Recent PhD Dissertations

CHAPMAN, A.

• Title:  "The Duties of a Household Manager. Women’s Roles in the Creation and Presentation of Social Identity in Classical/Late Classical Greece: An Interpretation of the Domestic and Mortuary Ceramic Assemblages at Halieis"
• Advisor:  Ault

OKUDA, N.

• Title:  "Deep Learning for Intertext Discovery in Latin Epic: Latin SBERT and the Lucan-Vergil Benchmark"
• Advisor:  Coffee

POPPEN, E.

• Title:  Urban and Rural Households in Roman Attica
• Advisor:  Ault

MAZUREK, A.

• Title:  "By Land and Sea: Reconstructing the Culture of Etruscan Warfare"
• Advisor:  Dyson

SALVO, D.

• Title:  From Invaders to Immigrants: The Goths and the Roman Empire in the 4th Century AD
• Advisor:  Dyson

HUEMER, M.

• Title:  "The Punic House in Context: Domestic Architecture and Urban Planning in the Central Mediterranean."
• Advisor:  Ault

DURANT, N.

• Title:  "Lost and Found on the Frontier: Modeling Forts and Landscape in Scythia Minor (4th-7th centuries A.D.)."
  Advisor:  Ault

GAWLEY, JAMES

• Title: "Vergil's Allusions to Homer: Quantifying the Reader's Experience of Aeneid 1."
  Advisor:  Coffee

MCGLIN, MICHAEL

• Title:  “Sacred Loans, Sacred Interest(s): An Economic Analysis of Temple Loans from Independent Delos (314-167 BCE)”
  Advisor:  Higbie
   

BETELLO, MASSIMO

• Title:  "Management and Exploitation of Pedestrian Traffic in Pompeii"
  Advisor:  Dyson

RADLOFF, LANA

• Title: “Maritime Dynamics and the Polis in Hellenistic Asia Minor (323-c.133 BCE)
  Advisor:  Higbie

HUGHES, R.

• Title: “Agricultural Development and Dietary Change in Switzerland from the Hallstatt (800 B.C.E.) to the rise of the Carolingian Dynasty (754 C.E.)”
  Advisor: Dyson

KRANTZ, J.

• Title: “Dialects and Identity: The Ancient Greek view of Greek Dialects.”
  Advisor: Higbie

LAMBERTO, K.

• Title: "The Power Dynamics of Sound in Dionysiac Cult and Myth.”
  Advisor: Higbie

VENNARUCCI, R.

• Title:  "A City of Shops, a Nation of Shopkeepers’: fixed point retailing in the city of Rome, late 3rd c BCE to 2nd/3rd c CE."
  Advisor: Dyson

ARTZ, J.

• Title: "The Drainage Network of the Athenian Agora."
  Advisor: Ault

BURNS, K.

• Title: "The Magna Mater Romana:  A Sociocultural Study of the Cult of the Magna Materin Republic Rome."
  Advisor: Dyson

ROTH, K.

• Title: "Learning Latin as a Second Language, Using Latin for a Third; a Linguistic and Pedagogical investigation of Neo-Latin Foreign Language Textbooks."
  Advisor: Woodard

WARFORD, E.

• Title: "The Multipolar Polis:  A Study of Processing in Classical Athens and the Attic Countryside."
  Advisor: Higbie

BUELL, M.

• Title:"Regional Organization in the Aegean Bronze Age and  Near East: A Comparative Study of Three Regions, the Amuq, the Upper Pediada, and Messenia."
  Advisor: Ault

FORSTALL, C.

• Title:"De Homeri Ingenio:  Aspects of Oral -Formulaic Composition in the Iliad."
  Advisor: Woodard

POYER, E.

• Title: "Aklepios at the Nexus of Divination and Medicine."
  Advisor: Higbie

SOBOLEWSKI, S.

• Title: "Love in the Hands of the Commentator: Servius Reads Vergilian Erotics."
  Advisor: Coffee

THOMPSON, G.

• Title: "A Comparative Study of Near Eastern and Aegean Glyptic Art, 2000 – 1400 B.C.: Combat, Hunt, Chariot, Boar, Goat, Bird, and Bull Scenes."
  Advisor: Watrous

WILLIAMS, J.

• Title:  "Surveillance, Visibility, and the Colonial Encounter in the Early Roman Alentejo, Portugal: 100 B.C.E. – 100 C.E."
  Advisor: Ault

AYER, M.

• Title:"The Ones that Got Away: Refugees in Classical and Hellenistic Greece."
  Advisor: Higbie