Graduate Students

Brent Arehart

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Brent Arehart graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a B.A. in Classics and Religion. He is a Ph.D track student in Ancient History with interests in ancient medicine, pharmacology, the history of science, and early Christianities.

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Sandra Ayikwerah

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Sandra is a first year PhD student in 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 fifth year PhD candidate in ancient history with a focus on Roman history. He graduated from Luther College in 2017 with summa cum laude degrees in Classics and History. His undergraduate thesis was entitled: "The...

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Sarah Evelyn Beal

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Sarah Beal is a PhD candidate specializing in Classical Archaeology. During the 2020-2021 academic year, Sarah received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Cincinnati and was recognized as an Honorable Mention for Excellence in...

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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 the LBA III material from 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....

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Haley 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 fourth year PhD student 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 is a fourth year PhD student in Classical Philology. He graduated from Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH in 2018 with a B.A. in Classics. His research interests broadly are in Latin imperial epic (especially Ovid and Lucan),...

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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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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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Cecilia Cozzi

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Cecilia Cozzi is a fifth year PhD candidate in Philology.
She received her BA from University of Trento (Italy) in 2014 and her MA from university of Trento (Italy) in 2016. In 2015, she was a visiting student at Carleton University (Ottawa,...

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Alice Margaret Crowe

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Alice Crowe is a PhD candidate specializing in Aegean Prehistory. Her dissertation, “Beyond the Walls of the Labyrinth: A Site-wide Perspective on Final Palatial and Postpalatial Knossos,” is a study of the Knossos settlement during its “Mycenaean” phase...

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Dalton James Davis

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Dalton James Davis is a first-year master's student specializing in Ancient History. He graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2021 with a B.A. in Classics and History, where his undergraduate work focused on Roman numismatics....

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Vasileios Dimoglidis

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Vasileios Dimoglidis is a second year PhD Student in Classics (Ancient 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,...

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Luiza dos Santos Souza

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Luiza dos Santos Souza is a fourth year PhD student 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,...

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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. His honours thesis analyzed Tomb 11 at ancient Eleon,...

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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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Maria Gaki

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Maria Gaki is a fifth year PhD student in Classical Philology. She received her BA (2010) and MA (2014) in Classical Philology form Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her focus is on the Hellenistic period. She is mainly interested in...

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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...

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Duccio Guasti

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BA in Classics 2012, Florence
MA in Historical Linguistics 2016, Humboldt-univ. zu Berlin
Graduate student in Cincinnati since 2016.

My main points of interest are historical linguistics and Greek poetry

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Austin A Hattori

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A.B. Classical Languages, University of Georgia

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

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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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Sashini Kannan

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Sashini Kannan is a first year MA student in Philology. She received her BA in Classical Culture and Society and Psychology from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 with a thesis entitled "An Exploration of Gender and Sexuality in The Life of St. Euphrosyne...

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Rebecca Lyn Kerns

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Rebecca Kerns is a third year PhD student specializing in Roman archaeology. She graduated magna cum laude from DePauw University with a BA in Classics. Her research interests include spatial technology applications in archaeology, digital...

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Charlie J. Kocurek

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Charlie Kocurek is a third-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology. She received her BA Honours in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Victoria in 2019 and completed her MA at the University of Cincinnati in 2022 with a thesis entitled "Early...

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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 second year PhD student in the Philology program. Before coming to University of Cincinnati, she taught Middle School Latin in Massachusets for five years. At Vassar College she majored in Classics and Biology, and she...

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Andrew R. Lund

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Andrew R. Lund ("Andy," he/him/his) is the Resident Instructor for the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome ("the Centro") for the 2021-2022 academic year. Previously he was the Classical Languages and Cultural Program Coordinator...

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Nora J Madrigal

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Nora Madrigal is a Masters student in Classical Philology. She received her B.A. in Classics and Chemistry with honors from Grinnell College in 2019, where her undergraduate thesis work focused on the application of narrative theory to the Iliad....

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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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Giulia Paglione

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Giulia is a first year PhD student specializing in Aegean Prehistory. She graduated with honors from the University of Rome La Sapienza with a B.A. in Classics and an M.A. in Philology, Literatures and History of the Ancient World. Her main...

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Kimberly Passaro

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Kimberly Passaro is a fifth-year PhD student in Classical Philology. She received her BA in Classics and Religious Studies from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2016. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, ancient Mediterranean religions,...

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Allie Meelyn Pohler

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Allie Pohler (she/her) is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Classical Philology. Her research interests include Roman comedy and the Greek and Roman novels. She loves to introduce new students to ancient Greece and Rome through her pedagogy and...

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Cinzia Sarafina Presti

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Cinzia is a second year PhD student in Classical Archaeology. She received her BA in Classics and Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2020 with her Honors Thesis titled, The Infrastructural Landscape of Ancient Tharros: A GIS...

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Heather Danielle Richard

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Heather Richard is a first-year PhD student in Ancient History focusing on the political and economic networks of the Hellenistic Mediterranean. Her research interests center on the early Ptolemaic kings, and the ways in which they interacted,...

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Kelsey Anne Frable Schalo

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Kelsey Schalo is a second-year PhD candidate 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." 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 first-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, with a major in Ancient Civilizations and minors 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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Efthymia Tsiolaki

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Efthymia Tsiolaki is a Ph.D. candidate concentrating in Aegean Prehistory. She received her B.A. in History and Archaeology and her M.A. in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her dissertation examines...

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Federico Vannini

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Federico Vannini is a first year PhD student in Classical philology. He taught Greek, Latin, history, and Italian literature in Italian high schools for five years. He graduated from University of Florence (Italy) in Ancient literature (B.A.) and...

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Christine Marie Weber

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Christine is a first-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology specilizing in Aegean Prehistory. She received her BA in Art History and Archaeology with a minor in Ancient Mediterranean Studies from the College of Wooster in 2021. Her undergraduate honors...

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Sarah Wenner

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Sarah is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Archaeology. She received her BA in Anthropology and Economics from Albion College in 2010 and her MA in Ancient History from North Carolina State University in 2015. She has worked at many sites in Jordan, at...

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Angelica Rae Wisenbarger

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Angelica successfully defended her dissertation for the Ph.D., Fructus Causa: Menippean and Mystery Aesthetics in the Agricultural Manuals of Varro and Vergil, in 2021. She holds a BA in Classics from Denison University and MPhil from Cambridge...

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Christine Wong

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Christine Wong is a PhD student in Ancient History. She earned her BA in Near Eastern and European History at the University of California, San Diego and her MA in History at San Diego State University. Her research interests include the...

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Tianqi Zhu

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Tianqi Zhu is a second year PhD student in Classical Archaeology. He is broadly interested in the history and archaeology of the Roman Empire, with particular interests in the epigraphy, urbanization, and civic life of the eastern provinces and the...

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