Current Graduate Students
Hayley Barnett
Assistant Instructor
WAG 11
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Roman colonialism and imperialism, culture in the Roman provinces, the archaeology and history of Sicily, ancient coinage, ancient and modern foodways, and classical reception.
Thomas J Bolt
Post-Doctoral Fellow
tbolt@utexas.edu |
WAG 19
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas
Interests: Latin epic (Statius, Vergil, and Ovid in particular), Roman satire, ancient humor, genre theory, Digital Humanities
Erin Brantmayer
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Brandeis University
Interests: Greek archaeology, Bronze Age cultural contact in the eastern Mediterranean, Greek religion, spatial/landscape archaeology, archaeological theory and methodology, digital archaeology, GIS
Javal Coleman
Graduate student
Interests: Ancient Slavery, Gender and Sexuality, Ancient Law, The Second Sophistic, Ancient Biography (Suetonius, Plutarch).
Grace Gibson
Assistant Instructor
gdgibson@utexas.edu |
WAG 121
Interests: ancient graffiti; non-elite writing and visual representation; domestic and gendered space; digital archaeology; Roman masculinity; ancient healthcare and gynecology
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.
Nathaniel Katz
Assistant Instructor
Interests: Roman history (especially of the imperial succession) and numismatics
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, relationship between people and their environments, sacred space
Michele Mitrovich
Graduate student
Education: Second-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas O. Rover
Assistant Instructor
thomasrover@utexas.edu |
WAG 014C
Interests: Greek arms and armor; Greek colonialism; experimental archaeology
Christy Schirmer
Assistant Instructor
Interests: Greek and Roman archaeology; ancient economy; ancient industries and food production
David Welch
Assistant Instructor
dgwelch@utexas.edu |
WAG 14C
Education: M.A., University of Kansas
Interests: Roman historiography (Caesar, Tacitus), intertextuality, ancient conceptions of genre, classical receptions in science fiction
