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Outstanding Undergraduates

Murphey Hall continues to be home for high-achieving undergraduates!
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South has honored Caitlin Hines with a Manson A. Stewart Scholarship. One of six undergraduates recognized for being "outstanding young Classicists," Caitlin will use the $1,000 award to further her Classical studies here.
Also, Caitlin, Rachel Mazzara, and Henry Ross were inducted into the University's Phi Beta Kappa chapter for their exceptional academics.
We congratulate these promising juniors for their great accomplishments!

AIA's Best Site

The department is excited to share that Prof. Donald Haggis has garnered the Archaeological Institute of America's Best Practices in Site Preservation Award for the Azoria Project in Crete, Greece. Co-director Margaret Mook and Prof. Haggis work with local specialists to preserve the site as they excavate, creating a sustainable eco-archaeological tourist site. We applaud their innovative work, and invite you to learn more about and to support the Azoria Project.

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    Research

    Bound copies of all honors theses may be found and read in 217 Murphey Hall.

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH BY DECADE

    1990 | 2000

    Student Name Title Year Defended Committee
    Balot, Ryan K. Epicurean Friendship: Theory and Practice 1990
    Avery, Jonathan Xerxes' Decision to Invade Greece: An Examination of Herodotos' Histories, Book7, Chapters 1-18 1990
    Wilson, Van J. Breeding and amor, Pasturage and morbus: Vergil's use of Varro's Rerum rusticarum libri tres in his third Georgic 1992
    de Grummond, Elizabeth Chambless Romanization and Urbanization of Lugdunum: The Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum Through the Julio-Claudian Period 1993
    Walker, Tawana A. Strong Women of the Silver Age: Assets or Liabilities? 1993
    Burns, Bryan E. The Martial Use of the Early Mycenaean Chariot and Its Associated Weaponry 1993
    Berner, August J. Vesical calculus: Aulus Cornelius Celsus's Operation for Bladder Stone 1995
    Black, Sarah John Dryden's Translations of Horace's Odes 1.9 and 3.29 1996
    Yavenditti, James A. Monumenta Hadriana: An Examination of the Hadrianic Building Projects in Athens 1997
    Benefiel, Rebecca Ruth J. Municipium Saepinatium: A Study in Small Town Life of the Roman Empire 1997
    Greenspan, Geri Apsidal Buildings in Early Iron Age Greece 1997
    Gelb, Susan Dana Archaic Doric Temples in South Italy 1997
    Spradley, Kelly Guarding the Frontier: The Original Garrisons of Hadrian's Wall Forts 1997
    Leftt, Jeremy Interconnections: the Epithet in the Iliad and the Physical Tag in War and Peace 1998
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    Rogers, Sarah Alison Rape and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses 2000 Mack, Eric Downing, Reckford
    Butler, Margaret Erwin Approaches to Geometric Decoration in 8th c. Phrygia 2000 Sams, Sturgeon, Haggis
    Thomas, Jennifer Elizabeth The Language of Friendship: Obligation and Emotion in Horace's Epistles I 2001 Reckford, Mack, James
    Dickson, Katherine Anne Thucydides and his Cold War Interpreters 2001 Stadter, Race, Smith
    Carella, John Francis Divine Causes in Herodotus and Thucydides 2001 Race, Stadter, Smith
    Urquhart, Lela Manning The Reuse and Continuity of Punic Sanctuaries in Sicily 2002 Terrenato, Haggis, Smith
    Raines, Meganne Marie Sculptural Decoration at the Church of Hagios Polyeuktos in Constantinople 2002 Connor, Sturgeon, Sams
    Locklear, Cole Garrett Construction of Character in Cicero's Pro Ligario 2002 Wooten, Race, West
    Pilkington, Nathan Laughlin The Gask Ridge and Stanegate Frontiers: a new history and analysis of Roman and native interaction in Britain 2003 Talbert, Terrenato, Houston
    Levin-Richardson, Sarah Adina The Representation of Women in the Mosaics of Saint Demetrios in Thessaloniki 2003 Connor, James, Sams, Dorothy Verkerk
    Kirklin, Julia Anne Sheep and Shepherd Imagery in Literature: Homer Through the Early Christian Period 2003 Race, Reckford, Lafferty
    Carreker, Justin Michael What's Truly Good and What is Good in Show: Juvenal's Orator and Johnson's Scholar 2003 Reckford, Lafferty, Thomas Stumpf
    Opitz, Rachel Shira Modeling Donoratico: GIS and Digital Modeling in Classical Archaeology 2003 Terrenato, Haggis, Vincas Steponaitis
    Ratliff, Melissa Leigh A Rare Find at Donoratico: A Mortar Mixer Dating to the Fourth or Fifth century A.D. A review of the Comparanda and implications of this find for Donoratico 2004 Terrenato, Houston, Lafferty
    DeWeese, David Matthew Time in the Gospel of John: An Exploration 2004 Race, Lafferty, Smith
    Huntley, Katherine V. Hilltop Settlement Patterns in Northern Tuscany during Antiquity and the Middle Ages 2005 Terrenato, Haggis, Dorothy Verkerk
    Austin, Margaret R. Plutarch on the Isolated Tyrant 2006 Stadter, Wooten, Riess
    Smith, Joshua Hospitium an Pathos in Vergil's Aeneid 2007 O'Hara, James, Smith
    Walker, Austin Prophecy's Complex Relationship with the Mortal and Divine Realms: A Tracing of the Prophetic Language within the Oedipus Tyrannus 2007 Race, Smith, Holmes
    Barber, Cary The Roman Renegade: Determining Morality through its Antithesis 2007 Talbert, Wooten, Naiden
    Hopper, Thomas Warren Colonialism and the "Other" in Homer, George Sandys, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2009 James, Barbour, Moskal
    Thomas, Tristram Rennie The Ideal Statesman: Cicero and His Strategic Alliance with Octavian to Restore the Republic 2009 Rives, Wooten, Riess
    Spelman, Henry Lawlor A Commentary on Pindar's Nemean 10 2010 Race, Smith, Goslin
    Fata, Ashleigh Elizabeth Who's Laughing Now? Perception, Comedy, Suffering in Two Plays of Euripides 2011 Goslin and Race
    Hege, Sam Tyler Agathon's Unfulfilled Potential: A Study of Agathon's contribution to the Symposium and its critique of Athenian Education 2011 Boyle, Lesher, Goslin
    Rich, Hannah Louise Venerit si iste furor: Erotic Violence in the Poetry of Tibullus 2011 James, Keith, O'Hara

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