Current Graduate Students

Current graduate students, their research interests, and major research paper and thesis topics:

Jennesa Dyck
Bronze Age Aegean history and archaeology
MRP: Social and personal identity in Aegean Bronze Age artistic representations

David Farag
Roman social history; art and architecture of the late Republic and early Empire

Andrew Fulham
Classical Greek and Republican Roman historiography and political science, specifically international relations

Brandon Garib
Greek slave cultures; Greek and Roman education
MRP: The Examination of Paideia in the Corpus of Xenophon

Ryan Gillap
Greek and Latin language and literature
MRP: The choral odes in Euripides' Hecuba

Jesse Johnston
Latin language and literature, especially rape narratives in Ovid's Fasti

Tessa Little
Roman social and cultural history; animal studies; Roman religion

Sarah Robinson
Gender and women studies in antiquity; Greek and Roman religion; Roman art and architecture; representations of the body in Roman literature and art; Roman history from the end of the Republic to the early Empire

Sarah Rowlands
Greek archaeology, numismatics and economic history, iconography, and urban architecture
MRP: Form and Functionality: A study of early Greek coinage

Michelle Sugar
Greek and Roman religion and myth

Ana Wagner
Bronze Age archaeology, especially Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations

Congratulations to Alison Innes, Kevin Kochan, and Samantha Rohrig who have recently completed the MA program and are set to graduate in 2012/2013!

Current and former students have been or presently are involved in faculty research projects overseas in:

• Larnaca, Cyprus
• Gournia and Myrsini, Crete
• Kastro Kallithea, Greece
• Nemea, Greece
• Bodrum, Turkey
• Burgaz, Turkey

In addition, students have worked as research assistants on projects concerning gender and slavery and Greek prostitution (manuscript preparation), and have been involved in databases and digital scanning of archives related to the Promontory Palace at Caesarea, Israel project.

What have some of our recent graduates been doing since they completed their degrees?

• PhD program in Ancient History at York University
• PhD program in Classics at the University at Buffalo
• MA program in artifact conservation at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles followed by employment as conservator at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• cultural resource management and contract archaeology in Ontario
• work as Instructional Development Assistant for the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation
• archival work for the Canadian Armed Forces
• archaeological illustration work for classical archaeologists and social historians working in Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey
• data entry and processing for the Ministry of Education in Victoria, British Columbia