Christine Boltsi (2022)
Dissertation Title: A Metapoetic Reading of Catullus' Relationship with Lesbia
Advisor: K. Sara Myers
B.A. in Philology (Major: Classics), University of Athens, Greece (2014), M.A. in Classics, University of Athens, Greece (2016): The Shaping of Memory and Identity in the Topography of Augustan Rome. Ph.D. University of Virginia (2022): A Metapoetic Reading of Catullus' Relationship with Lesbia

Peter Moench (2022)
Dissertation Title: Pindar's Physics of Family: Kinship, Heredity, and the Problem of Being Human
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
B.A. St. Olaf College (2009), M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Washington (2012), Ph.D. University of Virginia (2022), Pindar's Physics of Family: Kinship, Heredity, and the Problem of Being Human.

Timothy Brannelly (2021)
Dissertation Title: Jupiter and Juno in Ovid's Fasti: Prismatic Personae and Polarity.
Advisor: John F. Miller and K. Sara Myers
B.A. Cornell University (2008), M.A. University of Virginia (2012): Breaking the Law: Legal Language and Love in Ovid's Amores. Ph.D. (2021) A Clash of Characters: Jupiter and Juno in Ovid's Fasti: Prismatic personae and Polarity.

Matthew Pincus (2021)
Dissertation Title: Voices in the Interstices: Internal Aporia in the Platonic Dialogues.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
B.A. Middlebury College (2011), M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago (2012): Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Erotic Foundations of Philosophy and Imperialism, M.A. University of Virginia (2015): (Re)constructing Athenian Identity: The Cultural Significance of the graphē paranomōn and the graphē nomon mē epitēdeion theinai. Ph.D. University of Virginia (2021): Voices in the Interstices: Internal Aporia in the Platonic Dialogues.

Kevin Scahill (2021)
Dissertation Title: Allusion and Exemplarity in Livy 44 and 45
Advisor: Anthony Corbeill
B.A. in English and Classical Languages, Austin Peay State University (2006); M.A. in English, Austin Peay State University (2013): “Boats Against the Current”: Gatz-Gatsby and Lucifer-Satan; M.A. in Classical Languages, University of Georgia (2014): The Role of Diomedes in Latin Epic. Ph.D. in Classics, University of Virginia (2021): Allusion and Exemplarity in Livy 44 and 45.

Brett Evans (2020)
Dissertation Title: Callimachus and the exchange of cultural capital at court.
Advisor: Ivana Petrovic
B.A. William and Mary (2013), M.A. University of Bristol (2015): Papierlandschaft. Through and Between Tacitus's Agricola and W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, M.A. University of Virginia (2016): Textual Notes on Aeschylus Agamemnon, Ph.D. University of Virginia (2020): Callimachus and the exchange of cultural capital at court.

Rebecca Frank (2020)
Dissertation Title: Plutarch and the Delphic Oracle.
Advisor: Ivana Petrovic
B.A. St. Olaf College (2014), M.A. University of Virginia (2016): Ghostly Statues: The Barren Statue Bases in the Forum of Pompeii. Ph.D. University of Virginia (2020): Plutarch and the Delphic Oracle.

Joseph Zehner (2020)
Dissertation Title: Genealogy in Early Greek Philosophy.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
B.A. Temple University (2010), M.A. in Classics, Texas Tech University (2012), M.A. in Philosophy, Texas Tech University (2013): Interpreting the Pre-Socratic Poets, Ph.D. University of Virginia (2020): Genealogy in Early Greek Philosophy.

Megan Bowen (2018)
Dissertation Title: Prayer and Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Advisor: K. Sara Myers and John F Miller
B.A. University of Colorado (2008), M.A. University of Virginia (2012): Infernal Voices: The Catalogue of Women in Aeneid 6. Ph.D. University of Virgina (2018) Prayer and Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Sarah Teets (2018)
Dissertation Title: One is not born a Greek: Josephus and Cultural Identity in the Against Apion
Advisor: John Dillery
B.A. California State University, Long Beach (2007), M.A. University of Colorado, Bolder (2012): Historian Historicized: The Representation of Nicolaus of Damascus in Josephus' Judaean Antiquities. Ph.D. University of Virginia (2018): One is not born a Greek: Josephus and Cultural Identity in the Against Apion.

Mary Hamil Gilbert (2017)
Disertation Title: Jean Racine Reads the Ancients: Classical Allusions and Ancient Poetics in Andromaque, Britannicus, and Phèdre et Hippolyte.
Advisor: Jon Mikalson
B.A. University of Georgia (2006), M.A. Washington University (2008): Politics and Parody in Aristophanes' Acharnians, Clouds, and Frogs, M.A. University of Virginia (2012): Vergil's Venus: Secret Schemes and Swan Signs in Aeneid 1.

Sarah Herbert (2017)
Dissertation Title: The Philosopher and the Farmer: Spatial metaphor in three conversations in Euripides, Plato, and Xenophon.
Advisor: Sara Myers
B.A. Rice, J.D. Harvard, M.A. University of Virginia (2009): Reckless Yearnings: Odyssean Influences in Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander.

Jocelyn Rohrbach Moore (2017)
Dissertation Title: When You Can't Go Home Again: The Destruction of the oikos in Greek Tragedy.
Advisor: Jon D. Mikalson
B.A. The Catholic University of America (2008), M.A. Washington University in St. Louis (2011).

Hilary Bouxsein (2016)
Dissertation Title: Talking Truth: The Vocabulary of Honesty in Archaic Greek Poetry.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
B.A. St. Olaf (2009), M.A. University of Virginia (2011): Homeric Counterfactuals in Direct Speech. Ph.D. (2016): Talking Truth: The Vocabulary of Honesty in Archaic Greek Poetry.

Courtney Evans (2016)
Dissertation Title: Time in the Odes of Horace.
Advisor: Jenny Clay
B.A. Evergreen State College, Post Bac. Georgetown (2007), M.A. University of Virginia (2009): hoc precor illum: The Language of Separation in Tibullus 1.3, Ph.D. University of Virginia (2016): Time in the Odes of Horace.

Christopher Caterine (2014)
Dissertation Title: A Crisis of Interpretation: Contradiction, Ambiguity, and the Reader of Lucan's Bellum Civile.
Advisor: Gregory Hays
Chris is the author of Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide (2020, Princeton University Press). He has been published in Inside Higher Education, quoted in Nature Careers, and interviewed by numerous post-academic career groups. While in academia, he wrote on Lucan.
Links to relevant material:
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691200194/leaving-academia

Benjamin Jasnow (2014)
Dissertation Title: What the Shepherds Sing: Local Identity in the Bucolic Idylls of Theocritus.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
Ben has published 'Germanicus, Nero and the Incognito King in Tacitus' Annals 2.13 and 13.25', Classical Journal 110 (2015) 313-31, and is now working on 'Poetic and geographical organisation in the Catalogue of Ships' with Jenny Strauss Clay and Courtney Evans. His latest non-classical publication is Georgic Fantasy, with illustrations by John Woodman.

Blanche Conger McCune (2014)
Dissertation Title: Horace's Mythological Lexicon: Recurring Myths and Meaning in the Odes.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
Blanche's latest paper, on Chloe in Horace's Odes, has been accepted for publication in Classical Quarterly.

Daniel Moore (2014)
Dissertation Title: Progress, Learning, and the Benefit of History in Polybius.
Advisor: John Dillery
Daniel's paper on Polybius has been accepted for publication in Classical Quarterly.

Harold Reeves (2014)
Dissertation Title: The Stock Tyrant and the Roman Emperors: The Influence of the Traditional Portrait of Tyranny on Suetonius' Caesares.
Advisor: Tony Woodman

Andrew Beer (2012)
Dissertation Title: Socrates and the Art of Healing Souls: A Study in Socratic Rhetoric.
Advisor: Jon Mikalson

Rachel Bruzzone (2012)
Dissertation Title: Cities as Characters in Thucydides.
Advisor: John Dillery
Rachel's most recent publication is 'Killing the Past in Thucydides' Plataean Debate', Classical Philology 110 (2015) 289-300.

Dan Leon (2012)
Dissertation Title: Arrian, Alexander, and the Limits of the Second Sophistic.
Advisor: John Dillery

Dissertation Title: Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry: Reversals in Plato's Euthydemus.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
Last Publication: Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry: A Reading of Plato's Euthydemus. Berlin De Gruyter, 2014. Georgia is currently Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and is working on a series of papers on Plato. Greek Studies on Site

Daniel Barber (2010)
Dissertation Title: Speaker and Addressee in Horace's Odes.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
Daniel's most recent publicatoin is a review of Whitton's Pliny: Epistles Book II in Classical Journal for 2015.

Tom Garvey (2010)
Dissertation Title: The Flower of Youth: Coming of Age in Homer.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay

Salvador Bartera (2008)
Dissertation Title: A Commentary on Tacitus, Annals 16.1-20.
Advisor: Tony Woodman
Salvador's most recent publication is 'Commentary Writing on the Annals of Tacitus', in Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre (ed. C.S. Kraus & C. Stray, Oxford 2016) 113-35.

Tim Brelinski (2008)
Dissertation Title: Narrative Patterns in the Odyssey: Repetition and the Creation of Meaning.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
Tim's most recent publication is 'Medon meets a Cyclops? Odyssey 22.310-80', Classical Quarterly 65 (2015) 1-13.

Zoe Stamatopoulou (2008)
Dissertation Title: The Reception of Hesiod in Epinician.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay
Zoe's latest publication is 'The Quarrel with Perses and Hesiod's Biographical Tradion', GRBS 51 (2016) 1-17. Her book, Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press later this year.

Stephanie McCarter (2007)
Dissertation Title: Poetry, Philosophy, and Adaptability in Horace's Epistles.
Advisor: K. Sara Myers
Stephanie's first book, Horace between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of Epistles, has recently appeared from University of Wisconsin Press (2015).

Athanassios Vergados (2007)
Dissertation Title: A Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.
Advisor: Jenny Clay
Last Publication: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: Introduction, Text and Commentary. (De Gruyter 2013).
Athanassios Vergados

Daniel Holmes (2006)
Dissertation Title: Power and Persuasion in Aristophanes' Birds.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay