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RANA SAADI LIEBERT. BA (Classics), Bard College, 2001. MA (Classics), Yale University, 2003. Research Interests: Greek poetry in general, in particular Pindar and Theokritos; theories of inspiration and enchantment in the experience of fiction; ancient literary criticism, modern literary criticism. BRAD ATWELL. BA (Classics), Washington University, 2000. Research Interests: Roman history, state formation, and general systems theory.
DANIEL BANDSTRA. BA (Classical Studies), College of Wooster, 2004. Research Interests: Greek Linguistics, Roman Elegiac Poetry.
GEOFFERY BENSON. BA (Classics), Princeton University, 2006. Research Interests: Latin Epic (especially Statius' Achilleid); Roman myth; the Hellenistic period; early Christianity.
URSULA C BERGSTROM. BA (Physics), Wesleyan University, 1998. MA (Humanities), University of Chicago, pending 2007. Research Interests: scholarly and literary work done at the Alexandrian Museum, and Ptolemaic Egypt more generally.
CARIN LEE CALABRESE. BA (Liberal Arts), St. Johns College, 1991. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 1997. Research Interests: Greek Tragedy, Feminist Theory, Literary Theory. Dissertation: “Cassandra's Epinician: Domination, Agency, and Resistance in Euripides' Trojan Plays”. Most Recent Papers: “Domination and Agency in the Troades,” APA Meeting, Montreal, January 2006; “Male Beauty Contests in Ancient Greece,” Summer Language Institute at the University of Chicago, summer 1999; “Kassandra’s Epinikian,” CAMWS Conference, Cleveland OH, spring 1999.
DEBORAH H. CROMLEY. BA (Classics), Smith College, 1988. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 1994. Research Interests: The novel (ancient and modern), literary criticism, ancient rhetorical theory and practice. Most Recent Papers: ?Representations of Women in the Discourse on Democracy: A reading of [Demosthenes] 59 and Xenophon?s Oeconomicus,? APA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, December 1994.
EDWARD DANDROW. BA (English and Psychology), University of Central Florida, 1992. MA (Classical Civilization), Florida State University, 1997. Research Interests: Greek and Latin literature; ancient history; ethnography. Dissertation: “Strabo and Greek Identity in the Age of Augustus: Memory, Tradition and Ethnographic Representation.”
SHAWN DEELEY. BA (Classics), University of Houston, 2001. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2003. Research Interests: Latin literature of the Late Republic and Early Principate; Roman historiography; and the Classical Tradition. Dissertation: “Conversing with Crowds: The Crowd and the Masses in Roman Literature.”
JANET DOWNIE. BA (English Literature and Classical Languages and Literature), University of Victoria, 1998. MA (Late Antique and Byzantine Studies), Kings College London, 2000. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2003. Research Interests: Second Sophistic literature, Roman Imperial culture, Ancient Medicine, Rhetoric, Greek poetry. Dissertation: “The Mysteries of Oratory”: Divine Inspiration and the Unhealthy Body in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi. Most Recent Papers: “Proper Pleasures: Bathing and Oratory in Aelius Aristides’ First Sacred Tale” Symposium on Aelius Aristides, Columbia University (April 2007).
ROBERT GERMANY. BA (Classics), University of Texas at Austin, 2000. Research Interests: Roman comedy; the ancient novel; the Homeric Hymns; magic in Latin literature; 18th and 19th-century German reception of Classics.
LINDA HADDAD. BA (Classics and English), Loyola Marymount University, 2000. Research Interests: ancient and modern literary criticism; Latin poetry of the Late Republic and Early Empire; poetic translation.
JODI HARALDSON-NOONAN. BA (Classics), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000. MA (Classics), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2003. Research Interests: Ovid; Latin literature of the Late Republic and Early Empire; Roman culture.
NICHOLAS HOULIHAN. BA (Classics), Colby College, 2001. BA (Classics), King’s College Cambridge, 2003. Research Interests: ancient philosophy, particularly epistemology and problems of language.
TOBIAS JOHO. BA (Literae Humaniores), University of Oxford, 2004. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2006. Research Interests: Greek Tragedy, Greek and Roman Historiography, Plato; German Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Century (joint degree with Committee on Social Thought).
EMILY JUSINO. BA (Classics and Theater), College of William and Mary, 2001. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2004. Research Interests: Ancient theater, mythology.
RAYMOND KANIA. BA (Classics), The University of Michigan, 2002. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2003. Research Interests: Greek and Latin poetry, especially bucolic; ancient literary criticism, including the idea of fiction Most Recent Papers: ?The Lament for Bion as Bucolic Fiction,? Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, April 2005.
ALLYSSA LAMB. BA (Classics) and BA (Biblical and Ancient Near East Studies), University of Washington, 2004. M.Phil (Egyptology) Oxford University, 2006. Interests: Hellenistic history; religion in the Egypt and the Near East during the Hellenistic and Roman periods; Hellenistic literature; Late Period Egyptian literature; the ancient novel; the historiography of Alexander the Great.
ALEXANDER LEE. BA (Classics and Computer Science), Stanford, 2003. Research Interests: Ancient Greek mathematics, its relation to philosophy, and its influence on medieval Islamic science; the development of Greek geometry and the broader culture of scientific debate; linguistics, papyrology, and paleography.
TERESA LEMIEUX BA (Classics and Drama), University of Dallas, 2001. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2005. Research Interests: Greek tragedy and comedy, including production history; female roles; and theatre as religious ritual.
KATHERINE MILCO. BA, Marquette University, 2003. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2004.
HANNAH MINKUS. BA (Classics), Princeton University, 2002. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2004. Research Interests: early Greek poetry, ancient religion and cult, Republican and Augustan poetry.
DIANA MOSER. BA (Classics), Columbia University, 2003. Research Interests: Latin literature, especially imagery in Horace; satire.
JOHN PAULAS BA (Classics), Davidson College, 1999. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2002. Most recent paper: "A Heaping Dish of Paideia," Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2006. Dissertation: "Diet of the Learned: Athenaeus's Ethical Philology of Consumption."
FRANCESCA SARDI. BA (Lettere Classiche), Università degli Studi di Milano, 1999. MA (Classical Languages and Literature), University of Chicago, 2002. Research Interests: Early Greek poetry (Homer and Hesiod), mythology, description of psychological processes in archaic Greek poetry. Dissertation: "Psychological activity in the Homeric Circe episode." Most Recent Papers: “How Darius tricked isonomy: Deceit, monarchic power and isonomy in the third book of Herodotus’ Histories,” Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, February 2004; “The errors of Odysseus: atasthalia and hybris,” Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, November 2006.
AARON SEIDER. BA (Classics), Brown University, 2002; Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-4; MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2005; Summer Session at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006. Research Interests: Augustan poetry; Greek and Latin lyric poetry; myth. Recent Papers: "Vergil’s Sixth Eclogue and Creative Freedom" CAMWS 2007; "Vergil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Freedom of Song," Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2007; "Husband or Boyfriend? The Elegiac Lover in the Face of Adultery," CAMWS 2006.
JESSICA SEIDMAN. BA (Classics), Brown University , 2002. Research Interests: Latin poetry of the Late Republic/Early Empire; allusion.
FRANCES SPALTRO. BA (Classics and English), San Diego State University, 1991. MA (Classics), San Francisco State University, 1995. Research interests: Greek and Roman historiography, ancient and modern Greek dance, Latin and Greek pedagogy, philosophy of education, Greek archaic poetry Dissertation: Dancing for Athena: the Pyrrhic Dance and the Perfect Citizen in Plato's Laws
TRICIA WILSON-OKAMURA. BA (Classics), Stanford University, 1992. MA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 1999.
JANIE ZUBER. BA (Classics), Northwestern University, 1998. MA (Classics), University of Chicago, 2000. Research Interests: Latin Literature; satire; Latin pedagogy; underwater archaeology. Dissertation: “Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and Satire.” Publications: “Lucretia,” in C. A. Salowey (ed.), Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 CE, Salem Press, 2004. Most Recent Papers: "The Satiric (In)digestion of the Apocolocyntosis." Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, October 2004; "Speaking of (in) Genre...: Rhetorical Narrative in Tacitus and Cicero," Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2001.

PAMW
NATASHA BERSHADSKY. BA (Psychology and Linguistics), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998. MA (Classical Civilizations), Harvard, 2003. Research Interests: Homeric and Hesiodic traditions; oral poetry; relation between local and pan-Hellenic; connections between literature and ritual, art and ritual, art and literature; Proto-Indo-European poetics; Northwest Semitic and Anatolian languages and cultures. Most Recent Papers: “Death of Kebriones: Diving Birds, Mockery and Local Tradition,” APA Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2005; “Unbreakable Shield: A Difference between sakos and aspis in the Iliad,” APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2004.
ARI BRYEN. BA (Classics and History), University of Maryland, 2001. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2003. Research Interests: Anthropology of violence and revenge; papyrology; Late Antique Near East.
ZOE EISENMAN. BA (Greek), Vassar College, 1985. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 1989. Research Interests: Greek and Roman history; social history; philosophy; religion; mythology; gender studies. Dissertation: “The Symbolism of Hair in Ancient Greece and Rome.” Most Recent Papers: “Bad Hair Day: Myths of Hair and Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” University of Chicago Graham School, October 2004.
PAUL KEEN. BA (Classics and Greek), Franklin & Marshall College, 2002. MA (Ancient History), University of London, 2003. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2005. Research Interests: Greek economic history; epigraphy; literacy; Greek law.
THOMAS KEITH. BA (Classics, History, and Mathematics), University of Texas at Austin, 2004; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2005. Research Interests: religion in the Greek polis; Aegean Greece in the Hellenistic period, especially Hellenistic Athens; ancient historiography.
JUSTIN MANSFIELD. BA (Classical Languages), Macalester College, 1996. Research Interests: linguistics; Egypt and the Classical world.
TIMOTHY MCGOVERN. BA (Classics and History), University of Chicago, 1999. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2000. Research Interests: Hellenistic Judaism; notions and representations of time, the past, and the future in antiquity.
JACOBO MYERSTON. MA (Greek Philology and Religious Studies), Tübingen, 2000. Research Interests: Greek philosophy and drama; Akkadian epic and divination; culture contacts; sociology of knowledge; literature and religion; computational linguistics and social simulation. Publications: “Introducción a la lingüística computacional con una perspectiva interdisciplinaria. Terminometro. Ed. Unión Latina,” Número. 6 (2002).
MEGAN NUTZMAN. BA (History), Hillsdale College, 1999. MTS (Theological Studies), Holy Cross School of Theology, 2003. ThM (Theology), Holy Cross Schol of Theology, 2005. Research Interests: early Christianity; Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism; religious art and architecture; pilgrimage; ritual; women in ancient religion.
BART VAN WASSENHOVE. MA (History), Ghent University, 2006. Francqui Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2007-8). Research interests: emotions in antiquity, self and self-presentation, historiography, Greek philosophy in a Roman context, interdisciplinary approaches. Publications: “The Representation of Galba in Suetonius”, Athenaeum (2008). Recent Papers: “Political Emotions: Cicero's Exilic Grief”, UK Classical Association Conference, Birmingham (April 2007).
PHILIP VENTICINQUE. BA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2001. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2002. Research Interests: history, religion, and literature of Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt; Coptic literature and sources; papyrology; early Christianity; imperial cult; law and society; historiography. Most Recent Papers: “The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Hierodouloi and Child Oblates in Late Antique Egypt," APA Annual Meeting, Boston, 2005; “Social Climbing: provincial towns, local elites and the Imperial Cult in North Africa,” Archaeology Department Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2005; “Friends in High Places: The Church and Civil Authority in Late Antique and Coptic Egypt,” CAMWS, Madison, April 2005; “Guilds in the Economy and Society of Roman Egypt,” Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago, June 2006; “What’s in a Name?: Greek, Egyptian and Biblical traditions in the Cambyses Romance,” APA, Montreal, 2006; Late Antique and Byzantine Studies/Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2006.
JANG WON YI. BA (Ancient History), Korea University, 1994. MA (Ancient History), Korea University, 1996. Interests: the political and cultural history of Greece; Greek mythology; cultural exchange in the west and east; the Athenian claim to autochthony in relation to Sparta.

Committee on Social Thought
VICTORIA ALBRITOON.
KATHERINE KRETLER.
MAUREEN MAHOWALD.
BRIAN SATTERFIELD.
KENDALL SHARP.

History
ELIZABETH FAGAN.
CAM HAWKINS.
LORRE LUTHER.
LARISA MASRI.
MATTHEW PERRY.

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