Alumnae/i

The alumnae/i listed below represent some of the many career paths open to graduates of the three departments in the Graduate Group. For complete lists of alumnae/i please see the webpages of the respective departments.

Archaeology

Name Dissertation Current Position
Johanna Best
(Ph.D., 2015)
Religion of the Roadways: Roadside Sacred Spaces in Attica (director: A.A. Donohue) Program Manager for Scholarly and Public Engagement, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow in the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative

(Ph.D., 2009)
hoi peri to hieron: A Study of Sacerdotal Housing at Ancient Greek Sanctuaries (director: Stella Miller-Collett) Librarian, Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks

(Ph.D., 2007)
Socio-Economic Studies in the Territory of Antioch in the High Roman Empire (director: Russell Scott) Assistant Professor, Florida State University

(Ph.D., 2012)
A Walk through the Past: Toward a Study of Archaeological Museums in Italy, Greece, and Israel (director: A.A. Donohue)  Collections Development Librarian, Blegen Library, American School of Classical Studies, Athens

​(Ph.D., 2009)
Roman Wall Painting from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece: A Contextual Study (director: Stella Miller-Collett) Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities

(Ph.D., 2017)
Decoding Meaning in Athenian Vase-Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods: A Study of Expression of Communication and Targeted Audiences (director: Astrid Lindenlauf) Schuch-Friend of Classics Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics and Digital Humanities, San Diego State University
Laura Surtees
(Ph.D., 2012)
On the Surface of a Thessalian City: The Urban Survey of Kastro Kallithea (directors: Astrid Lindenlauf and James C. Wright) Research and Instruction Librarian, Coordinator of Rhys Carpenter Library, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æÓ°Òô

(Ph.D., 2011)   
The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period (director: James C. Wright)
Associate Professor of History, Interim Provost & Dean of the Faculty,  Coe College

Classics

Name Dissertation Current Position
Lee Burnett
(Ph.D., 2018)
Saturnalicia Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persius, and Petronius (director: Catherine Conybeare) Instructor, Episcopal Academy

(A.B.D., 2015)
The Neo-Latin Supplements to Vergil's Aeneid, 1400-1700 (director: Annette M. Baertschi)
Instructor of Greek and Latin and Chair of Humanities Department,Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary

(Ph.D., 2009)
Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?: The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in Paschale carmen (director: Catherine Conybeare) Associate Professor of Classics, Chairman of Collegiate Scholars Program, Hillsdale College

​(Ph.D., 2005)
Ethnicity and empire: Vergilian imitation in Silius Italicus' 'Punica' (director: Russell Scott) Instructor III, Carleton University
Charlie Kuper
(Ph.D., 2017)
The Latin Dialogue from Minucius Felix to Gregory the Great (director: Catherine Conybeare) Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bavarian Academy, Munich

​(Ph.D., 2014)
Roman Nostalgia: Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature (director: Catherine Conybeare) Assistant Professor of Instruction in Classics, Temple University

​(Ph.D., 2017)
Recontextualizing Military Structures along the Stanegate and Hadrian's Wall Utilizing Aerial Photography and GIS Mapping (director: Russell Scott) Co-founder & CEO, Logoi Learning Systems
Abbe Walker
(Ph.D., 2017)
Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: Virginity and Death in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome (directors: Catherine Conybeare and Radcliffe Edmonds) Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, Connecticut College

History of Art

Name Dissertation Current Position

(Ph.D., 2012)
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900 (director: Dale Kinney) Associate Professor, Department of History of Art & Visual Studies, Cornell University
Maeve Doyle
(Ph.D., 2015)
The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230-1320 (director: Dale Kinney) Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University

(Ph.D., 2013)
Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay (director: Lisa Saltzman) Visiting Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges

(Ph.D., 2007)
Rembrandt's Spaces (director: Christiane Hertel) Associate Curator of European Painting, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

​(Ph.D., 2014)
Cinema at the Crossroads: Bruce Conner's Atomic Sublime, 1958-2008 (director: Homay King)  at the Center for Western Civilization, Policy, and Thought and in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder

(Ph.D., 2006)
Medium’s Collapse: Andy Warhol, Robert Gober, Matthew Barney, and the Contemporary Object of Art (director: Lisa Saltzman) Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carrie Robbins
(Ph.D., 2014) 
Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes (director: Steven Levine) Curator, Academic Liaison for Art & Artifacts, Bryn Mawr College
Katherine Rochester
(Ph.D., 2018)
Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental film 1919-1937 (director: Christiane Hertel and Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania) Curatorial Fellow, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

(Ph.D., 2005)
Modern Primitive Body Art: The Cutting Edge of Queer Performance (director: Steven Levine) Director, La Salle University Art Museum
Jennifer Webb
(Ph.D., 2006)
The Making of the Montefeltro: Patronage of the Arts and Architecture during the Reign of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (director: David Cast) Associate Professor, University of Minnesota-Duluth

Alum News

Ben Anderson, History of Art Ph.D. 2012, publishes new book Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art with Yale University Press