Graduate Student Directory

Monica Barcarolo

Tina Bekkali-Poio

  • BA, Hunter College, CUNY
  • MA, University at Buffalo
  • Sub-area: Roman Archaeology
  • Advisor: Bradley Ault
  • Interests:  Etruscan households, Etruscan textile production, Etruscan sacred space and votive offerings, more–than–human agency, gender archaeology
  • Email: cmbekkal@buffalo.edu

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, 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, 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

Madi Pehringer

  • BA - 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, University of North Texas
  • MA, University of Dallas
  • Sub-area:  Language and Literature
  • Advisor:  Roger Woodard
  • 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