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MA Students - 1st Year

Odessa Cadieux-Rey

Degree: BA Classical Studies, University of British Columbia, 2010

Area Interests: Women in antiquity, especially Archaic and Classical Greece; ancient textiles;the representation of the female body in classical art;socio-cultural history of Greece and Rome; Homer; culture contact and colonisation; Achaemenid Persia and Zoroastrianism.

TA Assignments: CS 3901E: Archaeology of the Roman Empire

Contact Information: ocadieux@uwo.ca

Mark Walley

Degree: Honours BA in Liberal Arts, Bishops University, 2009

Area Interests: Greek and Roman magic, especially Athenian magic from the Classical period; Greek, Roman, and Egyptian history; Classical mythology; Greek and Roman Religious rituals and use of sacred space; Archaeology; The Classical Tradition, specifically the reuse and reinvention of ancient structures.

TA Assignments: CS1000-002 Classical Civilization

Contact Information: mwalley@uwo.ca



 

MA Students - 2nd 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: CS1000-002 Classical Civilization

Contact Information: fdearmo@uwo.ca

Susan Grouchy

Degree: BA in Classics, Brock University, 2011

Area Interests: Archaeology; Mythology; Ancient religious studies; Greek and Roman cults; the Roman household gods; Religious iconography

TA Assignments: CS 2800A Greek and Latin Elements in English, CS 2904B Alexander the Great

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: CS2903A&B Ancient Greek Science

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: CS2902A Ancient Cities, CS2907B Daily life in Ancient Rome

Contact Information: kpettig@uwo.ca






PhD Students 1st year

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: CS1000-001 Classical Civilization

Contact Information: hthomso8@uwo.ca

Tim Wright

Degree:

Area Interests:

External Scholarship awards:

TA Assignment: CS1000-001 Classical Civilization

Contact Information: twrigh5@uwo.ca






PhD Students - 2nd 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: CS2200 Classical Mythology

Contact Information: adawso22@uwo.ca

Dwayne Meisner

Degrees: Honors BA in History, University of Regina, 2008, MA in History, University of Regina, 2010, MA in Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, 2011

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

TA Assignment: CS 2300, Sport and Recreation in the Ancient World

Contact Information: dmeisner@uwo.ca

Jonathan Vickers

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

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

TA Assignment: CS2700B Technology and Engineering in the Ancient World, CS2800B Greek and Latin Elements in English

Contact Information: jvicker6@uwo.ca






PhD Students - 3rd 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: CS2906A Greek and Roman Medicine

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: CS3100E Greek and Roman Drama

Contact Information: lmayes@uwo.ca







PhD Students - 4th 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: CS2905A&B Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome

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:

Contact Information:
pmille26@uwo.ca;

 

 


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