Dissertations
This is a list of dissertations I have supervised or are in progress and Dissertation Reading Committees on which I have served or serve:
Dissertations supervised and in progress:
Holly Haynes (Narrative Anxiety in Tacitus' 'Histories', PhD Summer 1996)
James Tolf (Patterns of Imagery in Ciceronian Invective, PhD Summer 1999)
Owen Ewald (The Livian Historiographical Tradition, PhD Spring Quarter 1999)
David Rohrbacher (Ammianus Marcellinus and the Imperial Bureaucracy. A Historiographical Study; PhD Spring Quarter 1998)
Pauline Ripat (Prophecy and Policy in Roman Egypt, PhD Spring 2003)
Eric Ross (Herodotus among the Sages: Four Studies on the Intellectual Background of the Histories; Director, PhD Autumn 2007)
Kari Ceaicovschi ((Re) constructing Cato Maior: A Literary Assessment of the Reception of Cato the Elder in the works of Cicero, Livy, and Aulus Gellius, PhD Spring 2008)
Jaime Volker (Caesarian Conflict: portrayals of Julius Caesar in narratives of civil strife, PhD, Spring Quarter 2012)
Alex Kennedy (Leaving Rome: Alienation from and Attachment to the City in Augustan Literature, PhD Spring Quarter 2013)
Morgan Palmer (Inscribing Augustan Personae: Epigraphic Conventions and Memory Across Genres, PhD Spring Quarter 2014)
Brandon Jones (The Sophistic Roman: Education and Status in Quintilian, Tacitus and Pliny, PhD Spring 2015)
Dissertation Reading Committees (completed and in progress):
Melvin Thomas (PhD Fall '91)
Tyler Lansford (PhD Spr. '91)
Brad Cook (PhD Spring 1996)
Leslie Shumka (Univ. of Victoria, Classics) (Designing Women: Studies in the Representation of Femininity in Roman Society, defended 12/4/00)
Shawn Ross (History) Social Groups in Homer, Hesiod, and Archilochos (PhD Summer 2001)
Ethan Adams (The Religion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses) (PhD Winter 2003)
Christina Vester (Polis and Reproduction: The Role of the Mother in Euripides and Menander) [replaced Winter Qtr. 2003]
Marco Zangari (Cicero Fabricator) (PhD Spring 2005)
John Aveline (Univ. of Calgary, Classics) (Tacitus’ Portrayal of Claudius) (PhD, Autumn 2006)
Alex Dressler (Calling the Soul to Syllables: Writing and Philosophy in Seneca’s Moral Epistles) (PhD, Summer 2009)
Mark Nugent (Figures of Speech. Art in the Literature of the High Roman Empire (50-250 CE, PhD Winter 2010)
Ethan Spanier (History) (The Good Farmer in Ancient Rome: War, Agriculture and the Elite from the Republic to Early Empire) (PhD, Spring 2010)
Richard Fernando Buxton (A Model of Conflict: the Metonymic Function of Stasis in Xenophon’s Hellenica) (PhD, Autumn Quarter 2010)
Joel S. Ward (Classics, NYU) (Watching History Unfold: The Uses of Viewing in Cassius Dio, Herodian and the Historia Augusta) (PhD 2011)
Ashli Baker, Apuleius’ Political Animal: A Socio-Cultural Reading of Identity in the Metamorphoses, (PhD, Spring Quarter 2011)
Jason Shattuck (History, PhD Spring Quarter 2013)
Mira Green (History) (PhD Winter Quarter 2015)
Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (PhD Spring Quarter 2014)
Bridget Langley (Written on Running Water: Ovidian Poetics in the Roman Waterscape) (PhD Spring Quarter 2016)
Laura Zientek (The Landscape of Civil War: Geography, Ecphrasis, and Philosophy in Lucan’s Bellum Civile) (PhD Spring Quarter 2014)
Joshua Hartman (Allusion and Cultural Memory in Late Antiquity: Ausonius, Prudentius, and Claudian) (PhD Summer Quarter 2016)
Alberto Requejo (Columella: A Formal Analysis) (PhD Autumn Quarter 2017)
Adriana Vazquez (Vates and Initiates: Augustan Poetic Manipulation of Greek Mystery Cult) (PhD Summer Quarter 2017
Emma Brobeck (Craftsmen, Identity, and Status in the Literature of Flavian Rome) (PhD Summer Quarter 2021)