Prize Winners Past and Present
2022: Sarah Eisenlohr
Area of Concentration: Classical philology, broadly concerning sex and gender across genres. In particular, women’s trauma, sexual violence, prostitution, second stage warfare, and marriage. Main genres of interest are Greek historiography, Roman Comedy, and Augustan literature.
Dissertation working title: “The Trauma of Ovid’s Mythic Women: Rape, Captivity, Silence”
Dissertation director: Sharon James
2021: S. Elizabeth Needham
MA under Patricia Rosenmeyer, MA title is “Here and Now and Then and There: The Construction of Imagined Space in Sappho”
2020: Amanda Ball
Pursuing a PhD in Classical Archaeology, on the topic of “Material Expressions of Culture Contact in Coastal Aegean Thrace”
2021: India Natterman
Pursuing a PhD in Classics under Sharon James, working title of dissertation is “Mismarked Flesh: The Interpretability of the Male Body in Julio-Claudian Literature”
2020: Hannah Sorscher
Pursuing a PhD in Classics under Sharon James, working title of dissertation is “Unconventional Families in Roman Comedy”
2019: Nathan Smolin
Pursuing a PhD in Classics (Historical Emphasis), dissertation currently named “Christ the Emperor: Roman Imperial Ideology and Theology in the 4th century”
Previous Winners

Pursuing a PhD in Classics under Patricia Rosenmeyer, dissertation currently named “Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns”.
2014: Erika L. Weiberg
PhD under William Race, dissertation title is “The Trauma at Home: Wives of Returning Veterans in Greek Tragedy”
2011: Derick Alexandre
MA under Peter Smith, MA title is “Prognosis and Therapy in the Hippocratic Corpus”
2010: Theodore H. M. Gellar-Goad
PhD under James O’Hara, dissertation title is “Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire”
2008: Derek Smith
PhD under Peter Smith, dissertation title is “Horror in Euripides’ Hecuba and Heracles”
2006: Arum Park
PhD under Peter Smith, dissertation title is “Truth, Falsehood, and Reciprocity in Pindara and Aeschylus”
2001: Patrick Miller
MA under Philip Stadter, MA title is “The Body and the Body Politic: Disease in Hippocrates and Thucydides”
2019: Sarah Hilker
Pursuing a PhD in Classical Archaeology under Donald Haggis, dissertation title is “From Houses to Communities: A Consideration of Mycenaean”
2018: Emma Buckingham
Dissertation is “Identity and Material Culture in the Interplay of Locals and Greek Settlers in Sicily in the Early Archaeic Period”
2018: Katie Tardio
Pursuing a PhD in Classical Archaeology under Jennifer Gates-Foster and B. Arbuckle, dissertation currently named “Roman Conquest and Changes in Animal Economy in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula”
Previous Winners

PhD under Jennifer Gates-Foster, dissertation title is “Public Entertainment Venues as Urban Network Actors in Roman Macedonia and Thrace”
2009: Elizabeth Robinson
PhD under Nicola Terrenato, dissertation title is The Impact of Roman Expansion in Central-Southern Italy: The Case of Larinum”
2021: Amanda Ball
Pursuing a PhD in Classical Archaeology, dissertation currently named “The Roman Karystia”
2020: Brandon Baker
Pursuing a PhD in Classical Archaeology, on the topic of “Material Expressions of Culture Contact in Coastal Aegean Thrace”
Previous winners

PhD under Donald Haggis, dissertation title is “Discontinuous Houses, Settlement Structures, and Social Organization in Late Early Helladic and Middle Helladic Greece”
2009: Elizabeth Robinson
PhD under Nicola Terrenato, dissertation title is The Impact of Roman Expansion in Central-Southern Italy: The Case of Larinum”
2019: Brian McPhee – Arthur Ross Rome Prize
Pursuing a PhD in Classics under Patricia Rosenmeyer, dissertation named “Blessed Heroes: Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns”
2011: Elizabeth Robinson – Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
PhD under Nicola Terrenato, dissertation title is The Impact of Roman Expansion in Central-Southern Italy: The Case of Larinum”
2017: Will Begley
PhD under Robert Babcock, dissertation title is “The Avignon Manuscript and the Transmission of Rufinus’ Translation of Origen’s Peri Archon”
2016: Cicek Beeby
PhD under Donald Haggis, dissertation title is “Spatial Narratives of Mortuary Landscapes in Early Iron Age Greece”
2011: Elizabeth Greene
PhD under Riess, dissertation title is “Women and Families in the Auxiliary Military Communities of the Roman West in the First and Second Centuries A.D.”
Previous Winners

PhD under James O’Hara, dissertation title is “Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire”
2000: Shane Hawkins
1999: Eric Dugdale