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Department Alumni

2022

Anastasia Pantazopoulou, Visiting Assistant Professor at Carlton College, “Identity Performance on Euripidean and Contemporary North American ‘Stages.’ Spatial Dynamics in the Shaping and Interpretation of the Other.” (directed by Eleni Bozia)

Oswald Sobrino, Theology Teacher at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI, “Seneca and Paul Embrace Slavery Under Nero’s Regime: Politics as Context.” (directed by Velvet L. Yates)

Sara Sprunk, Latin Teacher at Central Dauphin School District, Harrisburg, PA, “Bird Discourse: Augury and Prophetic Birds in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita.” (directed by Velvet L. Yates)

Alberto De Simoni, Assistant Teaching Professor-Classics at North Carolina State University, “Power to Punish and Authority to Forgive: Imperial State and Imprisonment in 4th Century AD Antioch” (Directed by Andrew Nichols)

2021

April Spratley, Latin Teacher at Isle of Wight County Schools, Smithfield, VA, “A Symphony of Genres: Musical Instruments, Intertextuality and Genre in Ovid.” (directed by Konstantinos Kapparis)

2020

Maria Papaioannou, Adjunct Faculty, Howard University, “Epigram and Cult: A New Study of the Rock-Cut Precinct of Artemidorus at Thera.” (directed by Robert Wagman)

Kenneth Silverman, Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, “The Mind of Homer: A Study in Homeric Physiology and Thought.” (directed by Robert Wagman)

2019

Robert Conn, Latin Teacher at Thaden School, Bentonville, AR, “Vernae in the Roman Republic: From an Undesired Byproduct to an Intentionally Cultivated Slave.” (directed by Velvet Yates)

Jennifer Nelson, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian at UC Berkeley, “Gian Vittorio Rossi’s 1637 Eudemiae libri VIII: Translated with an Introduction and Notes.” (directed by Konstantinos Kapparis)

2018

Emilie Jordan, Latin Professor at St. Mary’s College, “All the Words, a Stage: Innovation, Self-Preservation, and the Centrality of Comedy in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (directed by Jennifer Rea)

Andrew Clark, Latin Teacher at Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, KS, “Solon the Poet, Solon the Lawgiver, Solon the Sage: the Intersecting Legends of Solon.” (directed by Robert Wagman)

2017

Keith Wessel, Professor at Martin Luther College, “Charity toward Widows in Early Christian Communities.” (directed by Konstantinos Kapparis)

Irina Greenman, Lecturer at University of Mary Washington, “Sex, Lies and Latin Love Poetry: The Ovidian Heroine and the Reclamation of Abandonment Narrative.” (directed by Jennifer Rea)​

2016

Sara Agnelli, Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement, Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, University of Florida, “Galen on Tremor, Rigor, Palpitation and Spasm: A Critical Edition.” (directed by Konstantinos Kapparis)

Miller Krause, Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Washington University, “Major Characters in Roman Declamation.” (directed by Konstantinos Kapparis)

Philip Cook, Latin Teacher at Cascia Hall, Tulsa, OK, “Abandoning the City: Meaning and Identity in Lucan’s Rome.” (directed by Jennifer Rea)

2015

William P. Smith, Latin Teacher at Lincoln High School, Tallahassee, FL, “Mors Honestissima: Cicero and Suicide Contemplation in the Late Republic” (directed by Jennifer Rea)

2014

David Hetrick, Adjunct Lecturer in Classics, University of Florida, “Coming Home to Drama: Alternative Paradigms of Nostos in Sophoklean Tragedy” (directed by Gonda Van Steen)

David Hoot, Lecturer, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “The Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus in Roman Times” (directed by Robert Wagman)

Generosa Sangco-Jackson, Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions at Manchester University, Fort Wayne, IN, “Horace’s Roman Odes: A Therapeutic Reading” (directed by Timothy S. Johnson)

Jeff Yeakel, Latin Teacher at the Bolles School, Jacksonville, FL, “Population Dynamics in Ancient Greek Civil Wars, Insurgencies and Revolts: A Systems Approach” (directed by Andrew Wolpert)

2013

Megan Daly, Librarian of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, “Tacitus’ Germanicus and the Commanders of Germania” (directed by Victoria Pagán)

Shawn Daniels, “Satire in the Historia Augusta” (directed by Victoria Pagan)

Thomas George Hendren, Latin Teacher at Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda, MD, “Ovid, Augustus, and the Exilic Journey in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto” (directed by Jennifer Rea)

Andreas Kramarz, Professor of Cultural Studies, Legionaries of Christ College of Humanities, Cheshire, CT, “Effect and Ethos of Music in Greek and Roman Authors – Exposition and Evaluation” (directed by Jennifer A. Rea)

James Lohmar, Lecturer, College of Charleston, “The Anatomy of Roman Epic: A Study of Poetic Violence” (directed by Jennifer A. Rea)

Michael Ritter, “Historicizing Satire: A Vengance Deferred” (directed by Timothy Johnson)

Brian Sebastian, Latin and Philosophy Teacher at Grace Church School, New York, NY, “Apostrophe to the Gods in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Lucan’s Pharsalia, and Statius’ Thebaid” (directed by Victoria Pagán)

David White, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, Baylor University, “Columella, Res Rustica 10: A Study and Commentary” (directed by Victoria Pagán)

2012

Robert Brewer, Latin Teacher at Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda, MD, “Epic vs Elegaic Identity: A New Model for Roman Leadership in Ovid’s Fasti” (directed by Jennifer Rea)

Cathie Dunar, Randolph School, Huntsville, AL, “Images of the Tiber Island: Art and Archaeology. A Catalog of Artists and Cartographers from the 14th through the 20th Century” (directed by Robert Wagman)

Brenda Fields, Assistant High School Director and IB Coordinator, Windermere Preparatory School, Orlando, FL, “Fear Mongering in Late Republican Rome, 88-28 BCE” (directed by Victoria Pagán)

2011

Jaimie Claymore, Instructor of Foreign Languages, School of Humanities and Fine Arts, Gainesville State College, Oakwood, GA, “Post Reditum: Cicero’s Forensic Repositioning” (directed by Lewis Sussman)

Dustin Heinen, Associate Teaching Professor, North Carolina State University, “Dominating Nature in Vergil’s Georgics and Statius’ Silvae” (directed by Victoria Pagán)

Lindsay Rogers, COO of Sego’s Home Medical Equipment: “Statues in Euripides: Staging, Character, Structure and Metaphor” (directed by Karelisa Hartigan)

2010

Andrew Alwine, Associate Professor of Classics, College of Charleston, “The Rhetoric and Conceptualization of Enmity in Classical Athens” (directed by Andrew Wolpert)

2009

Eleni Bozia, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Florida, “Lucian and his Roman Voices” (directed by Gareth Schmeling)

Robert Patrick, Parkview High School, Lilburn, GA, “Groves in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Domesticity, Wildness, and Transformation” (directed by Jennifer Rea)

2008

Andrew Nichols, Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Florida, “The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus: Translation and Commentary with an Introduction” (directed by Kostas Kapparis)

David McClister, Professor of Biblical Studies, Florida College, “Ethnicity and Jewish Identity in Josephus” (directed by Kostas Kapparis)

Gertrude Harrington-Becker, Lecturer in Classics, Virginia Tech, “Form, Intent, and the Fragmentary Roman Historians 240-63 B.C.E.” (directed by Victoria Pagan)

2007

Randall Childree, Associate Professor of Classics, Furman University, “Making Love, Making Reality: Propertius, Prosopopoeia, and Poetry’s Power of Creation” (directed by Timothy Johnson)

2005

Jonathan Zarecki, Associate Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Cicero’s Ideal Statesman in Theory and Practice” (directed by Lewis Sussman)