Graduate Program
Placement
Yale Classics has trained many of the leaders of the profession both in this and past centuries. The Department has an excellent record of placing newly-minted Ph.D.'s in jobs both in the US and abroad. Several of our students have gone on to successful careers outside higher education, as well.
Placement of Recent PhDs
- 2011
William Brockliss, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University.
The Flower in Homeric Poetry - Graziela Byros, Adjunct Lecturer in Latin, Northwestern University
Reconstructing Identities in Roman Dacia: Evidence from Religion - Noah Dion
Genesis by the Book: Augustinian Literalism in the
Latin Epic Hexaemeron and Milton’s Paradise Lost - John Oksanish, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Building the Principate: A Literary Study of Vitruvius’ de Architectura - Anke Rondholz, Postdoctoral Fellow,
“Poleis, Heiligtümer und Territorien im Xanthostal der griechisch-römischen Zeit”
The Versatile Needle: Hosidius Geta’s Cento Medea and its Tradition - Caroline Stark, Visiting Assistant Professor, Temple University
The Role of Knowledge in Ancient and Renaissance Conceptions of Man - 2010
Tommaso Gazzarri, Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College.
Res sine Nomine. A Study of Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales - Ornella Rossi, freelance editor and writer, Florence, Italy
Letters from far away: Ancient epistolary travel writing and the case of Cicero’s correspondence - Tristan Taylor, Associate Lecturer in Law
University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Ideology and Usurpation in the Fourth Century 337-425 C.E. (in progress) - 2009
Katherine Wasdin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Rutgers
The Reluctant Bride: Greek and Roman Wedding - John Jacobs, Montclair Kimberley Academy, Montclair, NJ
Anne iterum capta repetentur Pergama Roma? The fall of Rome in the Punica - Ayelet Haimson-Lushkov, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
The Culture of Authority: Narrative and the Roman Political Imagination - 2008
Pramit Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Theomachy: Ethical Criticism and the Struggle for Authority in Epic and Tragedy - John Dillon, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Exeter (UK)
The Legislation of Constantine the Great: Justice, Administration, and Reform - 2007
Edward Zarrow, High School Teacher, Boston
The Image and Memory of Julius Caesar between Triumvirate and Principate (44 BCE-CE 14) - 2006
Peter Mazur, Assistant Professor, Bard High School Early College, Queens, NY
APATE: Deception in Archaic Greek Culture - Christopher van den Berg, Assistant Professor, Amherst College
The Social Aesthetics of Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus - 2005
Gregory Viggiano, Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University
Unreported Speeches and Selection in Thucydides - 2004
Serena Connolly, Assistant Professor, Rutgers
Access to Law in Late Antiquity: Status, Corruption, and the Evidence of the Codex Hermogenianus - Maria Rybakova, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University (also a successful novelist)
The Child-snatching Demons of Antiquity: Narrative Traditions, Psychology and Nachleben - 2003
Akihiko Watanabe, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Hippothoos the Lover, Bandit, and Friend: A Study of Elite Masculinity in the Novel - 2002
Cristiana Sogno, Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Q. Aurelius Symmachus: A Political Career Between Senate and Court - Josiah Osgood, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
The Missing Years: Italy 44-29 BC - 2001
Emily Wilson, Associate Professor, UPenn
“Why Do I Overlive?” Greek, Latin and English Tragic Survival - William Desmond, Senior Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Greek Praise of Poverty: A Genealogy of Early Cynicism - Genevieve Gessert, assistant Professor, Hood College, Maryland
Urban Spaces, Public Decoration, and Civic Identity in Ancient Ostia - Scott McGill, Associate Professor, Rice University, Houston
Vergilius Alter: Studies in the Virgilian Cento - Daniel Berman, Associate Professor, Temple University
Cultural Representation and the “Myth” of The Seven Against Thebes in Early Greek Narrative - David Berkey, Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno
The Struggle of Hegemony: Greek Interstate Politics and Foreign Policy, 404-371 B.C. - 2000
Caroline Quenemoen, Assistant Professor, Rice University
The Architectural Significance of the House of Augustus - Robert Huitt, High School Teacher, Hamden High School
Iustum Bellum: Augustine’s Attitude Toward War - Michael R. Estell, Associate, Cooley Godward Kronish, Legal Firm
Poetry in War and War in Poetry: The Martial Role of Song and the Aesthetic Representation of War in Ancient Greece - 1999
Helen Cullyer, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh
Greatness of Soul in Aristotle, Cicero, and Popular Morality - Joel Allen, Associate Professor, Queens College, NY
Hostage-taking and Cultural Diplomacy In the Roman Empire - 1998
Patrice Rankine, Associate Professor, Purdue University
Tragedy and Empire: Euripides’ Hecuba, Seneca’s Troades, and the Discourse of Civic Identity - Charles Weiss, Classics Language Teaching Officer, Cambridge University
Literary Turns: The Representation of Conversion in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses - Randall McNeill, Associate Professor, Lawrence University
Horace in the Mirror: Techniques of Address and Self-Presentation - Dan Solomon, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University
Lucretius and the Deception of Rome: Epicurean Linguistics & Epistemology in the De Rerum Natura
