Classical Studies
In its Honors Program the Classical Studies Department awards Honors and Highest Honors to student research projects. (Note: prior to Fall 2019 High Honors were awarded as well.) The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2019-2020
- No Honors students this year
2018-19
- Rebecca Gaborek, "Gardens Beneath the Ash: Contextualizing Naturalistic Imagery within Pompeii's Urban Fabric"
Molly Swetnam-Burland + Lily Panoussi, Brad Weiss - Lillian Waddill, "More Than Mortal: Divine Depictions of Livia in Early Imperial Portraiture and Literature"
Vassiliki Panoussi + Molly Swetnam-Burland, Dan Cristol - Robert Yancey, "Written in Stone: SEG XXXIV 1581, its Viewers, and their Perspectives"
William Hutton + Jessica Paga, Leslie Cochrane
2017-18
- Rachel Dubit, "A Song of Arms and of the Woman: Confronting Cleopatra in the Augustan Era through the Carmen de Bello Actiaco" (High Honors)
Molly Swetnam-Burland + Sergio Ferrarese, William Hutton - Nicholas Rudman, "Founded Upon Death: A Structural Analysis of Tacitus' Annales" (Highest Honors)
Georgia Irby + Robert Nichols, Erin Minear
2016-17
- Abigail Simon, "
Texisse and Nudare: Sulpicia's Poetics and the Fashioning of Roman Elegy" (Honors)
Vassiliki Panoussi + John Donahue, Nathan Rabalais - Lauren Wood, "Kalasiris and Charikleia: Mentorship and Intertext in Heliodorus' Aithiopika" (Honors)
William Hutton + Vassiliki Panoussi, Suzanne Hagedorn
2015-16
- Dereck Basinger, "Homer's Music through Plato's Ears" (High Honors)
Georgia Irby + William Hutton, James Armstrong
2014-15
- Maura Brennan, "A Comparative Analysis of Five Greek Fountain Houses" (High Honors)
William Hutton + John Oakley and Sibel Zandi-Sayek - Victoria Jansson, "Out of Good Fortune: The Economics of Tragedy in the House of Atreus" (High Honors)
Vassiliki Panoussi + Lily Panoussi, William Hutton and Varun Begley
2013-14
- No Honors students this year
2012-13
- Brett Evans, "Looking for Reality in Latin Love Elegy" (Highest Honors)
Vassiliki Panoussi + William Hutton, Colleen Kennedy
2011-12
- No Honors students this year
2010-11
- Brent Bickings, "Was the Western Diaspora Cut off from Israel? A Case Study of Sardis and Hamath Tiberias" (Honors)
Michael Daise + John Donahue, Julie Galambush - Samuel McVane, "The Bare Necessities: Ascetic Indian Sages in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius" (High Honors)
William Hutton + John Donahue, Kevin Vose - Irene Morrison-Moncure, "13 Recommendations for the Teaching of Elementary Latin at the Collegiate Level" (Honors)
Vassiliki Panoussi + William Hutton, Jennifer Taylor
2009-10
- Megan Shuler, "Shedding Light on Roman Social Life: An Integrative Approach to Domestic Space at
Pompii and Karanis" (High Honors)
Molly Swetnam-Burland + John Donahue, Mary Voigt
2008-09
- No Honors students this year
2007-08
- Barbara Blythe, "The Rape of the Bough: The Persephone Myth in Vergil's Aeneid" (High Honors)
Vassiliki Panoussi + John Chesley, Paula Blank (defended December 2007) - Jessica Lamont, "Sacred Space and Healing: The Cult of Asklepios in Athens" (High Honors)
Barbette Spaeth + Linda Reilly, Mary Voigt
2006-07
- Emily Rossow, "Ranting and Reading: Stand-Up Comedy and the Satiric
Recitatio " (Honors)
John Donahue + John Chesley, Gary Green
2005-06
- Julie Colaneri, "The Sicilian Tyrants: Greek or Not?" (Honors)
William Hutton + Linda Reilly, Ted Perlmutter - William Hall
Georgia Irby-Massie + William Hutton, George Greenia - Leigh Oldershaw, "Roman Domestic Religion: An Archaeological Examination of the Domestic Divinities Depicted in Pompeian Lararium Paintings" (High Honors)
Barbette Spaeth + Linda Reilly, Michael Blakey - Timothy Treem
Georgia Irby-Massie + John Chesley, Noah Lemos
2004-05
- William Burghart
John Donahue + John Oakley, Phil Daileader - Julie Mills
James Baron + Georgia Irby-Massie, Noah Lemos - Robert Schwieger
William Hutton + Linda Reilly, John Conlee
