Graduate Students

Sandra Ayikwerah

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Sandra is a PhD student in Classical Philology. She received her B.A and MPhil from the University of Ghana. Her masters thesis "Demonstration of Hubris and its Consequence in Select Ancient Greek Tragic Plays" looked at the concept of hubris and...

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Jeffrey Ryan Banks

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Jeff Banks is a PhD Candidate in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, focusing on ceramics on the Greek Mainland. His dissertation is on the Early Helladic period at Corinth. Jeff has recently worked on Cincinnati projects at the Palce of Nestor and at...

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Alessandro Giovanni Battaglia

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Alessandro Giovanni Battaglia is a sixth year PhD candidate in ancient history with a focus on Roman history. His dissertation focuses on the centralizing policies of the late Roman government. He graduated from Luther College in 2017 with summa cum...

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Michael Jay Bell

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Michael Bell is a second year PhD student in Greek archaeology. He graduated summa cum laude from UNC Greensboro in 2020 with a B.A. in Classical Studies and Archaeology. Michael's research interests include the relationship between technology and...

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Anna Aleksandra Belza

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Anna Belza is a PhD candidate in Aegean Prehistory. Her dissertation is on LBA III Ayia Irini, Kea. She received her B.A. in Classical Studies from Sweet Briar College and her M.A. from Brandeis University. She completed an M.A. thesis at the...

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Haley Elizabeth Bertram

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Haley Bertram is a PhD candidate specializing in Archaic Greek archaeology. Her dissertation, “Producing for the Colonial World: Corinthian Pottery Abroad 750-450 BCE” examines the impact of different consumers on the development of pottery...

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Tiziano Boggio

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Tiziano Boggio is a fifth year PhD candidate in Classical Philology. At the University of Pisa (Italy), he received his BA in 2011 with a thesis entitled:"The Dodecahedron in Plato's Phaedo" and his MA in 2016 with an Italian translation of "The...

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Theodore James Boivin

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Ted Boivin (he/him) is a 6th year PhD candidate in Classical Philology. His dissertation, on the "marked" alternative in the Annales of Tacitus, engages with Tacitus' use of innuendo to reinforce themes of unstable presentation and reception of...

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Graham Christopher Braun

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Graham Braun is a second year PhD student in Bronze Age Archaeology. He holds a B.A. Honours from the University of Victoria and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, where he wrote an M.A. thesis on 'Minoanizing' and 'Mycenaeanizing'...

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Maura Marlene Brennan

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Maura Brennan is a PhD candidate with a focus in Classical Archaeology. She graduated from The College of William & Mary in 2015 with degrees in Music and Classical Archaeology and recieved her MA from UC in 2018. Her research interests currently...

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Maria-Eleni Chalari

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Marialena is a first year PhD student in Bronze Age Archaeology. She holds a B.A. from the University of Ioannina in Greece. She has extended field experience, serving as a trench supervisor at excavations and partaking in research projects in...

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Stuart John Chessman

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Stuart Chessman is a second year PhD student in Classical Philology. He graduated from Princeton with an A.B. in Classics and received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in Classical Languages and Literature. He is primarily interested in...

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Alice Margaret Crowe

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Alice Crowe is a PhD candidate specializing in Aegean Prehistory, with a particular focus on the archaeology of Late Bronze Age Crete. Her dissertation, “Ariadne’s City Unravels. Urban Dissolution at Late Bronze Age Knossos,” considers the physical and...

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Vasileios Dimoglidis

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Vasileios Dimoglidis is a PhD Student in Classics (Greek and Latin Philology). He received his BA and MA in Classics from the University of Ioannina (Greece). His main research areas focus on the concept of Time, Stagecraft, Poetics and the...

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Luiza dos Santos Souza

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Luiza dos Santos Souza is a PhD Candidate in Classical Philology. She received her BA (2013) in Latin and her MA (2016) in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. She is interested in Roman elegiac poetry, metapoetics, education...

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Cleo Lorna Elizabeth-Robertson

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Cleo Elizabeth-Robertson is a first year PhD student in Roman Archaeology. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 with a BA in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, before completing the Baccalaureate program in Classical...

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Jacob M Engstrom

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Jacob Engstrom is a PhD student specializing in Aegean Prehistory. He received his BA Honours with Distinction in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2020. He defended his MA thesis at UC in 2022, offering a critical and...

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Lily Dawn Fisher

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Lily Fisher is a first year PhD student in philology. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Classical Languages and Literatures, and received her Masters from the University of Notre Dame in Classics. Her research interests...

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Nicholas Granitz

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Nicholas is a PhD candidate in Ancient History. He holds a BA in History and Philosophy from Ashland University '11 (summa cum laude), an MA in Ancient History from Indiana University '14, and an MA in Classics from the University of Cincinnati '18....

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Sandani Anupama Halkavidane

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Sandani is a second year student in the M.A. program, with a focus on Aegean Prehistory. She has a B.A. (Honors) in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

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Austin A Hattori

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A.B. Classical Languages, University of Georgia 2018
M.A. Classics, University of Cincinnati 2022

Before coming to the University of Cincinnati, Austin was an undergraduate at the University of Georgia. His undergraduate thesis, "The Rhetoric of...

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Christopher J Hayward

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Christopher Hayward is a fifth year PhD student in classical archaeology, with a BA in classics and a BSc in chemistry from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an MA in classics from the University of Cincinnati. His main interests are in...

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Molly Jean Katkin

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Molly Katkin is a PhD student in Classical Archaeology. She graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago with a BA with honors in Classics and a BA in Comparative Human Development. She has research interests broadly in Etruscan religion,...

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Sydney Michaela Kennedy

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Sydney Kennedy is a second-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology. She graduated summa cum laude in 2022 from the College of William & Mary with her BA in Classical Archaeology. She received Highest Honors for her honors thesis, “Taking...

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Rebecca Lyn Kerns

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Rebecca Kerns is a PhD candidate specializing in Roman archaeology. Her dissertation examines Roman architectural approaches to fire prevention, combining historical and archaeological perspectives to gain insight on the ways Roman cities dealt...

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John M Kunst

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John Kunst is a first-year Ph.D. student specializing in Ancient History. He received his Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Illinois State University in 2022. His undergraduate thesis, "Soldier-Engineers: Siege Warfare and Virtus in De Bello...

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Brendan Patrick Landell

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Brendan Landell is a sixth year Ph.D. student in Classical Philology. Brendan received his B.A. from Thomas Aquinas College in 2003, and taught high-school for seven years before resuming his studies. He completed the Post-Baccalaureate Program in...

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Michelle Anguita Lessard

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Michelle Lessard is a fourth year PhD student in the Philology program. Before coming to University of Cincinnati, she taught Latin in Massachusetts for five years. At Vassar College she majored in Classics and Biology, and she continues to be...

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Zimo Liang

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Zimo Liang（梁子墨）is a first-year master's student in Ancient History. He received his B.A. in History from Peking University in 2023 with a certificate in Classical Studies. He is mainly interested in Roman Greece in the Early and High Empire, with a...

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Christopher Miller

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CJ Miller is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Roman History. He graduated from Bates College in 2010 with a B.A in Classical and Medieval Studies. After a year at the University of Pennsylvania's Post-Baccalaureate program, he attended Boston...

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Maria Mina

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Maria Mina is a Ph.D student in Aegean Prehistory. She earned her B.A. in Archeology and Art History from the University of Athens and her M.A. in Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Groningen. Her research interests...

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Patrick Gaughan O'Callahan

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Patrick Gaughan O'Callahan is a second-year Ph.D. student in Ancient History. He graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Classics in 2015. His undergraduate thesis investigated the changing patterns of civic honors in Athens during the 4th...

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Giulia Paglione

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Giulia is a third year PhD student specializing in Aegean Prehistory. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rome La Sapienza with a BA in Classics and an MA in Philology, Literature and History of the Ancient World. Her BA and MA...

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Allie Meelyn Pohler

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Allie Pohler (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Philology. She specializes in Roman comedy researching questions of gender, class, trauma, and enslavement. Her dissertation, “Terence’s Offstage Virgo: The (De)construction of a Stock...

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Cinzia Sarafina Presti

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Cinzia is a PhD student specializing in Roman Archaeology. She defended her MA at the University of Cincinnati in 2022 for her thesis titled, Architectural Furnishings as Evidence of Local Intentionality in Etruscan Tombs. She graduated summa cum...

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Alex Bullock Reese

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Alex Reese is a second year student PhD student in Classical Philology. In 2019, she graduated from Utah State University with her BA, with majors in English Literature and Philosophy and a minor in Latin. She went on to receive her MA in Ancient...

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Kelsey Anne Frable Schalo

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Kelsey Schalo is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Classical Philology. She has an MA in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Arkansas; her thesis is titled "Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in The Golden Ass." Current...

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Kaitlyn Danielle Siersema

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Kaitlyn is a second year PhD student in Classical Philology. She graduated Summa cum laude from Grand Valley State University in 2022 with a BA in Classical Studies. While at Grand Valley State, she received the Excellence in a Discipline Award. Her...

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Charles J Sturge

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Charles is a Ph.D candidate in Aegean Prehistory. His dissertation is provisionally entitled 'From Pots to People, Commensal Behaviours of the Late Bronze Age Aegean in Comparative Perspective'. It aims to use a 'big data' approach to analyse...

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Callaghan Marie Todhunter

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Callaghan is a third-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology. She received her MA in Classics from the University of Iowa in 2021. She received her BA with honors from the same institution in 2019. Callaghan’s primary research interests lie in...

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Valia Tsikritea

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Valia Tsikritea is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age archaeology. Her dissertation "An Archaeology of Cult at Juktas,
Crete: Early Iron Age Pottery and Figurines from the 'Tomb of Zeus'" is a study of the 12th-7th...

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Christine Marie Weber

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Christine is a second-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology specilizing in Aegean Prehistory. She recieved her BA in Art History and Archaeology with a minor in Ancient Mediterranean Studies from the College of Wooster in 2021 and was awarded...

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Tianqi Zhu

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Tianqi Zhu is a fourth year PhD student in Classical Archaeology (currently in Greece). He is broadly interested in the history and archaeology of the Roman Empire, with focuses on epigraphy, urbanization, and civic life of the eastern provinces...

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