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Graduate Students

Afonso, Lucia

BA institution: University of Michigan
Diploma: University of Oxford
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Stephen Dyson

Artz, James

E-mail address: 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

E-mail address: ayer2@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University of Tennessee
MA institution: University of Tennessee (Anthropology)
Sub-area: Roman History

Interests: Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece, Identity and Empire, Cultural Exchange in the Roman East

Barnett, Miranda

E-Mail Address: mb248@buffalo.edu

BA Institution: University of Oklahoma, the URL is http://www.ou.edu/cas/classics/

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

E-mail address: mbetello@buffalo.edu

BA institution: Universita CaFoscari di Venezia, Italia

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

Advisor: J. Theodore Pena

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

E-mail address: 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

E-mail address: 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

Cefaratti, Rebecca

E-mail address: rjc23@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Sweet Briar College
MA institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Ancient History
Advisor: Susan Cole
Interests: Ancient Cult Practice, Spatial Relationships within and Development of the Ancient City, Epigraphy, Intellectual History

Chapnick, Aaron

E-mail address: 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

Costello, Benjamin

E-mail address: bciv@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University of Colorado
MA institution: University of Arizona
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Theodore Pena

Dewey, Melinda

E-mail address: mjdewey@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Rollins College
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Stephen Dyson

Duffy, Will

E-mail address: wsduffy@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Binghamton University
Sub-area: Language and Literature
Advisor: Carolyn Higbie
Interests: Heroes (Ancient and Modern), Foreshadowing in Greek Literature

Forstall, Christopher

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

Gallimore, Scott

E-mail address: scg6@buffalo.edu
BA: University of Toronto
MA: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Theodore Pena
Interests: Roman economy, pottery studies

Hyatt, Adam

E-mail address: aphyatt@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University of Michigan
MA institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Theodore Pena

Kendall, Jennifer

E-mail address: kendall3@buffalo.edu
BA Institution: University of Arizona
MA Institution: University of Arizona
Sub-area: Ancient History
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: late Roman Republic and early Empire; topography of Rome; Hellenistic and Roman history; Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Lamberto, Katie

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

Muslin, Jennifer

E-mail address: jlmuslin@buffalo.edu
BA institution: Sarah Lawrence College
MA institution: University of Chicago (Divinity/Biblical Studies); University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: J. Theodore Pena

Interests: Etruscan archaeology, religion and trade; Greek religion, archaeology and history; epigraphy; religious syncretism; the cult of Dionysos; maritime archaeology; historiography

Notarian, Matt

E-mail address: notarian@buffalo.edu
BA Institution: University of Delaware
MA Institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Stephen Dyson
Interests: Roman economy, Roman imperialism, Social history, Numismatics, Cultural identity, Roman Italy, Greece and Asia Minor

Pantou, Panagiota

E-mail address: papantou@buffalo.edu
BA: University of Thessaloniki
MA: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Vance Watrous
Interests: Bronze Age Archaeology of the Aegean

Pascatore, Russell

E-mail address: rtp2@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Language and Literature

Poyer, Elizabeth

E-mail address: 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.

Richardi, Jessica

Email: jlrichar@buffalo.edu
BA: Boston University
MA: n/a
Sub-area: Ancient History

Advisor:
Interests: late antique literature, early Christianity, ethnicity in the later Roman empire.

Sobolewski, Scott

E-mail address: 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

E-mail:  njswift@buffalo.edu

Thompson, Gail

E-mail address: gailthompson1@hotmail.com
BS institution: St. Bonaventure University
MA insitution: St. Bonaventure University (Reading Specialist); University at Buffalo, (Classics)
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: Samuel Paley
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

E-mail: 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.

Warford, Erin

E-mail: 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

Vennarucci, Rhodora

E-mail address: rjgrate@buffalo.edu
BA institution: University of Michigan

MA Institution: University at Buffalo
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Advisor: J. Theodore Pena

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

Williams, Joey

E-mail address: jlw53@buffalo.edu
BA Institution:  Hendrix College
MA Institution:  University of Arizona
Sub-area: Mediterranean Archaeology
Interests:  Roman material culture, ancient industry and technology,
Roman and Pre-Roman Iberia, and the archaeology of environmental pollution

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