Education:  Ph.D. Greek and Latin, OSU

BA Archaeology, BS Art (Painting), University of Evansville. 

Areas of research: Ancient Medicine, Religions of the Mediterranean, Mythology, Greek Lyric, Augustan Poetry

Advisor: Dr. Fritz Graf

Recent activity

• Articles
  • 2025 “Zeus’ Proxy Womb: The Myth of Dionysus and Alternative Medicine in Soranus' Gynecology”, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 
  • [forthcoming] “magna parens terra est: Gaia and Gynecology” for History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy Edited Volume, Palgrave Macmillan
• Conferences
  • April 2024      “The Gynecology of Gaia”, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, MO
  • October 2023 “Fertile as the Earth: Wetness and the Womb in Greco-Roman Mythology”, History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy (Richard R. Baker Colloquium), Dayton, OH
  • March 2023   “Zeus’ Proxy Womb”, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Provo, UT
  • May 2022        “A Vestal’s Security: The Vestal Virgins and the Virgin Disease”, Feminism & Classics Conference, Wake Forest University
  • April 2022       “Under Enfeebled Limbs: tenuis sub artus and the Rendering of Sappho 31”, Midwest Classical Literature Consortium, OSU 
  • 2020-2021       President, “Sense (and) Perception”, Annual Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, The Ohio State University