Graduate Student Directory

Monica Barcarolo

Jazz Demetrioff

  • BA Institution: University of Winnipeg (BA Honours)
  • MA Institution: Brock University
  • Sub-area: Roman Archaeology (and History)
  • Advisor: Alessandro Sebastiani
  • Interests: health in antiquity (pharmacology, diseases, and snakes in the medical realm), Roman socio-cultural history, Roman archaeology, Pliny the Elder
  • Email:  jazzdeme@buffalo.edu

Robert Gress

Adam Hill

  • BA Institution: Marshall University
  • Sub-area: Language and Literature
  • Advisor:  Roger Woodard
  • Interests: Latin Literature, Greek and Roman Philosophy, Etymology, Mythology, Magic/Ritual, Reception
  • Email:  ahill22@buffalo.edu

Charles Hill

John James

  • BA Institution: Hillsdale College, BA in Classical Studies
  • MA Institution: Polis—The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities, MA in Ancient Philology
  • Sub-area: Language and Literature
  • Advisor:  Roger Woodard
  • Interests: Ancient Greek and Latin philology, linguistics, poetics, rhetoric, ancient theories of language, ancient language pedagogy, grammar
  • Email: jrjames2@buffalo.edu

Kathleen McGurty

  • BA Institution: Gettysburg College
  • Sub-area:  Greek Archaeology
  • Interests:  Greek household archaeology, Gender archaeology, Ancient toys
  • Email:  kmcgurty@buffalo.edu

Madi Pehringer

  • BA Institution: Michigan State University 
  • Sub-area: language and literature
  • Advisor:  Jackie Murray
  • Interests: Hellenistic Egypt and the Near East, representations of women in ancient literature, biography in antiquity, modern reception 
  • Email:  mppehrin@buffalo.edu

Travis Qualls

  • BA Institution: University of North Texas
  • MA Institution: University of Dallas
  • Sub-area:  Language and Literature
  • Advisor:  Roger Woodard
  • Interests: poetry and philosophy, politics, imperialism, Thucydides, Horace, Vergil, Homer, Lucretius, tragedy
  • Email:  travisqu@buffalo.edu

Shaan Vernenkar

  • BA Institution: Hobart and William Smith Colleges 
  • Sub-area: Language and Literature (Latin)
  • Interests: Latin as a living language, oral tradition, Late Republican/Early Imperial Latin prose, Stoic philosophy, Socratic method, Aristophanes, Roman Numismatics
  • Email: shaanver@buffalo.edu