Recent PhD Dissertations

 

Name Title of dissertation Advisor
2012-2013
Ayer, M. The Ones that Got Away:  Refugees in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Higbie
2011-2012
Hyatt, A. From Taras to Tarentum:  The evolution of a Greek city in Roman Italy Dyson
Kendall, J. Stealing Aphrodite:  Plundered Art and Politics in the Roman Republic Dyson
2010-2011
Costello, B. An Analysis of the Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus Peña
Duffy, W. Legacies of an Imaginary People:  The Phaeacians after Homer Higbie
Gallimore, S. An Island Economy:  Ierapetra and Crete in the Roman Empire Peña
Notarian, M. Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Latium:  An Archaeological and Social History of Praeneste, Tibur and Tusculum Dyson
Pantou, P. Mycenaean Society Outside the Palaces:  A Study of Late Helladic IIB-IIIB1 Corridor Buildings Watrous
2009-2010
Afonso, L. The Torre de Palma, Sao Cucufate, Pisces and Milreu Villas (Portugal):  Social Dynamics from the First Century to the Fifth Century CE Dyson
2008-2009
Buczek, C. Horatius Auctor:  Ideological Self-Fashioning in the Augustan Age Dyson
Erenstoft, J. Controlling the Sacred Past:  Rome, Pius IX, and Christian Archaeology Dyson
Kopestonsky, T. Kokkinovrysi:  A Classical Shrine to the Nymphs at Corinth Ault
Van Dusen, R. Pentrian Samnites:  A History of Social and Political Change in the Central Apennines Dyson
2007-2008
Cooper, J. Traditions in Profile:  A Chronological Sequence of Western Sicilian Ceramics (7th-6th c. BC) Ault
Dixon, R. An Examination of the Allusions to Isaiah 52: 13-53: 12 in the New Testament Paley
Kershner, S. Self-Fashioning and Horatian Allusion in Statius' Silvae Dugan
2006-2007
Strang, J. The City of Dionysos:  A Social and Historical Study of the Ionian City of Teos Higbie
2005-2006
Banta, J. Imperium cum Finibus: Plutarch's Archaic Rome Woodard
Lemak, J. Pastoralism in the Roman Empire: A Comparative Approach Dyson
Rothfus, M. Social Status and Sartorial Symbols: The Use and Abuse of Clothing in Ancient Rome Dyson
2004-2005
Leonard, J. Roman Cyprus: Harbors, Hinterlands, and Hidden Powers Dyson
McCallum, M. Tiber Navigabilis: The Role of the Central Tiber Valley in the Economy of the City of Rome Peña
Reeves, B. The Feriale Duranum, Roman Military Religion, and Dura-Europos: A Reassessment Dyson
Rubin, L. De Incendiis Urbis Romae: The Fires of Rome in their Urban Context Dyson
2003-2004
Kimball, P. The Shadow of the Future: Eschatology and Ritual in the Early Byzantine City (394-404) Cole
2002-2003
Poudrier, A. Memory and Identity in Herodotus: The Historiographical and Cultural Meaning of Sanctuaries and Dedications in the Histories Cole
2000-2001
Behr, F. Apostrophe, Irony and Death in Lucan's Bellum Civille Malamud
Glazebrook, A. The Use and Abuse of Hertairai:  Female Characterization in Greek Oratory Cole
1999-2000
Roche, T. The New Prophecy and the 'Spiritual Christian' Sect:  Montanism as a Prototypical Example of Christian Sectarianism Dyson
1997-1998
Cofta, D. Mutato Nomine:  The Aesthetic Programme of Horatian Lyric Malamud
Lyons, D. Seneca:  Stoic Therapist in a Narcissistic Court Dyson
1994-1995
Sham, M. Characterization in Petronius' Satyricon Dyson
Share, M. The Urbinas Gr. 35 Scholia on Porphyr's Isagoge and Aristotle's Categories Peradotto