Classical Studies

In its Honors Program the Classical Studies Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2012-2013

• Brett Charles Evans, "Looking for Reality in Latin Love Elegy" (Highest Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + William Hutton, Colleen Kennedy

2011-2012

• No Honors this year

2010-2011

• Brent Frederick Bickings, "Was the Western Diaspora Cut off from Israel? A Case Study of Sardis and Hamath Tiberias" (Honors)
  Michael Daise + John Donahue, Julie Galambush
• Samuel David McVane, "The Bare Necessities: Ascetic Indian Sages in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius" (High Honors)
  William Hutton + John Donahue, Kevin Vose
• Irene Rebecca Morrison-Moncure, "13 Recommendations for the Teaching of Elementary Latin at the Collegiate Level" (Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + William Hutton, Jennifer Taylor

2009-10

• Megan Elizabeth Shuler, "Shedding Light on Roman Social Life: An Integrative Approach to Domestic Space at Pompii and Karanis" (High Honors)
  Molly Swetnam-Burland + John Donahue, Mary Voigt
  


2008-09

• No Honors students this year

2007-08

• Barbara Ann Blythe, "The Rape of the Bough: The Persephone Myth in Vergil's Aeneid" (High Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + John Chesley, Paula Blank (defended December 2007)
• Jessica Laura Lamont, "Sacred Space and Healing: The Cult of Asklepios in Athens" (High Honors)
  Barbette Spaeth + Linda Reilly, Mary Voigt

2006-07

• Emily Anne Rossow, "Ranting and Reading: Stand-Up Comedy and the Satiric Recitatio" (Honors)
  John Donahue + John Chesley, Gary Green

2005-06

• Julie Colaneri, "The Sicilian Tyrants: Greek or Not?" (Honors)
  William Hutton + Linda Reilly, Ted Perlmutter
• William Hall
  Georgia Irby-Massie + William Hutton, George Greenia
• Leigh Oldershaw, "Roman Domestic Religion: An Archaeological Examination of the Domestic Divinities Depicted in Pompeian Lararium Paintings" (High Honors)
  Barbette Spaeth + Linda Reilly, Michael Blakey
• Timothy Treem
  Georgia Irby-Massie + John Chesley, Noah Lemos

2004-05

• William Burghart
  John Donahue + John Oakley, Phil Daileader
• Julie Mills
  James Baron + Georgia Irby-Massie, Noah Lemos
• Robert Schwieger
  William Hutton + Linda Reilly, John Conlee