{"id":581,"date":"2023-04-11T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/clas\/?page_id=581"},"modified":"2023-04-11T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:30:49","slug":"dissertations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/clas\/dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":" \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Below is a chronilogical list of PhD dissertations from the Department of Classics. Please see our Alumni Career Trajecories page for further informaton.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Emily Brown
\n<\/strong>“Martial’s Monumental\u00a0Epigrams<\/i>: The Semiotics of Martial’s Poetry on the Urban Landscape of Flavian Rome.” (2021)
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Steven Gonzalez
\n<\/strong>“Columella<\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0Cultivation<\/span>\u00a0of Empire” (2021)
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Hannah Mason
\n<\/strong>\u201cIndividual and State in Lucretius\u2019\u00a0de Rerum Natura<\/i>\u201d (2020)<\/p>\n

Jennifer Devereaux
\n“Intercorporeality: Toward a New History of Roman Emotion” (2019)<\/p>\n

Christian Lehmann
\n<\/strong>“The End of Augustan Literature: Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto IV<\/a>” (2018)
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Paul Salay
\n<\/strong>“The More Things Change: Economic Institutions and Maritime Trade in the Archaic Western Mediterranean<\/a>” (2018)<\/p>\n

Thomas Sapsford
\n<\/strong>“The life of the kinaidoi<\/a>” (2017)
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Hannah \u010cul\u00edk-Baird
\n<\/strong>“Cicero and the early Latin poets<\/a>” (2017)
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Matthew Chaldekas
\n<\/strong>“Vision in Theocritus: perception, performance, poetics<\/a>” (2017)
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Afroditi Angelopoulou
\n<\/strong>“Emotionality and the Embodiment of Morality in Aeschylean Tragedy<\/a>” (2017)<\/p>\n

Robert Matera
\n<\/strong>“The Vulnerable Corpus of Propertius<\/a>” (2017)<\/p>\n

Scott Lepisto
\n<\/strong>“Scripted voices: persona and speech in Senecan philosohy<\/a>” (2016)<\/p>\n

Devon Harlow
\n<\/strong>“From Demeter to Dionysos:\u00a0Laughter as a Vehicle for Transformation in Archaic Cult Ritual and Attic Old Comedy<\/a>” (2016)<\/p>\n

Dina Boero
\n<\/strong>“Symeon and the Making of the Stylite: The Construction of Sanctity in Late Antique Syria” (2015)<\/p>\n

Joseph O’Neill
\n<\/strong>“Ideology and Practice in the Claudian Annals” (2015)<\/p>\n

Hamish Cameron
\n<\/strong>“Constructing a Borderland: Roman Imperial Geographic Writers on Mesopotamia from the 1st to 4th Centuries” (2014)<\/p>\n

Nicole Giannella
\n<\/strong>“The Mind of the Slave: the Limits of Knowledge and Power in Roman Law and Society” (2014)<\/p>\n

Orazio Cappello
\n<\/strong>“Cicero’s Academica and the Foundation of a Roman Academy” (2014)<\/p>\n

Jason Harris
\n<\/strong>“The Tyrant and the Migrant: the Bonds Between Syracusan\u00a0Hegemony and Mobility from Dionysius I to Agathocles<\/a>” (2013)
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Thomas Cirillo
\n<\/strong>“Categorizing Difference: Classification, Biology, and Politics in Aristotelian Philosophy<\/a>” (2012)
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Richard Ellis
\n<\/strong>“Heraclitus’ Children: Bodies, Minds and Culture at Play<\/a>” (2011)<\/p>\n

Joanna Valentine
\n“The Archaeology of Parmenides: Philosophy, Poetry and Ritual in Fifth-Century Campania<\/a>” (2011)<\/p>\n

Lisl Walsh
\n“Seneca’s\u00a0Medea\u00a0and the Tragic Self<\/a>” (2011)<\/p>\n

Kristina Meinking<\/strong>
\n“Anger Matters: Politics and Theology in the Fourth Century CE<\/a>” (2010)<\/p>\n

Eleanor Rust
\n<\/strong>“Ex Angulis Secretisque Librorum<\/em>: Reading, Writing, and Using Miscellaneous Knowledge in the\u00a0Noctes Atticae<\/em><\/a>” (2009)<\/p>\n

Sarah Blake
\n“Writing Materials: Things in the Literature of Flavian Rome<\/a>” (2008)
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Phillip Sidney Horky<\/strong>
\n“Plato’s Magnesia and Philosophical Polities in Magna Graecia<\/a>” (2007)<\/p>\n

Chiara Sulprizio
\n<\/strong>“Gender, Space and Warfare in the Early Plays of Aristophanes<\/a>” (2007)<\/p>\n

E. Del Chrol<\/p>\n

“Countercultural Responses to the Crisis of Masculinity in Late Republican Rome<\/a>” (2006)<\/p>\n

Catherine Feeley<\/strong>
\n“Reflexive Politics: Cicero’s Relationship with the Roman Voters” (2006)<\/p>\n

Daniella Widdows<\/strong>
\n<\/em>“Removing the Body: Representations of Animal Skins of Ancient Greek Vases<\/a>” (2006)<\/p>\n

Siobhan McElduff<\/strong>
\n“Translation and Cultural Authority in Rome” (2004)<\/p>\n

Philip Purchase<\/strong>
\n“Narcissism and the Dying Subject in Ancient Pastoral and Elegy” (2003)<\/p>\n

Mark Masterson<\/strong>
\n“Roman Manhood at the End of the Ancient World<\/a>” (2001)<\/p>\n

Rosa Cornford Parent<\/strong>
\n“Mapping Identity Politics in Lucian” (2001)<\/p>\n

Peter O’Neill<\/strong>
\n“Non-elite Speech in Ancient Rome” (2001)<\/p>\n

Alex Watts-Tobin<\/strong>
\n“Generals and Particulars in Thucydides” (2000)<\/p>\n

Rhiannon Evans<\/strong>
\n“Forma Orbis: Geography, Ethnography and Shaping the Roman Empire<\/a>” (1999)<\/p>\n

Trevor Fear
\n<\/strong>“Love’s Economy: Poets, Pimps, and Prostitution in Roman Elegy”\u00a0<\/strong>(1999)<\/p>\n

Sandra Blakely
\n<\/strong>“Daimones, Metallurgy, and Cult<\/a>” (1998)<\/p>\n

Joseph Smith<\/strong>
\n“The Translation of Tragedy into Imperial Rome: A Study of Seneca’s Hercules and Oedipus” (1998)<\/p>\n

Diane Pintabone<\/strong>
\n“Women and the Unspeakable: Rape in Ovid’s\u00a0Metamorphoses<\/em><\/a>” (1998)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hannah Fearnley<\/strong>
\n“Reading Martial’s Rome” (1998)<\/p>\n

Jessica Dietrich<\/strong>
\n“Thebais Rescriptrix: Rewriting and Closure in Statius’\u00a0Thebaid<\/em>\u00a012<\/a>” (1997)<\/p>\n

Therese De Vet<\/strong>
\n“Oral Poets, Written Texts: The Influence of Performance Traditions on the Homeric Epics” (1997)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-581","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDissertations - Department of Classics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/clas\/dissertations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dissertations - Department of Classics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/clas\/dissertations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Classics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-11T20:30:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/clas\/dissertations\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/clas\/dissertations\/\",\"name\":\"Dissertations - 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