Current Graduate Students
John Anderson
Assistant Instructor
johnanderson@utexas.edu |
WAG 111
Education: MPhil, University of Cambridge
Interests: Ancient Philosophy; Greek Comedy; Critical Theory
Hayley Barnett
Assistant Instructor
hayleybarnett@utexas.edu |
WAG 11
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: the archaeology and history of Sicily, ancient coinage, Roman colonialism and imperialism, culture in the Roman provinces, ancient and modern foodways, and classical reception.
Erin Brantmayer
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Brandeis University
Interests: Greek Bronze Age archaeology, Greek religion, digital archaeology, GIS, spatial/landscape archaeology, archaeological theory and methodology
Javal Coleman
Graduate student
Interests: Ancient Slavery, Gender and Sexuality, Ancient Law, The Second Sophistic, Ancient Biography (Suetonius, Plutarch).
William Farris
Assistant Instructor
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius, Vergil, Lucan; epic poetry; intertextuality; narratology
Grace Gibson
Assistant Instructor
gdgibson@utexas.edu |
WAG
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Pompeii and archaeology on the Bay of Naples; ancient graffiti; domestic and gendered space; digital archaeology; Roman bathing; Roman masculinity; ancient healthcare and gynecology; accessibility in Classics
Katherine Handloser
Graduate student
khandloser@utexas.edu |
WAG 121
Interests: primarily Latin poetry (Vergil in particular), epic and tragedy, as well as comparative literature, mythology, and reception studies.
Rebecca Kahane
Assistant Instructor
bkahane@utexas.edu |
WAG 215
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Latin poetry of the late Roman Republic and early Empire, poetry and politics
Nathaniel Katz
Assistant Instructor
nsk@utexas.edu |
WAG 215
Interests: Roman history (especially the imperial succession) and numismatics
Amber Kearns
Graduate student
Interests: Plague studies, ancient medicine and gynecology, bioarchaeology, Roman sacred spaces, reuse of domestic spaces
Kevin Lee
Assistant Instructor
kevin.s.lee@utexas.edu |
(860) 861-8817 |
WAG 111
Education: M.A., University of British Columbia
Interests: Ancient cities, Comparative urbanism, State formation, Samnium and southern Italy, the Polis through the ages, Landscape archaeology, Greek and Roman architecture, Late Antiquity and the medieval ("Byzantine") era of the Roman Empire, Christian history and theology, philosophy (Aristotelian-Thomistic, Stoic), Great Books
Caolán Mac An Aircinn
Graduate student
cpm2245@utexas.edu |
WAG 111
Interests: Epic poetry, magic in the ancient world, Ireland and the Classics
Colin MacCormack
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Hellenistic and Roman Imperial poetry, intersections of poetic and technical traditions, animal studies and posthumanism, linguistics, mythology, magic and folklore
Samantha Meyer
Assistant Instructor
Interests: Roman archaeology; GIS and theories of space/place; environmental archaeology, especially Roman garden spaces and water use; archaeology of religion and sacred space; sustainability and inclusion in archaeological practices
Michele Mitrovich
Graduate student
Education: Second-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Minoan iconography, Aegean-Near Eastern interconnections, Aegean religion, animal iconography, human body iconography in the Aegean and the Mediterranean
Madeline Monk
Assistant Instructor
madelinemonk@utexas.edu |
7033982979 |
WAG 7
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Late Antiquity, Latin epic, Latin panegyric, Claudian
Thomas O. Rover
Assistant Instructor
thomasrover@utexas.edu |
WAG 014C
Interests: Greek arms and armor; Greek colonialism; experimental archaeology
Christy Schirmer
Assistant Instructor
Education: M.A., San Francisco State University
Interests: Greek and Roman archaeology; ancient economy; ancient industries; food production
William Wasta Werner
Graduate student
Education: BA in History, University of Richmond
Interests: Roman epic as history (esp. Lucan); reception of Classics in the antebellum and postbellum American South
David Welch
Assistant Instructor
dgwelch@utexas.edu |
WAG 14C
Education: M.A., University of Kansas
Interests: Roman historiography (Caesar, Tacitus), classical receptions in science fiction, intertextuality, ancient conceptions of genre
