Graduate Student Directory

Current Graduate Students

Monica Barcarolo

Email: mbarcaro@buffalo.edu

Christina Bekkali-Poio

BA, Hunter College, CUNY
Sub-area: Roman Archaeology
Interests: Etrusco-Roman Sanctuaries, Etrusco-Roman textile production, Etruscan epigraphy/language, Etrurian countryside
Email: cmbekkal@buffalo.edu

Thomas Buck

BA, Oberlin College
MA, University of Maryland
Sub-area: Greek History
Advisor: Roger Woodard
Interests: “Historiography and rhetoric, ancient criticism, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Herodotus, Thucydides”
Email: thbuck@buffalo.edu

Alice Chapman

BA, Boston University
Sub-area: Greek Archaeology
Advisor: Bradley Ault
Interests: Greek art and archaeology, connections between art and literature, Hellenistic cities and cultures, ekphrasis, Greek sculpture and vase painting.
Email: ajc57@buffalo.edu

Jazz Demetrioff

BA Institution: University of Winnipeg (BA Honours)

MA Institution: Brock University

Sub-area: Roman Archaeology (and History)

Advisor: Dr. 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

Gregory Dzara

BA, Arizona State University
MA, University of Arizona
Sub-area: Roman History
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: Roman Republic, Early Roman Empire, Roman Provinces, Social History, Military History, Ancient Comedy, Theory of Comedy
E-mail: gdzara@buffalo.edu

Leon Jagels Fernández

BA, SUNY New Paltz
Sub-area: Ancient History
Advisor: Ault
Interests: Mediterranean and Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan and Mycenaean Art and Archaeology, Bronze Age Cultural Exchange, Gender in Antiquity
Email: mayajage@buffalo.edu

Grace Harvey

Email: hgharvey@buffalo.edu
Advisor: Martha Malamud

Alexandra Heller

BA, University of Colorado, Boulder
MA, Northern Illinois University
Sub-area: Greek Archaeology
Advisor: Bradley Ault
Interests: Greek sculpture, Hellenistic representations of children, uses of magic in antiquity, representation of emotion in Greek sculpture
Email: alheller@buffalo.edu

Adam Hill

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

Kathryn Joseph

BA, Dickinson College
MA, Brandeis University
Sub-area: Roman Archaeology
Interests: Roman Art and Archaeology, Women and Gender Studies in Roman Culture
Email: kejoseph@buffalo.edu

Shannon Kipybida

BA, SUNY College at Brockport
Sub-area: Ancient History
Interests: Greek History, Classical Law and Society, Greek Art and Archaeology, Greek and Roman myth and its influence on society
Email: sekipybi@buffalo.edu

Lisa Liebmann

BA, University of Maryland
MA, SUNY Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Interests: Roman Art and Archeology, Latin Poetry and Graffiti, Mosaics, Pompeii, Historical Fiction
Email: minnuto@buffalo.edu

Tessa Little

BA, Ohio State University
MA, Brock University
Sub-area: Roman History
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: Greek and Roman Myth; Roman Archaeology; Animals in the Ancient World; Sport and Spectacle; Ethics; Latin literature
Email: tessalit@buffalo.edu

Valerie Long

BA, Hunter College, CUNY
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Alessandro Sebastiani
Interests: Roman archaeology, Roman provinces, Pompeii, mosaics, ancient technology, Italian Bronze Age, Bronze Age interconnections, Ancient Glass, Aeolian Islands, and Mediterranean Connectivity
Email: vlong1@buffalo.edu

Kathleen McGurty

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

Joseph Miller

BA, St. John’s College
MA, St. John’s College
Sub-area: Latin and Greek philology
Advisor: Roger Woodard
Interests: Greek literature, Greek dialect inscriptions, comparative and historical linguistics, Mycenaean
Email: jum3@buffalo.edu

Amy Miu

BA, CUNY Interdisplinary Studies/Hunter College
Sub-area: Greek Philology
Advisor: Roger Woodard
Interests: etymology
Email: amymiu@buffalo.edu

Nozomu Okuda

BS, Brigham Young University
MS, Brigham Young University
Sub-area: Language and Literature
Interests: Computational linguistics, machine learning, computational modeling
Email: nozomuok@buffalo.edu

Cassidy Phelps

BA, Florida State University
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: Roman provinces, imperialism, imperial cult
Email: crphelps@buffalo.edu

Elise Poppen

BA, University of Minnesota
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Bradley Ault
Interests: Roman provinces, Roman Greece, architecture, ancient sport and spectacles
Email: elisepop@buffalo.edu

Travis Qualls

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

William Ramundt

BA, University of Oklahoma
MA, University of Arizona
Sub-area: Roman Archaeology
Advisor: Alessandro Sebastiani
Interests: Economy and trade, Roman ceramics, Etruscan ceramics, Roman villas, water management, and Etruscan/Roman daily life.
Email: wramundt@buffalo.edu

Samuel Stahl

BA, Canisius College
Sub-area: Latin Literature
Advisor: Martha Malamud
Interests: Latin poetry, Late Antiquity, intertextuality, post-classical reception history, satire, encyclopedism, Greek lyric
Email: ststahl@buffalo.edu

Matthew Tocco

BA, Rutgers University
Sub-area: Greek History
Advisor: David Teegarden
Interests: ancient social history; ancient cultural history; Spartan society; identity; gender
Email: mtocco@buffalo.edu

Elisabeth Woldeyohannes

BA, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
MA, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Alessandro Sebastiani
Interests: Early Roman expansion; Continuity of local identities, production, and networks in Etruria; Productive sanctuaries; Landscape Phenomenology
Email: ewoldeyo@buffalo.edu