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Alisa Bowden
Contact: ambvf3@mizzou.edu
M.A. Languages and Literature (Ancient Greek & Latin), University of Auckland 2008
When I finished my M.A. at the University of Auckland, I decided to pursue further study overseas. So I left New Zealand and came to Missouri. Although the main reason for my decision to apply to MU was my research on Homer and interest in Oral Tradition, I am interested in many aspects and genres of Greek and Roman literature.
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Caitlin Corbett
Contact: cac8bd@mizzou.edu
Website: http://web.missouri.edu/~cac8bd
B.A. Classics, University of Oklahoma, 2009
Having begun college as an International Studies major, my academic career shifted to the Classical path during my junior year. This, not surprisingly, necessitated an extended stay at OU’s Classics department. Though I have always loved ancient history and culture, the decision to change course came while excavating in Italy in 2006. Since then, I have been completely immersed in the subject matter and am quite pleased to be working toward my MA and PhD here at Mizzou.
As you will see, my research interests reside primarily with early Roman imperial history. I am very interested in Latin historiography dealing with Tacitus and Suetonius. Much of my ongoing research deals with biography of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, with special interest in Nero, freedwoman Claudia Acte and Tiberius. However, I am also interested in Latin elegy, particularly the works of Catullus and Ovid. When it comes to Greek and Roman philosophy, I would say I dabble.
Matt Crutchfield
Contact: mdc2n4@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, Truman State University 2000
M.A. Classical Languages, University of Missouri 2003
Having finished my coursework in May of 2006, this year I will be busy studying for my comprehensive exams, working on my dissertation, serving as Departmental Research Assistant and spending time with my newborn daughter, Emma.
While I have a wide range of interests including Greek and Latin poetry and pedagogy, my main interests are Greek Tragedy and Latin Elegy and Epic. In the past I have worked on the Augustan Elegists. However, currently my research interests have turned to the "Silver" age, particularly epic. I plan to write my dissertation on a yet-to-be-determined aspect of Lucan's Bellum Civile.
Recent and upcoming presentations
"Non credita muris: Epicurean Views of Death and Impotent Boundaries in Lucan Pharsalia I" Classical Association of the Middle, West and South-Southern Section, Memphis, Tennessee, November, 2007.
"Shunned Love: A Tibullan Response to Propertius 1.5" Classical Association of the Middle, West and South, Gainseville, Florida, April 2006.
"Teaching Latin as a Profession" Panel Presentation at Truman State University's Classics "Alive and Kicking" series. Invited Speaker.
"Retention of Greek Students", Panel Presentation, Missouri Classical Association, University of Missouri-Columbia, October 2005.
"Tibullus 1.1 and the Paintings from Boscotrecase" University of Missouri-Columbia, Ancient Studies Occasional Papers, University of Missouri-Columbia, February 2005.
Morgan Grey
Contact: meg5y7@mizzou.edu
BA Cornell University, 2002
Post-Bac work Ohio University, 2002-2003
MA University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007
In the fourth grade I fell ill one day, and my mother presented me with a book, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wonderbook and Tanglewood Tales". On that day, a Classicist was born, at least as much of a Classicist as a fourth grader can be. I promptly checked out every book on mythology, and decided that reading the myths in the original Greek and Latin would be a great idea. While at times I have questioned that "great idea", it has so far been the right decision. After receiving my BA in Classical Civilizations from Cornell University, I spent a year at Ohio University doing post-baccalaureate work, including studying abroad. While at OU, I was given the opportunity to tutor, and from this experience decided to try teaching. I spent two years in New Jersey teaching middle school, but I realized I wanted to return to school for graduate work. Missouri allowed me that opportunity, and I had a chance to TA, as well as teach Latin and Classical Mythology classes. My coursework and teaching have allowed me to continue my interest in mythology, as well as expand it to research interests in Ovid, Lucian, and Classical Reception (i.e., the after life of Classical literature).
Naomi Kaloudis
Contact: nrk2m5@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, St. Anselm College, 2004
M.A. Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia 2007
After receiving my BA in Classics I sojourned in the field for three seasons at the Athenian Agora while working towards a MA in Archaeology. This semester begins my second year of PhD work in the Classics Department. Currently my interests lie in Hellenistic poetry, pastoral to be specific, and most recently I delivered a paper on Theokritos’ Idyll 7 in connection with the cult of Demeter at a conference in Athens.
Kate Livingston
Contact: kjlhd3@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, Davidson College (Davidson, NC), 2002
M.A. Classical Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia (anticipated) Dec. 2006
I took menial jobs for two years after undergrad, and that convinced me that I really did want to go back to school,so I started at Mizzou in the fall of 2004. Right now I am writing my master's thesis for the Art History and Archaeology department and teaching two sections of the introductory art history survey, Art 1110. I will be starting coursework in Classics in January 2007.
I like Greek, and mostly all things Greek. My main interests are Minoan Crete and Homer. Coins are also pretty cool, and I really liked the Greek Lyric course I took last year. We'll see what else I get into once my thesis is done.
John M. Makarewicz
Contact: jmmcr5@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, Loyola University New Orleans 2005
I was first introduced to the classics during my freshman year of high school Latin, and since then, I have never stopped studying Latin. As a native of St. Louis, I am happy to be back in the Show-Me State after having received my B.A. in Classics from Loyola University New Orleans in 2005 and teaching one semester of high school Latin. This is my second year as a graduate student at Mizzou, and this fall I am looking forward to TAing Greek Culture and preparing for the qualifiers at the end of the second semester. My primary interests are Latin poetry and Greek and Roman History.
Damien Martin
Contact: djmb57@mizzou.edu
B.J. Journalism; minor in Classical Humanities
After graduating from Mizzou's J-school in 2005, I got the opportunity to work in the sports department at the Kansas City Star. The newspaper business landed me a job in Hawaii, where I was able to live for a year. That experience only enhanced my love of travel, languages and culture, which led me back to Mizzou in pursuit of an MA in Classical Studies, which I hope will allow me to work with classical and modern languages and spend time in Europe. This is my first year of graduate study.
Wesley Parker
Contact: wep3kf@mizzou.edu
B.S. German, Missouri State University, 1994
I graduated from Missouri State University in 1994 with a German major and Latin minor. In 2009, I hope to complete the requirements for a M.A. in Latin. Last spring I began to study Noam Chomsky's most recent theories of language and communication. After I complete the M.A. in Latin, I hope to purse an advanced degree in Linguistics.
Rhiannon Rowlands
Contact: rmrhw5@mizzou.edu
I received my BA in Classical Civilization with a minor in Latin from University of Arizona in 2002 and my MA in Classics with an emphasis in Philology from the same institution in 2005. I'm very happy to be at Mizzou now, working towards my PhD.
Some of my current research interests include: gender identity in the ancient world, historiography (with particular emphasis on Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition), characterization and audience reception of characters in literature, and whatever else has happened to catch my fickle attention this week.
Presentations
"Ambiguity and Fear: Eunuchs in Roman Literature" Classical Association of Middle West and South, Gainesville, Florida, April 2006
M. A. Thesis
"Roman Eunuchs: Sex, Gender, and Identity" University of Arizona. 2005
Casey Shamey
Contact: css5ff@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, University of Pittsburgh 2004
Casey Shamey is a first year PhD. student who received his BA in Classical Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and his MA in Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His interests are Classical myth and religion with a recent interest in comparative myth, specifically between Classical and Norse myth.
Andrew Smith
Contact: ams8bd@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, Kent State University
After studying Latin and Greek in high school, I continued my study at Kent State University in Ohio, taking a BA in Classical Greek and in Latin. I moved out to study at the University of Missouri in 2007, where I have been interested in honor systems in the epic tradition, as well as translation of those texts. I have tought two courses in the Latin sequence as well as a summer course in classical mythology.
Dan Stahl
Contact: dlsbvc@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, Columbia University 2007
After entering college as an English major, I migrated to Classics halfway through, firmly persuaded that the serious pursuit of my literary interests required a working knowledge of the ancient world. Going forward, as the trailblazing of modernists like Pound and Eliot seemed to demonstrate, meant first going backward. My current interests bear the imprint -- or perhaps the conspicuous stamp -- of my initial orientation and diachronic preoccupations. These include literary criticism (ancient and modern), Greek drama, Latin elegy, mythology, fifth-century Athens, Roman history from 753 BCE through the reign of Marcus Aurelius, philhellenism and, inevitably, the classical tradition.
Casey Starnes
Contact: cjsyr5@mizzou.edu
B.A. Latin, Southwest Missouri State University 2002
M.A. Classical Languages, University of Missouri 2004
Some of my interests include Latin poetry (quamvis genus), Allecto, Briareus and all the other beasties, oral tradition, and linguistics. Having passed the comps in Dec., my recent research has been on pastoral, epic, and parody in the preparation of my dissertation: the Culex as parody of Virgil and the neoterics. I also enjoy jamming metal guitar, listening to Dvorák and tantalizing Dr. Schenker with the odd Latin question. Equidem merui nec deprecor.
Recent presentations:
"Constructing Greek Masculinity: Cretan and Spartan Drinking Rituals", CAMWS, Tucson AZ, April 2008.
"Giants, Fratricide, and Exile in the Narrative Technique of Beowulf", Medieval Association of Middle America, Marshall MO, February 2008.
"The Bowman’s Wedding: Archery Contest in Nuptial Narrative", Classics Occasional Papers, MU, April 2007.
Forthcoming publications:
“Ancient Visions of the Apocalypse”, forthcoming in End of Days: Popular Conceptions of the Apocalypse in Medieval and Modern Europe. McFarland, 2009.
Joseph Chase Unruh
Contact: jcu188@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics, University of Missouri, 2003
After taking some time off from studying Greek and Latin, I have returned to work on a MA in Latin with the department that first kindled my interest in Classics. Although they have changed over the years, my current interests are Latin poetry and Latin pedagogy. Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid hold a special place in my heart.
Philip Waddell
Contact: ptwpnb@mizzou.edu
B.A. History, Johns Hopkins University 2001
After graduating from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in History, I decided to study Classics. This will be my third year of graduate study at MU. My interests include Roman history and Silver Age Latin. Last spring I presented an Occasional Paper about the sexuality of Alexander the Great. I am currently working on Roman historiography centered around Tacitus.
Pierce Wade
Contact: pjwktb@mizzou.edu
B.A. Classics & English Literature, Seattle Pacific University 2007
I added a Classics Major onto my BA in English Literature early in my academic career, and have found my interest in the latter eclipsed by that of the former. After graduating with a BA in both from Seattle Pacific University, I spent a year taking extra Greek and Latin courses as a non-matriculated student at the University of Washington, while waiting tables to pay the bills (thus confirming my suspicion that "real world" jobs would never be for me). My interests now include the classical tradition, particularly reception during the transition from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and more recently the reception of Imperial Greek literature.
David A. Webb
Contact: daw262@mizzou.edu
Website: http://web.missouri.edu/~daw262/
B.A. History and Political Science, Mississippi State University 1995
M.A. Classics, University of Mississippi 1998
My interests lie mainly in Greek historiography and in Roman Greece, especially Athens and Sparta. I am also very interested in Greek archaeology and have served as the secretary/ treasurer for the Central Missouri Society of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1997-2002 as well as being a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in the summer of 1998. From January to August of 2004, I was away from Columbia as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi. I am currently writing my dissertation, a commentary on Book III of Pausanias, the Lakonika.
Recent Presentations
"Alcman's Partheneion and the Cult of Helen at Sparta" Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2004.
"Benefactors of a Wandering Temple" Rome and Achaia: Greek Culture and the Roman World, Graduate Student Conference, Columbia, Missouri, April 2003.
"The “insidiosa clementia” of Caesar in Greece" Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Southern Section, Birmingham, Alabama, October 2002.
"Archilochus Banished?" Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, Texas, April 2002.
Publications
"Thorikos: Large, Wealthy, and Forgotten," Archaeological Diggings 7 (2000): 30-31.
MA Thesis
1998 "Monumental Building in Augustan Athens." University of Mississippi.
Deanna Wesolowski
Contact: dlwxt8@mizzou.edu
B.A. Latin, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2000
M.A. Foreign Language and Linguistics - Latin, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2005
After a summer of excavating in Rome, I am very excited to call the MU Classics Department my new home. I am interested in Seneca the Younger’s treatment of Campania and also the iconography of classical mythology. This year I presented a paper at the AHAGSA conference about Seneca in Campania and also published an article about the importance of feasting at Nestor’s Bronze Age palace at Pylos.
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