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)