Ohio State has one of the leading graduate programs in Classics in the nation. We are proud of the great success of our students in securing full-time employment after graduation, including numerous tenure-track academic positions in Classics.
Miranda Amey (2024), course lecturer at The Ohio State University Department of Classics
Ben John (2024), course lecturer at The Ohio State University Department of Classics
Colleen Kron (2024) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Erfurt
Carmen Romano (2021: “And in whom do you most delight?” Poets, Im/mortals, and the Homeric Hymns) Visiting Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
Dannu Hutwohl (2020: The Birth of Sacrifice: Ritualized Deities in Eastern Mediterranean Mythology) Cultural Program Co-ordinator, Colorado College
James Wolfe (2020: Bēth Rhōmāyē: Being and Belonging in Syriac in the Late Roman Empire) Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan
Marcus Ziemann (2019: "He Brought a Message Back from Before the Flood": The Iliad and Neo-Assyrian Ideology and Propaganda) Postdoctoral Scholar at Florida State University's Department of Classics
Alice Gaber (2019: The Sublime and the Stubborn: Chorality as Narrative Resource) University of Wisconsin, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Teaching Faculty
William Little (2019: Renaissance Commentaries on the Epistula Sapphus), The Ohio State University, Department of Classics, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Margaret Elsner (2019: Skin, Mind, and Genitals: Animalized Women in Classical and Contemporary Literature), Upper School English and Latin Teacher at Saint Stephen's Episcopal School in Bradenton, Florida
Brandon Bourgeois (2018: Roman Imperial Accessions: Politics, Constituencies, and Communicative Acts), Assistant Professor of Classics at USC Dornsife
Kathryn Caliva Smart (2018: Prayer and Pragmatic Speech Acts in Greek Poetry), Assistant Professor of History at St. Bonaventure, a tenure track position
Scott Kennedy (2018: How to write history: Thucydides and Herodotus in the ancient rhetorical tradition), Assistant Professor, Bilkent University
Warren Huard (2018: Herakles and Dionysos in Archaic Greece) Instructor, University of Winnipeg
Hank Blume (2017: Fear, Anger, and Hatred in Livy's Account of the Struggle of the Orders). Assistant Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University
Laura Marshall (2017: Uncharted territory: Receptions of philosophy in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica), Assistant Professor of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Aaron Palmore (2016: Desire Interrupted: Erotics, Politics, and Poetics in Horace, Odes 4) Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola University Maryland
Quinn Griffin (2016: Embodying Diotima: Classical Exempla and the Learned Lady), Assistant Professor of Classics, Grand Valley State University
Marion Kruse (2015: The politics of Roman memory in the age of Justinian), Associate Professor of Classics, University of Cincinnati
Adam Rappold (2015: The shadow of the polis: A synchronic and diachronic examination of the Skira festival in Athens), Assistant Professor of Classics at Brock University
Joseph Danielewicz (2015: Parody as pedagogy in Plato’s dialogues), Columbus School for Girls, Upper School Latin instructor
Corey Hackworth (Classics, 2015): Visiting Assistant Professor at Baylor University
Hanne Eisenfeld (2014: One mostly dead: Immortality and related states in Pindar’s victory odes), Associate Professor of Classics, Boston College
Luke Gorton (2014: Through the grapevine: Tracing the origins of wine), Visiting Lecturer of Classics and Religious Studies, University of New Mexico
Benjamin McCloskey (2013: Xenophon's Kyrou Amathia: Deceitful Narrative and The Birth of Tyranny) Assistant Professor, Kansas State University.
Craig Jendza (2013: Euripidean Paracomedy), Associate Professor at Denison University
Sam Flores (2013: The roles of Solon in Plato’s Dialogues), Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Gabe Fuchs (2013: Renaissance receptions of Ovid’s Tristia), Upper School Latin Teacher, Wakefield School
Maxwell Teitel Paule (2012: Canidia, Rome’s first witch), Associate Professor at Earlham College