In our graduate program, you can:
work with faculty with wide-ranging strengths across the literature, history and culture of the ancient world and its receptions:
- Greek literature, especially Archaic and Classical (Folit-Weinberg, Iles Johnston, Munteanu, Parmenter), Hellenistic (Acosta-Hughes), Second Sophistic (T. Hawkins), Late Antique (Ross), and Modern (Anagnostou, Jusdanis, Constantinidis)
- Latin literature, especially Republican and early imperial (Fertik, Gianni, J. Hawkins), Late Antique (Ross), Medieval (Coulson, Jones, Lockett), and Neo-Latin (Parmenter)
- ancient social and political history, with particular emphasis on the Greek world (Anderson, Parmenter), the Roman household and family (Fertik, Gianni, Sessa), and late antiquity (Ross, Sessa)
- mythologies and religions of the ancient Mediterranean (Folit-Weinberg, Gianni, Iles Johnston, Rask), including Christianity (Brakke, Harrill, Sessa) and Judaism (Swartz)
- archaeology and art history, especially Greek, Roman, and Etruscan (Fullerton, Parmenter, Rask)
- epigraphy (Al-Jallad, Gianni) and paleography (Coulson, Grotans, Jones, Lockett)
- philosophy and intellectual history, including ancient science and medicine (Folit-Weinberg, J. Hawkins, Munteanu)
- classical receptions (Fertik, Folit-Weinberg, T. Hawkins, Munteanu, Parmenter), with particular attention to American, Caribbean, and European contexts, and to Black Classicisms
- race, ethnicity, and gender in the ancient world and its reception, in disciplinary histories, and in modern history (Anagnostou, Fertik, Gianni, T. Hawkins, Parmenter, Sessa)
You can also:
- enjoy exceptional opportunities for studying ancient religions, epigraphy and paleography, ancient Near East, and Modern Greek
- participate in new initiatives centering race, ethnicity, and gender
- receive five years of guaranteed funding (with possibility of extension)
- enjoy light teaching assignments in the first year, and an introductory Proseminar to launch your studies
- receive formal training in pedagogy to support your role as an instructor
- access funding for conference travel and opportunities for awards and prizes
- benefit from a professionalization seminar as a dissertator to support your entry to the job market
- connect with other departments and centers on campus:
Full information about our PhD program is available here.
For any enquiries about applications, please contact Prof. Harriet Fertik (fertik.1@osu.edu), Director of Graduate Admissions or Prof. Alan Ross (ross.2005@osu.edu), Director of Graduate Studies.