..GRADUATE

Current Graduate Students

 

 

MA Students - 1st Year

 

Frank D'Earmo

Degree: Honours BA Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, 2011

Area Interests: Greek and Latin Epic, Historicity in the Iliad, Roman Numismatic Propaganda, Laconic Wit, Military History, Mythology, Ethnography (Esp. Germanic Tribes, Italic Peoples), Ancient Technology, Ancient Etymology of Place Names, the Preservation of Texts in Antiquity.

TA Assignments: CS 1000-001 (Fall 2011), CS 2200 (Winter 2012)

Contact Information:fdearmo@uwo.ca

Susan Grouchy

Degree: BA in Classics, Brock University, 2011

Area Interests: Ancient religious studies specifically cults and the Roman domestic Lares

TA Assignments: CS 2800

Contact Information:
sgrouchy@uwo.ca

Ben Moser

Degree: Honours BA in Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2011

Area Interests: Military and Political History of the late-Roman Republic and early-Roman Empire, Athenian Empire and Hellenistic Kingdoms, Roman Provincial and Foreign Policy

TA Assignments: Classics 2200 (Fall)/
CS 1000-001 (Winter)

Contact Information:
bmoser@uwo.ca

Kaitlyn Pettigrew

Degree: Honours BA in Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Area Interests: Roman historiography, specifically from the Augustan Age and early Imperial period; ancient society and culture; Greek and Roman myth

TA Assignments: CS1000-001

Contact Information: kpettig@uwo.ca

 

 

MA Students 2nd Year

 

John Aniol

Degree: Honors BA in Classical Studies,
Univ. of Western Ontario, 2010

Area Interests: The Platonic Corpus in
relation to the Greek literary tradition;
the genre of History (esp. Thucydides), 
and conception of historical fact in
antiquity; literary tropes and
their transmission; political administration;
economics Cicero; 

TA Assignments:

Contact Information: janiol@uwo.ca

Aron Bojti

Degree: Honors BA in Classical Studies,
Univ. of Toronto, 2010

Area Interests: Ancient philosophy
(esp greek), languages, literature

External Scholarship awards: SSHRC
CGS 2010

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:  abojti@uwo.ca

Jesse Courtland

Degree: Honors BA in Classical Studies,
Univ. of Windsor, 2010

Area Interests: Archaic and
Classical Greek Literature, History,
and Historiography, especially
Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus,
and Plato; Roman Republican Literature, History, and Historiography, especially Cicero, Caesar, and Livy; Greek and
Latin language

TA Assignment:

Contact Information: jcourtla@uwo.ca

Joseph Davis

Degree: Honors BA in Classical Studies,
Univ. of Western Ontario, 2010

Area Interests: Roman Historiograpy
(particularly Ancient Ethnography),
Latin Poetry, and the Ancient Novel

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:
jdavis44@uwo.ca

Simeon Ehrlich

Degree: Honors BA in Classical Studies,
Univ. of Western Ontario, 2010

Area Interests: Classical archaeology
and architecture; ancient science,
technology, and mathematics;
Judaism in Classical antiquity

External Scholarship awards: SSHRC
CGS 2010

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:
sehrlich@uwo.ca

Katy Kennedy

Degree: Honors BA in Classical
Studies, Laurentian University, 2010

Area Interests: Greek and Roman
history (society and culture); ancient sport
and leisure; comparative mythology;
Latin epigraphy

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:
kkenne49@uwo.ca

Andrew Mills

Degree:Post Baccalaureate in Classical
Studies, Univ. of California, 2010

Area Interests: Greek and Latin
Language, Roman and Greek Religion,
Greek and Roman myth, Roman society
and culture

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:
amills23@uwo.ca

Heather Thomson

Degree: Advanced BA in Classics, University of Manitoba, 2010

Area Interests: Roman social history and material culture; children and childhood in antiquity; gender in ancient Greece and Rome

External Scholarship awards:
SSHRC CGS 2011

TA Assignment: Fall 2011 - CS 3300F; Winter 2012 - CS 2906B

Contact Information:
hthomso8@uwo.ca

 

 

PhD Students - 1st Year

 

Alexandra Dawson

Degrees: Honors BA in Classical Studies, Brock University, 2008, MA in Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario 2010

Area Interests: Greek tragedy, specifically Euripides; sociopolitical allusions in Greek literature; Ancient Greek language, syntax and style

TA Assignment: Fall Semester - CS 3300F Greek and Roman Sexuality; Winter Semester -
CS 2700B Technology and Engineering in the Ancient World

Contact Information:
adawso22@uwo.ca

Dwayne Meisner

Degrees: Honors BA in History, Univ. of Regina, 2008, MA in History, Univ. of Regina, 2010

Area Interests: Greek and Roman myth and ritual; mystery cults; ritual theory; cultural history; historiography; Roman legal history; Greek and Roman history

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:
dmeisner@uwo.ca

Jonathan Vickers

Degree: Honors BA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Manitoba, 2009, MA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Western, 2011

Area Interests: Ancient acrobatics and tumbling; Greek and Roman sport; Greek comedy; Dramatic performance

TA Assignment: Fall 2011 - CS 2200, Winter 2012 - CS3903G

Contact Information:
jvicker6@uwo.ca

 

 

PhD Students - 2nd Year

 

Mary Deminion

Degrees: Honors BA in Greek and Roman Studies, Univ. of Victoria, 2007, MA in Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, 2010

Area Interests: Ancient law, Roman History, women in antiquity, morality, and spectacle.

TA Assignment:

Contact Information:
mdeminio@uwo.ca

Lauren Mayes

Degrees: Honors BA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Victoria, 2008, MA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Victoria, 2010

Area Interests: Greek literature and the construction of gender, Greek tragedy, women in Greek society, Classics in popular culture

TA Assignment:

Contact Information: lmayes@uwo.ca

 


PhD Students - 3rd Year

James Kruck

Degrees: Honors BA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Manitoba, 2005, MA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Manitoba, 2009

Area Interests: Roman translation theory; Roman philosophy; Roman education; Stoicism

TA Assignment: Instructor Latin 1000-003

Contact Information: jkruck@uwo.ca

Peter Miller

Degrees: Honors BA in Classical Studies, Univ. of Toronto, 2007, MA in Greek and Roman Studies, Univ. of Victoria, 2009

Area Interest: Greek lyric and epigram; genre and memorial in Greek poetry; gender and sexuality in Greek and Latin literature

External Scholarship Awards: SSRHC Doctoral Fellowship (2011-2013)

TA Assignment: Instructor Greek 2000

Contact Information:

pmille26@uwo.ca; LAH 3220

 

 

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