This summer, we had six students successfully defend their dissertations! Congrats to Dr. Miranda Amey ("Into the Womb or Into the Earth: Medico-mythic Gynecology," advisor Fritz Graf), Dr. Matthew Maynard ("Hymnic Ecology: An Ecocritical Reading of the Homeric Hymn to Pan," advisor Sarah Iles Johnston), Dr. Colleen Kron (How to Build Belief with Blocks: The Religious Affordance of Greco-Roman Funerary Inscriptions," advisor Fritz Graf), Dr. Benjamin John (The Homeric Psychology of Parmenidean Meditation," advisors Tom Hawkins and Sarah Iles Johnston), Dr. Rachael Knodel ("Illuminating the Abyss: The Divine Underworld in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter), and Dr. Yelena Erez ("Poetic Health: Literary and Medical Traditions in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica," advisor Benjamin Acosta-Hughes). Congrats again to all of you!
This fall, we are also welcoming five new graduate students! Welcome Esteban Arango Casas, Rachel Gastrich, Noah Hall, Thomas McMath, and Lucianna Parr!
