Graduate Students

 

Artz, James

Email: artz@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  University of Michigan

MA Institution:  Tufts University

Sub-area:  Mediterranean Archaeology

Advisor:  Brad Ault

Interests:  Greek domestic architecture, ancient agriculture, social and economic history, commerce and trade, non-elite and marginal population groups, epigraphy, historiography.

Ayer, Meagan

Email: ayer2@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University of Tennessee
MA institution: University of Tennessee (Anthropology)
Sub-area:  Greek History

Interests: Refugees in the Ancient World, Identity and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece, Early Roman Contact in Hellenistic Greece


Barnett, Miranda

Email: mb248@buffalo.edu

BA Institution: University of Oklahoma

MA Institution: N/A

Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology

Interests: Sepulchral Art and Architecture, Intercultural Relations, Trade, Early Roman and Italian Archaeology, Sicilian Archaeology, the Etruscans, Stratigraphical Studies, the Greeks in Italy, History of Archaeology, Topography of Rome, Geology of Italy, Religious and Cult Practices, Pottery Studies, Disease in Italy, Bronze Age Greece, Advancing Archaeological Science in Classical Archaeology

Betello, Massimo

Email: mbetello@buffalo.edu

BA institution: Universita CaFoscari di Venezia, Italia

MA institution: Universita CaFoscari di Venezia, Italia
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology

Advisor: Stephen Dyson

Interests: Roman Archaeology, Roman Architecture, the Roman city of Pompeii, GIS in Archaeology, Comparative studies of Roman House Development, Analisys of Roman assemblages.  I am specifically focused on the city of Pompei, of which I studied the development of house VI,7,3 for my MA dissertation in Italia. I have also a strong interest in environmental problems.

Buell, D. Matthew

Email: dmbuell@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Brock University
MA institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Brad Ault and Vance Watrous

Interests:  The Prehistory of the Aegean and Near East, Bronze Age trade and interaction, regionalism, survey archaeology, archaeological GIS, household archaeology, archaeological history, theory and methodology, and the modern history of Greece and Cyprus.

Burns, Krishni

Email: ksburns@buffalo.edu

BA institution: Oberlin College

Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology

Interests: Ancient Religion, Cult practices, Sex and Gender in the Ancient World, Art in the Ancient World

Chapnick, Aaron

Email: aaroncha@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Florida State University
Sub-area: Roman Archaeology
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Dyson

Interests: architecture, spatial layout/analysis, urbanism, demographics, economy, survey, GIS

Dzara, Gregory

E-mail:  gdzara@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Arizona State University

MA Institution:  University of Arizona

Sub-area:  Ancient History

Interests:  Roman Republic, Early Roman Empire, Roman Provinces, Social History, Military History, Ancient Comedy, Theory of Comedy

Earls, Jason

Email:  jasonear@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  University of Oklahoma

Sub area:  Mediterranean Archaeology

Interests:  Imperial Rome, numismatics, Roman frontiers, military and provincial administration

Forstall, Christopher

Email:  forstall@buffalo.edu

BA institution: Lehigh University
Sub-area: Language and Literature

Advisor:  Roger Woodard

Interests:  Greek and Latin poetry, oral-formulaic composition, intertextuality, computational stylometrics, digital humanities

http://dhibwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/User:Cwf2

Gawley, James

Email:  jamesgaw@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  University of Florida

MA Institution:  NYU

Sub-area:  Language & Literature

Advisor:  Roger Woodard

Interests:  historical linguistics, comparative reconstruction, stylometrics, and computational linguistics

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jamesgaw/

Grable, Kali

Email:  kaligrab@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  University of Texas at Austin

MA Institution:  Florida State University

Sub-Area:  Mediterranean Archaeology

Advisor:  Philip Kiernan

Interests: Roman economy, trade and commerce; imperialism; Western provinces

Hughes, Ryan

Email:  ryanedwa@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

MA Institution:  Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Canada

Sub-Area:  Mediterranean Archaeology

Interests:  Ancient economy, archaeology of the western Roman Provinces, trade and distribution, Amphora Studies, olive oil industry, Monte Testaccio and underwater archaeology

Jacobson, Sarah

Email:  slj25@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Hendrix College

MA Institution:  University of Arizona

Sub-area:  Language and Literature

Advisor:  John Dugan

Interests:  Late Republican literature, Literary Theory, Classical Tradition in Spanish poetry

Kendall, Jennifer

Email: kendall3@buffalo.edu
BA Institution: University of Arizona
MA Institution: University of Arizona
Sub-area: Ancient History
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests:Roman Republic, Julio-Claudians, Roman Historians and Historiography   

Krantz, Jennifer

Email:  jkrantz2@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Carleton College

MA Institution: Cambridge University

Sub-area:  Classical Linguistics

Advisor:  Roger Woodard

Interests:  Mainly linguistic, ranging from Greek Dialects to Late Latin case loss, including comparative and historical linguistics.  I am also interested in intertextuality and am working with the Tesserae Project.

Lamberto, Katie

Email: lamberto@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Holy Cross
Sub-area: Language and Literature

Lenner, Scott

Email:  scottlen@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Concordia College

Sub-area:  Greek History

Interests:  Warfare in the Classical period, experience of combat, and connection of historical combat to Epic ideals, social climate between Greeks and non-Greeks.

McGlin, Michael

Email: mmcglin@buffalo.edu

BA Institution: College of the Holy Cross

Sub-area: Ancient History

Interests: Archaic and Classical Greece, late Roman Republic, Hellenistic Anatolia, ancient seafaring, geography, and underwater archaeology

Platts, Abigail

Email:  amplatts@buffalo.edu

Poyer, Elizabeth

Email: espoyer@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Cornell College (theater), University of Iowa (Classics)
Sub-area: Ancient History
Advisor: Carolyn Higbie
Interests: The history of ancient medicine and disease, especially epidemics; ancient magic; Greek religion; Sophocles; piracy in the ancient Mediterranean; history of textile arts. I also knit a lot, brew my own beer and dream of a life perpetually filled with cats.

Radloff, Lana

Email:  lanajean@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  University of Alberta

MA Institution:  Brock University

Sub area:  Mediterranean Archaeology

Advisor: Brad Ault

Interests:  Greek Archaeology in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, landscape archaeology, underwater archaeology, the link between built structures in underwater and terrestrial landscapes, harbours, GIS, ethics and the utility of unprovenienced artefacts, domestic architecture, city planning, and ideology demonstrated through the use of space.

Richardi, Jessica

Email: jlrichar@buffalo.edu
BA: Boston University
Sub-area: Ancient History

Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: History and literature of late antiquity, the late Roman army in the western provinces, Roman historiography, early Christianity, ethnicity and cross-cultural influence

Roth, Kevin

Email: kevinrot@buffalo.edu   

BA institution: Michigan State University ('05, history and international relations)

MA institution: University of Georgia ('10, Classics)

Sub-area: Language and literature

Interests: Romance linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, Roman comedy, satire, late Republican Roman history, Medieval Latin

Salvo, Davide

Email:  davidesa@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia

MA Institution:  Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia

Sub-area:  Roman History

Interests:  Tacitus, Julio-Claudians, Parthians, Latin Epigraphy, Roman Sicily

Skelley, Sarah

Email: sarahske@buffalo.edu

BA Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Sub-area: Language and Literature

Interests: Indo-European linguistics, Near Eastern linguistics, Bronze Age archaeology, particularly in examining the relationship between Bronze Age civilizations through the language and literature of that and later periods

Slonsky, Kristin

Email:  kmslonsk@buffalo.edu

BA Institution:  Dalhousie University, Canada

MA Institution:  Dalhousie University, Canada

Sub-area:  Roman History

Interests:  cross-cultural influence between Romans and every flavor of barbarian, the susceptibility of the Greco-Roman border to hostile invasion, and Latin pedagogy

Sobolewski, Scott

Email: ss348@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Bucknell University
MA institution: University of Maryland
Sub-area: Language and Literature
Advisor: Neil Coffee
Interests: Intertextuality, Vergilian Studies, Latin Lyric Poetry, Pastoral Poetry

Swift, Nicholas

Email:  njswift@buffalo.edu

Advisor: Roger Woodard
Interests: Archaic Greece; Homer and Pindar; Greek intellectual history; Alexandrian scholarship

Teed, Michael S.


Email: msteed@buffalo.edu
BA Institution: University of Connecticut
MA Institution: Durham University
Sub-Area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Interests: Landscape Archaeology, Pre-Roman Italy, Republican Rome, Roman Economy

Thompson, Gail

Email: gailthompson1@hotmail.com
BS institution: St. Bonaventure University
MA insitution: St. Bonaventure University (Reading Specialist); University at Buffalo, (Classics)
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Vance Watrous
Interests: (1)comparative material culture associated with religions and religious practices of Bronze Age populations in the regions of Mesopotamia, the Levant, Asia Minor, the Greek mainland and the Mediterranean islands.
(2) culture of pre-Clovis and Paleo-Americans in the region of North America.

Tibbitts, Theodore

Email: tdtibbit@buffalo.edu
BA Institution: Brandeis University
Sub-Area: Roman Archaeology
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: Roman daily life, with a focus on what can be seen of Roman diet and food production in the archaeological record.

Vennarucci, Rhodora

Email: rjgrate@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University of Michigan

MA Institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Stephen Dyson

Interests: The Roman Economy: industry, production, and marketing; the Roman Textile Industry: textile manufacturing, trade, and retail; Ancient Technology

Warford, Erin

Email: erinwarf@buffalo.edu

BA institution: Knox College

Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology

Advisor: Dr. Stephen Dyson

Interests: Roman archaeology and history, especially earliest Rome through the early Imperial period, Roman religion and mythology, ancient maps, GIS and survey

Williams, Joey

Email: jlw53@buffalo.edu
BA Institution:  Hendrix College
MA Institution:  University of Arizona
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology

Advisor:  Brad Ault

Interests:  Roman material culture, ancient industry and technology,
Roman and Pre-Roman Iberia, and the archaeology of environmental pollution