Graduate Students
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Christopher Adams, Classics graduate student
BA, Vassar College; MA, UC Berkeley
chadams@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin Literature; Roman History; Erotic Elegy and Gender
Samantha Alford, Classical Archaeology graduate student
B.A. 2012 University of California, Berkeley
salford@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Bronze Age Aegean, Cult and Ritual
Ian Anderson, Classics graduate student
BA Classics and Philosophy, Columbia, 2009; MA Greek, Berkeley, 2012
reander@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Justin Boner, Classics graduate student
B.A. (Classics) New College of Florida, 2009; M.A. (Classics) U.C. Berkeley, 2012.
justin.boner@berkeley.edu
7226 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Archaic Greek Cultural History; Greek Literature (Homeric Hymns, Lyric, Herodotus); Greek Epigraphy; Anthropology of Language; French Theory.
Aaron Brown, Classical Archaeology Graduate Student
B.A. (Classical Archaeology & Latin) Florida State University, 2013
adbrown@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Roman and Italic art, archaeology, and visual culture
Christopher Churchill, Classics graduate student
BA Wesleyan University (2000); MA UCB (2006)
cchurch@socrates.berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature (especially Augustan poetry, as well as Latin epic more broadly); Roman history and historiography
Stefani Dixon, Classics graduate student
B.A. Classics, CUNY Brooklyn (2010), M.A. Latin, UC Berkeley (2012).
s.dixon@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin Elegy, Roman Satire, Gender/Sexuality, Postcolonial reception of the Classics in Caribbean and Latin American literature, pedagogy and diversity in contemporary Classical education.
Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Classics graduate student
B.A. (Greek, Latin, Literary Arts) Brown University, M.Phil. (Greek and Latin) Oxford
sasha.eccleston@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature (esp. Ovid, Apuleius, and Petronius), The Ancient Novel and the Second Sophistic, Literary Theory, Popular Culture and the Classics, Translation of the Classics, Contemporary Poetry
Daniel Esses, Classics graduate student
B. A. Vassar College (2009); M.A. UC Berkeley (2012)
daesses@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Ancient philosophy, especially Plato; cultural and intellectual history; literature as philosophy/ philosophy as literature; rhetoric, especially on the varieties of irony, ambiguity and theorizing of genre(s).
Seth Estrin, Classical Archaeology graduate Student
B.A. (Classics and Art History) University of Toronto, 2008. MSt (Classical Archaeology) Merton College, Oxford, 2009. MA (Classical Archaeology), UC Berkeley, 2011.
sestrin@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek and Roman art, archaeology, and visual culture (with special focus on Archaic and Classical Greece). Minoan wall painting; emotion and agency in Greek art; theories of style and naturalism; text and art (epigrams, ekphrasis); 18th/19th c. reception.
Marilyn Evans, Classical Archaeology graduate student
B.A. Hons. in Classics and Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2003), M.A. in Classics, University of Georgia (2006)
Special interests: Greek and Roman art and archaeology; early Rome, especially archaic Rome and Latium; death and burial in Roman antiquity; urbanization; Roman history and historiography; Roman North Africa.
Lynn Gallogly, Classics graduate student
B.A. Wellesley College, 2012
lynn617@berkeley.edu
Marissa Henry, Classics Graduate Student
Molly Horne, Classics graduate student
BA Greek and Latin, UCLA, 2012
mdhorne@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin prose literature, especially historiography
Morgan E. Hunter, Classics graduate student
BA (Latin and Greek), Santa Clara University, 2011
mehunter@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Tragedy, comparative philology, Greek philosophy, Late Antiquity
Morgan King, Classics graduate student
B.A. Carleton College 2011
mvking@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Latin literature; reception studies; Late Antiquity
Rachel Lesser (rlesser), Classics graduate student
B.A. Classics, Columbia (2006); B.A. Classics and English, Oxford (2008), M.A. Classics, UC Berkeley (2009)
rlesser@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek and Latin poetry, erotics, Victorian and Modernist English literature, reception studies
Virginia Lewis, Classics graduate student
BA University of Pennsylvania 2004; MA University of Georgia 2007
vlewis@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Pindar, archaic Greek poetry, Homer and the epic tradition, Greek tragedy, myth and religion
Mark McClay, Classics graduate student
B.A. St. John's College (2009), Post-Baccalaureate UCLA (2009-2010)
mfmcclay@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: Greek drama, Greek religion; ancient scholarship, history of classical scholarship
Derin McLeod, Classics graduate student
BA Yale University (2008); MPhil Cambridge University (2009); MA UC Berkeley (2010)
derin.mcleod@berkeley.edu
359A Dwinelle Hall
Kevin Moch, Classics graduate student
A.B. Princeton University 2010
Special interests: Roman literature and culture; the epic tradition; elegy; intertextuality; Indo-European linguistics; etymology
Sarah Olsen, Classics graduate student
BA (Classics and Comparative Literature) Wellesley College, 2008; MA (Classics) UC Berkeley, 2010
solsen@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek literature (esp. archaic poetry, drama, and the ancient novel), dance and performance, gender and sexuality
Anna Pisarello, Classics graduate student
BA, University of Chicago, 2004; MA, UC Berkeley, 2008
acpisarello@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature and culture; Roman historiography; narratology
Rachel Preminger, Classics graduate student
BA, Reed College 2006; MA UC Berkeley, 2009.
preminger@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Ancient Historiography, Roman Literature and Culture, Pedagogy.
Joel M. Street, PhD candidate
B.A., DePauw '07; M.A., Berkeley '09
joel@berkeley.edu
7227 Dwinelle Hall
Special interests: genre and intertextuality; Greek literature and identity under Rome; spatial, temporal and kinetic metaphors; Greek and Latin pedagogy
Kelsey Turbeville, Classics graduate student
B.A. Wellesley College (2009)
KTurbeville@berkeley.edu
Christopher Waldo, Classics graduate student
BA (Greek and Latin) University of Vermont, 2011
cwaldo@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Pindar, Archaic Greek Poetry, Indo-European Linguistics
Andrew Wein, Classics Graduate Student
Naomi Weiss, Classics graduate student
BA (Hons) Classics, University of Oxford, Somerville College (2006); MSt, University of Oxford, New College (2007); MA, UC Berkeley (2009)
naomi.weiss@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Greek tragedy, particularly Euripides; ancient music and dance; archaic Greek poetry; ancient ethnography
Elizabeth Wueste, Classical Archaeology graduate student
B.A. UCLA, Classical Civilizations, 2007; M.A. UC Berkeley, Classical Archaeology, 2009
ewueste@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Roman archaeology and art history, Late Antique studies, honorific monuments, portraiture
Jessica Yao, Classics graduate student
A.B. Princeton University (2012)
jessica.yao@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Latin literature, especially in its relationship to the Greek tradition and the adaptation of Greek models to Roman contexts; literary history; intertextuality and inter-poetic dynamics
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Classics graduate student
A.B. Harvard University (2010); M.A. U.C. Berkeley (2011)
michael.zellmann-rohrer@berkeley.edu
Special interests: Paleography, codicology, epigraphy, papyrology, Byzantine Greek and Medieval Latin literature
