Alumnae/i
The alumnae/i listed below represent some of the many career paths open to graduates of the three departments in the Graduate Group. For complete lists of alumnae/i please see the webpages of the respective departments.
Archaeology
Name | Dissertation | Current Position |
Johanna Best (Ph.D., 2015) |
Religion of the Roadways: Roadside Sacred Spaces in Attica (director: A.A. Donohue) | Program Manager for Scholarly and Public Engagement, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow in the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative |
(Ph.D., 2009) |
hoi peri to hieron: A Study of Sacerdotal Housing at Ancient Greek Sanctuaries (director: Stella Miller-Collett) | Librarian, Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks |
(Ph.D., 2007) |
Socio-Economic Studies in the Territory of Antioch in the High Roman Empire (director: Russell Scott) | Assistant Professor, Florida State University |
(Ph.D., 2012) |
A Walk through the Past: Toward a Study of Archaeological Museums in Italy, Greece, and Israel (director: A.A. Donohue) | Collections Development Librarian, Blegen Library, American School of Classical Studies, Athens |
​(Ph.D., 2009) |
Roman Wall Painting from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece: A Contextual Study (director: Stella Miller-Collett) | Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities |
(Ph.D., 2017) |
Decoding Meaning in Athenian Vase-Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods: A Study of Expression of Communication and Targeted Audiences (director: Astrid Lindenlauf) | Schuch-Friend of Classics Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics and Digital Humanities, San Diego State University |
Laura Surtees (Ph.D., 2012) |
On the Surface of a Thessalian City: The Urban Survey of Kastro Kallithea (directors: Astrid Lindenlauf and James C. Wright) | Research and Instruction Librarian, Coordinator of Rhys Carpenter Library, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï |
(Ph.D., 2011) |
The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period (director: James C. Wright) |
Associate Professor of History, Interim Provost & Dean of the Faculty, Coe College
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Classics
Name | Dissertation | Current Position |
Lee Burnett (Ph.D., 2018) |
Saturnalicia Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persius, and Petronius (director: Catherine Conybeare) | Instructor, Episcopal Academy |
(A.B.D., 2015) |
The Neo-Latin Supplements to Vergil's Aeneid, 1400-1700 (director: Annette M. Baertschi) |
Instructor of Greek and Latin and Chair of Humanities Department,Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary
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(Ph.D., 2009) |
Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?: The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in Paschale carmen (director: Catherine Conybeare) | Associate Professor of Classics, Chairman of Collegiate Scholars Program, Hillsdale College |
​(Ph.D., 2005) |
Ethnicity and empire: Vergilian imitation in Silius Italicus' 'Punica' (director: Russell Scott) | Instructor III, Carleton University |
Charlie Kuper (Ph.D., 2017) |
The Latin Dialogue from Minucius Felix to Gregory the Great (director: Catherine Conybeare) | Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bavarian Academy, Munich |
​(Ph.D., 2014) |
Roman Nostalgia: Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature (director: Catherine Conybeare) | Assistant Professor of Instruction in Classics, Temple University |
​(Ph.D., 2017) |
Recontextualizing Military Structures along the Stanegate and Hadrian's Wall Utilizing Aerial Photography and GIS Mapping (director: Russell Scott) | Co-founder & CEO, Logoi Learning Systems |
Abbe Walker (Ph.D., 2017) |
Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: Virginity and Death in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome (directors: Catherine Conybeare and Radcliffe Edmonds) | Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, Connecticut College |
History of Art
Name | Dissertation | Current Position |
(Ph.D., 2012) |
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900 (director: Dale Kinney) | Associate Professor, Department of History of Art & Visual Studies, Cornell University |
Maeve Doyle (Ph.D., 2015) |
The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230-1320 (director: Dale Kinney) | Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University |
(Ph.D., 2013) |
Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay (director: Lisa Saltzman) | Visiting Assistant Professor, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï and Swarthmore Colleges |
(Ph.D., 2007) |
Rembrandt's Spaces (director: Christiane Hertel) | Associate Curator of European Painting, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art |
​(Ph.D., 2014) |
Cinema at the Crossroads: Bruce Conner's Atomic Sublime, 1958-2008 (director: Homay King) | at the Center for Western Civilization, Policy, and Thought and in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder |
(Ph.D., 2006) |
Medium’s Collapse: Andy Warhol, Robert Gober, Matthew Barney, and the Contemporary Object of Art (director: Lisa Saltzman) | Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Carrie Robbins (Ph.D., 2014) |
Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes (director: Steven Levine) | Curator, Academic Liaison for Art & Artifacts, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï College |
Katherine Rochester (Ph.D., 2018) |
Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental film 1919-1937 (director: Christiane Hertel and Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania) | Curatorial Fellow, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles |
(Ph.D., 2005) |
Modern Primitive Body Art: The Cutting Edge of Queer Performance (director: Steven Levine) | Director, La Salle University Art Museum |
Jennifer Webb (Ph.D., 2006) |
The Making of the Montefeltro: Patronage of the Arts and Architecture during the Reign of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (director: David Cast) | Associate Professor, University of Minnesota-Duluth |
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Alum News
Ben Anderson, History of Art Ph.D. 2012, publishes new book Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art with Yale University Press