Research Areas of Faculty

The research interests and areas of expertise of the faculty are diverse. Listed here are several broad categories with specific areas of research for possible M.A. theses and major research papers. Potential supervisors who have interests in these areas are listed alphabetically in brackets.

Greek Literary Studies
•   Epic (Greene, Nickel)
•   Historiography (Carter, Parker)
•   Oratory (Glazebrook, Nickel)
•   Tragedy (Greene, Nickel)
      

Greek History
•    Age of Perikles (Glazebrook, Greene, Parker)
•    Alexander the Great (Parker)
•    Archaic Greece (Carter, Glazebrook, Greene)
•    Economy and Trade (Greene)
•    Ethnic Identity (Carter, Smith)
•    Government, including Democracy (Glazebrook,
      Parker)
•    Military (Carter, Parker)
•    Prostitution (Glazebrook)
•    Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Glazebrook)
 

Greek Art and Archaeology
•    Archaeological Ethics (Greene)
•    Archaeological Method and Theory (Smith)
•    Archaic Greece (Greene)
•    Attic Vase Painting (Glazebrook, Greene)
•    Bronze Age (Smith)
•    Ceramic Analysis (Smith)
•    Classical Greece (Greene)
•    Greek Epigraphy (Carter, Parker)
•    Mortuary Archaeology (Smith)
•    Underwater Archaeology (Greene)

Thesis and Major Research Paper Topics
The following are the topics of current and completed theses and major research papers (supervisor in brackets):

•    Motifs in Minoan wall painting (Smith)
•    Velleius Paterculus’ portrayal of Tiberius (Carter)
•    Speech acts in the Homeric Hymns (Nickel)
•    Mycenaean children’s burials (Smith)
•    The portraiture of Alexander the Great (Parker)
•    Animal similes in the Iliad and Odyssey (Nickel)
•    Spatial patterns in the Vatican necropolis (Burrell)
•    Archaeological ethics and the preservation of
      Cypriote antiquities (Greene)
•    The Attalids’ monumental building program (Greene)
•    Roman erotic tokens: their iconography and function 
      (Glazebrook)
•    Gender and healing in the Hippocratic Corpus
      (Glazebrook)
•    Propertius and Augustan identity (Merriam)
•    Early Christian attitudes toward the family
     (Dolansky)
•    Vision and perception in Euripides' Hecuba (Greene)
•    Mycenaean hunting iconography (Smith)

Latin Literary Studies
•    Comedy (Nickel)
•    Elegy (Dolansky, Merriam)
•    Epic (Merriam)
•    Historiography (Carter, Dolansky, von Stackelberg)
•    Letters (von Stackelberg)
 

Roman History
•    Ancient Sport (Carter)
•    Economy and Trade (von Stackelberg)
•    Family (Dolansky)
•    Gardens, Landscape, and the Environment
     (von Stackelberg)
•    Religion (Dolansky)
•    Rome’s Eastern Provinces (Carter)
•    Spectacles and Entertainment (Carter)
•    Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Dolansky,
      Glazebrook, Merriam, von Stackelberg)
 

Roman Art and Archaeology
•    Domestic Art and Architecture (von Stackelberg)
•    Landscape and the Environment (von Stackelberg)
•    Latin Epigraphy (Carter, Dolansky)
•    Topography of Rome (Carter)
•    Women, Gender and the Body (von Stackelberg)