Recent Doctoral Dissertations in Classics
YearLastFirstDissertation TitleAdvisor(s)Placement
2025JonesJordanThe Forgotten Promises to Phinehas: A Reception History of Numbers 25:10—13CargillDirector of Special Projects and Creative Media Producer, University of Iowa Office of Innovation
2022Hales-BrittainSaraThe Visual, The Verbal, and The Moral: Ekphrasis of Beauty in the Ancient Greek NovelsGibsonSenior Managing Editor, Wiley
2021ElliottKennethRewards for Violence: praemia in Roman DeclamationGibson 
2020SpyridakosDanaTechnical Medicine in Greek and Roman NovelsBerreyMiddle School Latin Teacher, Canterbury School
2019EspinosaVanessaMen Between Worlds: Aelius Aristides, Apuleius, Augustine, and Interdisciplinary Literature in the Second SophisticFinamoreClassics Lecturer, University of Dayton
2019MorleyRobertImagining wealth and poverty in the fictional works of Petronius and ApuleiusGibsonFunds Manager, Office of Student Financial Aid, University of Iowa
2018MarleyCaitlinSentiments, networks, literary biography: towards a mesoanalysis of Cicero's CorpusDilleyAssistant Teaching Professor, Bowling Green State University
2018SwistJeremyA principio reges: the reception of the seven kings of Rome in imperial historiography from Tiberius to TheodosiusBondAssistant Professor of Classical Studies, Michigan State University
2017FyotekTylerDeathics: Homeric Ethics as ThanatologyDilleyOwner and Psychotherapist, Therapeutic Thinking Tools
2017JonesJacquelineAt the Cliff's Edge: Studies in the Single HeroidesKettererLecturer in Classics, Baylor University
2017HorrellMatthewEpic Hyperbole in HomerKettererLatin and Greek Teacher, Baton Rouge High School
2016OverholtMichaelThe Practice of ἌΣΚΗΣΙΣ in Galen’s Avoiding DistressFinamoreFounder, Anabasis LLC
Chief Content Officer, Linked Enterprises
2015BurnsAaronDiatribe and Plutarch’s Practical EthicsFinamoreDesktop Build Technician, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2015RoseThomasA Historical Commentary on Plutarch’s Life of DemetriusFinamoreAssociate Professor, Randolph-Macon College
2014PriceSharadaon Lucian's Dialogues of the CourtesansGibsonLatin Teacher, Casady School (Oklahoma City, OK)
2013SamsonLindsayThe Philosophy of Desire in Theocritus' IdyllsDepew 
2013LangsethJoshuaKnowing God:  A Study of the Argument of Numenius of Apameia's On the GoodFinamoreAdjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa; Adjunct Instructor, Coe College
2013KoenigCharlouCommentary on Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book 2Gibson 
2012PreusChristianThe Art of Aeschines: Anti-Rhetorical Argumentation in the Speeches of AeschinesGibsonEntered Concordia Theological Seminary
2010ThorneMarkLucan's Cato: The Defeat of Victory and the Triumph of MemoryGreenVisiting Assistant Professor, Luther College
2009GruberGwendolyn M.Medium and Message in Lucretius' "honey" analogyFinamoreLatin Teacher, Aristoi Classical Academy (Katy, TX)
2008GruberHeather WaddellThe women of Greek declamation and the Reception of Comic StereotypesGibsonAssistant Professor Concordia College
2007AhoLara K.Theocritus' graces (Idyll 16): Text and translation with introduction and commentaryDepew 
2006SimmonsRobert HolschuhReflections of a Crisis of Athenian Leadership in Euripides' Last PlaysKettererAssociate Professor, Monmouth College
2005SkinnerPamelaThe Cartulary of Clairmarais, A Monastery of Cistercian Nuns at Reims, France c. 1220-1460:  Edition and CommentaryGreenLatin Teacher, Clayton High School (Clayton, Missouri)
2004MontgomeryPaul AndrewThe limits of identity in Sallust’s Bellum IugurthinumGreenAssociate Professor, Samford University
2004ScheckThomasThe Reception of Origen's Exegesis of Romans in the Latin West Associate Professor of Theology, Ave Maria College
2003NoeDavidOikeiosis, Ratio, and Natura:  The Stoic Challenge to Cicero's Academism in De Finibus and Natura DeorumFinamoreAssociate Professor, Calvin University
2002HuskeySamuelOvid's Tristia I and III: An intertextual KatabasisDettmerAssociate Professor, University of Oklahoma
2001LakeKeeley K.Virgil's Dreams and their Literary PredecessorsKetterer 
2000SvetoslavaSlavevaEnnead VI.6:  The Concept of Multiplicity as Number in Plotinus' Universal HierarchFinamoreAssociate Professor, Florida State University