GRADUATE STUDENTS

CANDIDATES IN CLASSICS, 2007-2008
The following students have fulfilled all Department requirements leading to the Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil.) degree and are writing dissertations during the 2007-2008 academic year. ("The Candidate in Philosophy [C.Phil.] is awarded to qualified students upon advancement to candidacy in Ph.D. programs where it is offered." UCLA Graduate Division's "Standards and Procedures"]

Patrick Gomez
Education:  A.B. Classics, Stanford University, 1991; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 1997
Research Interests: Greek and Roman Historiography, ktiseis, narratology, language acquisition and pedagogy
Dissertation: "The Fitting Description: Characterization in the Histories of Polybius." Stephen Lattimore*, Michael Haslam, Robert Gurval, David Phillips (History).

Karen Gunterman
Education: B.A., Reed College, Portland Oregon, 1964; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 1997
Research Interests: Historiography; ancient novel; the philosophical context and content of ancient literature
Dissertation: “Herodotus’ Ideas about Language”; David Blank*, Brent Vine, Steve Lattimore, Alessandro Duranti (Anthropology)
Activities: "The bekos Story: Thinking about language with Herodotus", Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 2001; "The Robbers' Cave: the significance of an ecphrasis in Apuleius' Metamorphoses", APA 2002; "Philosophical Rhetoric and Apulieus' Golden Ass", Canadian Philosophical Association, 2003; "She Speaks: Artemisia before Salamis (Herodotus 8.63)", CAMWS 2004

Christopher Johanson
Education: B.A., Iowa State University, 1999; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2002
Awards: Lenart Traveling Fellowship 2006; Quality of Graduate Education Award 2006; Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA, 2002
Research Interests:  Topography, ancient spectacle, Roman death
Activities: NEH Summer Institute: Models of Ancient Rome, Institute Coordinator; Panel: The Next Generation: Emerging Scholars, Scholarly Communication Institute (UVA) 2006; "Working within Evidentiary Boundaries: Reconstructing Republican Rome." Architecture That isn't There: Virtual Recreations of the Destroyed, the Altered and the Never Built. Cincinnati 2005; "The Virtual Landscape and the Terrain of Reconstruction: A Topographical Case Study in Republican Rome." ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases, Berkeley 2004; "A Virtual Reality Analysis of the Comitium at Rome." Poster presented at XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston 2003; Visualization of Text: A Four-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Comitium at Rome. CAMWS, Lexington 2003.
Dissertation: "Spectacle in the Forum: Visualizing the Funeral of L. Aemilius Paullus"; Sander Goldberg*, Robert Gurval, Brent Vine, Diane Favro (Architecture & Urban Design)

Bryan Lockett
Education:  B.A., University of Chicago, 1996; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 1998
Awards:  UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003-2004
Research Interests: Greek and Roman drama
Dissertation: “Aristophanes and the comic construction of space”; Kathryn Morgan*, Sander Goldberg, Alex Purves, David Phillips (History)

Christine Thompson
Education:  B.A., History, UCLA, 1993; M.A., Tufts University, Classics, 1999
Awards:  Sean Dever Memorial Prize for the best published article in Syro-Palestinian archaeology by a graduate student, 2004; Samuel H. Kress Traveling Fellowships from the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, 2005-2006 and 2006-2007
Research Interests: Greece and the Near East; epigraphy; numismatics
Dissertation: “Silver in the Age of Iron and the Mediterranean Contributions to the Origin of Coinage”; Robert Gurval*, David Blank, Brent Vine, Susan Downey (Art History)
Activities: “Sealed Silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the 'Invention' of Coinage”, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2003 22.1, 67-108.

THE DEPARTMENT'S STUDENTS, 2007-2008
The following students are working towards completing Department requirements leading to the Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil.) degree. ("The Candidate in Philosophy [C.Phil.] is awarded to qualified students upon advancement to candidacy in Ph.D. programs where it is offered." UCLA Graduate Division's "Standards and Procedures"] The list includes those students who are currently working towards completing the required M.A. in Classics as well as those who have earned the M.A. but have not yet advanced to candidacy.

Michael Brumbaugh
Education: Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, Italy, 2003; Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2004; A.B., magna cum laude, honors in Classics, Colgate University, 2004
Awards: Andrew Mellon Fellowship; Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA; UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Award for study at Goethe Institut, Dresden, 2006
Research Interests: Intersections of myth, religion, and philosophy as seen in Greek hexameter, multi-ethnic Alexandria, Roman material culture and imperial building programs, and the reception of Classics in colonial South America.  
Activities: "Chaos - A Critical Analysis of Original Space." Imaginary Landscapes, The Johns Hopkins University, October 1, 2005; "Chaos - A Critical Analysis of Theogonic Origins." APA Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, January 2006; “Doing Justice to Hesiod and Clarifying Murky Tartaros,” Imagined Places, Harvard University, April 22, 2006.

Renée Calkins
Education: B.A., Writing, UC San Diego, 1993; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2005
Research Interests: Contextualizing Greek public speech; intersections of representations in art and theater

Cameron Fitzsimmons
Education: B.A., Comparative Literature, Sarah Lawrence College, 1992; M.A., San Francisco State University, 2004
Awards: Ungaretti Translation Prize, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University, 2002 and 2003; William R. Hearst/CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2003; Richard Trapp Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Latin, San Francisco State University, 2003; Chancellor’s Fellowship, UCLA, 2004
Research Interests:  Roman social history and Latin satire, epigram, comedy; class, gender and sexuality (especially construction of masculinity)

Giselle Furlonge
Education: B.A., summa cum laude, Classics and American History, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Mellon Fellowship, Livingston Fellowship, UCLA Chancellor's Prize, 2007
Research Interests: Cross-cultural contacts between Greece and the Near East, Greek conceptions of the female body, sexuality, and foreignness, particularly in Euripides.  

Robert Groves
Education:  B.S., Classics, University of Wisconsin, 2002; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, UCLA, 2005, M.A., Classics, UCLA 2007.
Awards:  Logan Prize for Greek Translation; Pillinger Prize for Latin Translation, University of Wisconsin
Research Interests:  Hellenistic Egypt (both Alexandrian poetry and cultural/social history), classical ethnographic and geographic writings (from Herodotus to Pliny and beyond) and their post-classical legacy. 
Activities: "The Librarian and the Shaman: Making Sense of Apollonius's Allusions to Empedocles"; CAMWS, 2007.  Co-Organizer,  Freaks! Exploring the Unnatural in the Classical World,  UCLA, 2006.  Theatrical performances including acting and singing roles: Aristophanes' Birds (APA, 2007), Gilbert and Sullivan's Thespis (APA, 2006) and directing the beginning Latin students' production of Auricula Meretricula (UCLA, 2007)

Frances Kern
Education: B.A., magna cum laude, Classics (minor in archaeology), Carleton College, 2003; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2006
Awards:  UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Award to study at Goethe Institut in Freiburg, 2004
Research Interests:  Ancient theater; Roman literature of the early empire (especially Petronius); material culture
Activities: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Thespis, APA 2006; Aristophanes’ Birds, APA 2007; “Strategies of Rape in the Foundation Myths of Rome and Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, Southwest Texas/American Popular Culture Association, February 17, 2007

Andrew Kinzler
Education: B.A., summa cum laude, Classical Languages, Trinity University, 2006
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa; Outstanding Senior in the Study of Greek, Trinity University, 2006
Research Interests: Homeric epic; Greek, Latin, and Indo-European linguistics; Greek religion; Greek interaction with the Near East

Emily Kratzer
Education: B.A., University of Kansas, 2003; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2006
Awards: Tenney Frank Undergraduate Scholarship, KU 2002-2003; Phi Beta Kappa, KU 2003; Phi Kappa Phi, KU 2003; Dean’s Humanities Fellow, UCLA 2004-2009; Graduate Research Mentorship, UCLA 2007-2008
Research Interests: Greek religion and the concept of the afterlife; the Orphic gold lamellae; Greek lyric and poetics; comparative mythology
Activities: “Contesting Ideologies: The Epinician and Soteriological in Pindar’s Olympian 2” APA, Chicago 2008; Department of Classics Graduate Student Representative, 2006-2007. "The didactic role of recusatio and the Horatian persona" CAMWS, Tuscon 2008; Graduate Representative for Classics Faculty Search Committee, APA, Chicago 2008

Suzanne Lye
Education: A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1998; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2007.
Awards: Weissman International Fellowship, Harvard University, 1996; John Finley Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, 1998; Summer Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C., 2005; Conference Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, 2006; Summer Fellowship, Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome, 2006; CAMWS Semple Award for the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 2007.
Research Interests: Ancient colonization, ethnic identity, and bilingualism; Orpheus and Greco-Roman cult practices, magic, and religion; Homeric epic and its reception; memory and monuments; public spectacle
Activities: Co-chair, Freaks! Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World, UCLA Graduate Conference, 2006; Graduate Student Representative, UCLA Classics Department, 2007-2008; Graduate Student Representative, Women’s Classical Caucus, 2007-08.
Conferences: “Organizing Crime: Circus Factions in the Ancient World,” University of Southern California Graduate Conference, Los Angeles, 2006; “Sulpicia’s Illness and the Feminization of Masculine Love Elegy,” UCLA Thinking Gender Conference, 2006; “Oath theory, the Goddess Styx, and Justice in Hesiod’s Theogony,” CorHaLi XVII Conference, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, 2006; “The Goddess Styx and the Mapping of World Order in Hesiod’s Theogony,” Rocky Mountain Association MLA Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2006; “Binding Spell: The Merging of Orpheus and Medea in the Argonautica,” CAMWS, Tucson, AZ, April 2008; “Passport to the Underworld: Negotiating the Borderlands of the Afterlife,” UCSB Graduate Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, March 2008; “Controlling the Gods: Human Agency vs. Divine Will in the Argonautika of Apollonius of Rhodes,” University of Groningen Conference and Hellenistic Workshop, Groningen, The Netherlands, August 2008.

Matthew McAuliffe
Education: B.A., Classics and Theology, Gonzaga University; M.A., Early Christian Studies, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests: Archaic Greek poetry; ancient sexuality; Greek religion

James Mixon
Education: B.A., History, UCLA, 1994; M.A., Communications, USC; J.D., USC, 1997; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, UCLA, 2003
Awards:  Chancellor's Fellowship, UCLA, 2003-2004
Research Interests: Late Republican literature and history; Roman comedy; Ovid

Katharine Piller
Education: B.A., Classical Languages, University of Kansas, 2006
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, departmental honors, Distinction in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; UCLA Chancellor’s Prize, 2006
Interests: Augustan poetry, particularly Ovid and Virgil, the ancient novel, Hellenistic poetry and history, gender and sexuality, and Parthenius

Alex Press
Education: B.A. in Classics, Columbia College, 1989; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, UCLA, 2007
Interests: Linguistics, literary theory, Old Comedy, Greek and Roman intellectual history

Emily Rush
Education: B.A., Classical Languages, Art History, University of St. Thomas; M.A., Art History, University of Chicago; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2006; Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2007-2008.
Awards: UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA, 2005; UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Award for a Goethe Institute language course in Munich, 2005; UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Award, Summer 2006; Women's Classical Caucus Award for best graduate student presentation "Magic and Inversion in Sophocles' Trachiniae" APA 2007; Bert Hodge Hill Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2007-2008.
Research Interests: Archaic and Hellenistic Greek poetry; Greek vase painting; the relationship between literary evidence and material culture; Latin poetry.
Activities: "Magic and Inversion in Sophocles' Trachiniae," APA, Montreal 2006; Co-Organizer: Freaks! Exploring the Unnatural in the Classical World, November 10-11, 2006; "Between Text and Image: Intertextuality and the Ransom of Hektor," Homer and His Worlds, NYU Graduate Conference, March 24, 2007.

Craig Russell
Education: B.A., Classics, University of Oregon, 2003; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2006
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa; Pascal Prize for best Latin student, University of Oregon, 2002
Research Interests: Epic, particularly Homer and Vergil; Plato; Greek and Latin, how the languages change over time, and how different authors work with and influence them.

Ellen Snyder
Education: B.A. Classics, Oberlin College, 2002; M.A. Classics, Vanderbilt University, 2006
Awards: Florence Frew Prize for Excellence in Greek and Latin Languages, Oberlin College; University Fellowship, Vanderbilt University; Rankin Award, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Gender and sexuality; sexual violence in ancient warfare

Charles Stein
Education: B.A., Classics, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2005; ICCS, Spring 2004
Awards:  Phi Beta Kappa; Pauley Fellowship, 2005-2006; Quality of Graduate Education Award for study at Goethe Institut, Freiburg, Germany, 2006
Research Interests: Epic poetry; intersection of epic with other genres.

Charles Stocking
Education:  B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Stanford University, 2002
Research Interests:  Archaic Greek poetry, Greece and the Near East, historical and theoretical linguistics

Lowry Sweeney
Education: B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University,1992; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 1998
Awards:  Michael Jameson Fellowship from the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, 2001-2002
Research Interests:  Archaic & classical Greek poetry and performance; Greek and Roman religion, especially in the Greek colonies; Indo-European poetics and comparative mythology

Eleni Tsaggouri
Education:  B.A., History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece, 1992; M.A., Classics, UCLA, 2004
Research Interests: Hellenistic poetry; old and new comedy, ancient Greek and Byzantine historiography

Brian Walters
Education:  B.A. in Interdisciplinary Classical Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1998; M.A. in Classics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2003
Awards: Latin Prize, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Missouri; Tenney Frank Research Fellowship, University of Kansas; Tenney Frank Award for Foreign Study, University of Kansas;
Austin Lashbrook Award, University of Kansas; Deans List, 1996-1999, University of Missouri; Chancellor's Fellowship, UCLA, 2005
Research Interests:  Roman Republican literature and history; ancient religion and magic; didactic epic (through the ages)
Activities:  "Love, War, and Periodic Structure: Propertius 1.21-22," CAMWS, Austin TX, April 4, 2002; "Contemporary Allusions in Plautus' Casina 523-4," CAMWS, Louisville, Kentucky, April 3, 2003; "Introire and the Public Stage: Performance and Spectacle in the Letters of M. Caelius Rufus," ASH