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, "Into the Earth or Into the Womb": Medico-Mythic Gynecology): Lecturer, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
Rachael Knodel (2024, Illuminating the Abyss: The Divine Underworld in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter): Teacher, St. Charles Preparatory School
Ben John (2024, The Homeric Psychology of Parmenidean Meditation): Lecturer, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
Colleen Kron (2024, How to Build Belief with Blocks: The Religious Affordance of Greco-Roman Funerary Inscriptions): Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
Carmen Romano (2021, “And in whom do you most delight?” Poets, Im/mortals, and the Homeric Hymns): Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Dannu Hutwohl (2020, The Birth of Sacrifice: Ritualized Deities in Eastern Mediterranean Mythology): Cultural Program Coordinator, Colorado College
James Wolfe (2020, Bēth Rhōmāyē: Being and Belonging in Syriac in the Late Roman Empire): Postdoctoral Fellow, 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, Department of Classics, Florida State University
Alice Gaber (2019, The Sublime and the Stubborn: Chorality as Narrative Resource): Teaching Faculty, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Wisconsin
William Little (2019, Renaissance Commentaries on the Epistula Sapphus): Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
Margaret Elsner (2019, Skin, Mind, and Genitals: Animalized Women in Classical and Contemporary Literature): Upper School English and Latin Teacher, Saint Stephen's Episcopal School, Bradenton, Florida
Brandon Bourgeois (2018, Roman Imperial Accessions: Politics, Constituencies, and Communicative Acts): Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California
Kathryn Caliva Smart (2018, Prayer and Pragmatic Speech Acts in Greek Poetry): Assistant Professor of History, St. Bonaventure University
Scott Kennedy (2018, How to write history: Thucydides and Herodotus in the ancient rhetorical tradition): Assistant Professor, Programs in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas, Bilkent University
Warren Huard (2018, Herakles and Dionysos in Archaic Greece): Instructor, Department of Classics, University of Winnipeg
Hank Blume (2017, Fear, Anger, and Hatred in Livy's Account of the Struggle of the Orders): Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages & Cultures – Classics, 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): Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Classics, 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, Brock University
Joseph Danielewicz (2015, Parody as pedagogy in Plato’s Dialogues): Upper School Latin Instructor, Columbus School for Girls
Corey Hackworth (2015, Reading Athenaios' Epigraphical Hymn to Apollo: Critical Edition and Commentaries): Visiting Lecturer in Classics, 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): Senior Lecturer of Classics, University of New Mexico
Benjamin McCloskey (2013, Xenophon's Kyrou Amathia: Deceitful Narrative and The Birth of Tyranny): Associate 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): Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, College of Charleston
Gabe Fuchs (2013, Renaissance Receptions of Ovid’s Tristia): Director, University School, University of Tulsa
Maxwell Teitel Paule (2012, Canidia, Rome’s First Witch): Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor Ancient and Classical Studies, Earlham College