Gods: Genre and the Short Homeric Hymns”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Joy E. Reeber, Ph.D. Classics
Adjunct Instructor, University of Arkansas
“Married to a Persona: ‘Biography’ in Ovid’s Exile Poetry”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Eric Tully, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“The Translation and the Translator of the Peshitta of Hosea”
2010-2011
Eric A. Cox, Ph.D. Classics
“Cultural Deception and Narrative Technique in Herodotus’ Histories”
Profs. Patricia Rosenmeyer and Jeffrey Beneker
Elizabeth A. Brinnehl, Ph.D. Classics
Latin Teacher
“Medusa’s Blood: Lucan, Libya and the Geography of Anger”
Professor Carole Newlands
Kristen A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, John Carroll University
“Drinking Alfresco: The Erotics of the Pastoral-Sympotic Mode”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Kris Lorenzo, Ph.D. Classics
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hollins University
“Ancient Greek and Roman Navel Victory Monuments”
Professor William Aylward
Charles Yu, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“To Comfort Job: The Speeches in the Book of Job as Rhetorical Discourse”
2009-2010
Timothy Mackie, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Expanding Ezekiel: The Hermeneutics of Scribal Addition in the Ancient Text Witnesses of the Book of Ezekiel”
Kim Nguyen, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Lady Zion and the Man: The Use of Personae in the Book of Lamentations”
2008-2009
Richard Benton, Jr. Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Aspect and the Biblical Hebrew Niphal and Hitpael”
Tate Hemingson, Ph.D. Classics
Litigator, Clark Hill
“Faunus in Horace’s Odes”
Professor Carole Newlands
2007-2008
Matthew F. Amati, Ph.D. Classics
Assessment Technical Writer
WIDA at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research
“Transforming the Polis: Interpretations of Space in Attic Old Comedy”
Professor Laura McClure
Brian V. Lush, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, Macalester College
“Recognition and the Limits to Knowledge in Euripides”
Professor Laura McClure
Kent Reynolds, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Psalm 119: Promoting Torah, Portraying an Ideal Student of Torah”
2006-2007
Mike D. Nerdahl, Ph.D. Classics
Senior Lecturer, Bowdoin College
“Homeric Models in Plutarch’s Lives”
Professor Silvia Montiglio
Vasiliki Kostopolou, Ph.D. Classics
Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University
“Polyphemus and Galatea: Variations on a Theme”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
2005-2006
Michael Lyons, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“From Law to Prophecy: Ezekiel’s Use of the Holiness Code”
Sun Myung Lyu, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Righteousness in the Book of Proverbs”
Stephen S. McRoberts, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, Patrick Henry College
“Lucan’s war on Caesar”
Professor Carole Newlands
William Tooman, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“‘I Spoke in Former Days…’: Inner-Biblical Allusion in the Gog Oracles”
2003-2004
Bryce A. Carpenter, Ph.D. Classics
US Dept of Veterans Affairs
“Personal and Political Humor in Propertius”
Professor Jim McKeown
Michael Heiser, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Non-Canonical Second Temple Jewish Literature”
David C Hillman, Ph.D. Classics
Independent Writer
“Representations of Pharmacy in Roman Literature from Cato to Ovid”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Daniel Kroeze, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“A Semantic Study of the Lexical Field of ‘Fear’ Terms in Biblical Hebrew”
Rachel M. McMullin, Ph.D. Classics
Librarian, West Chester University
“The Deinomenids: Tyranny and Patronage at Syracuse”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Mary R. McHugh, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
“Manipulating Memory: Remembering and Defaming Julio-Claudian Women”
Professor Carole Newlands
Alexandra Pappas, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, San Francisco State Univ.
“Greek Writing in its Aesthetic Context: Archaic and Hellenistic Arts and Letters”
Professor Barry Powell
2001-2002
John A. Cook, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System: A Grammaticalization Approach”
Laura A. De Lozier, Ph.D. Classics
Senior Lecturer, Univ. of Wyoming
“An investigation of ancient testimonia about visual representations of Mark Antony”
Professor Jim McKeown
Robert Holmstedt, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“The Relative Clause in Biblical Hebrew: A Linguistic Analysis”
Angela L. Pitts, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, Mary Washington College
“Prostitute, muse, lover: The biographical tradition of Sappho in Greek and Roman literature”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Matthew S. Semanoff, Ph.D. Classics
Associate Professor, University of Montana
“Pedagogical poetry: Teachers and students in didactic verse”
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Holly M. Sypniewski, Ph.D. Classics
Professor, Millsaps College
“Becoming Vergil: Poetic persona and generic play in the Ps.-Vergilian Culex”
Profs. Patricia Rosenmeyer and Jim McKeown
2000-2001
Brian Ashland, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
Instructor, Madison College
“An Examination of the Rules for Babylonian Poetic Accentuation”
Changhak Hyun, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“A Study of the Translation Technique of Peshitta Proverbs”
Daryl Jefferies, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies
“Wisdom at Qumran: A Form-Critical Analysis of the Admonitions in 4QInstruction”