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MA Students - 2nd 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:

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:

Contact Information: mwalley@uwo.ca



 

PhD Students - 1st Year

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:

Contact Information: kpettig@uwo.ca






PhD Students 2nd 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:

Contact Information: hthomso8@uwo.ca

Tim Wright

Degree:

Area Interests:

External Scholarship awards:

TA Assignment:

Contact Information: twrigh5@uwo.ca






PhD Students - 3rd 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:

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: Instructor LA1000-001. Click Here to view the course outline

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:

Contact Information: jvicker6@uwo.ca






PhD Students - 4th 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 - 5th 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:

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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