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Classical Studies

In its Honors Program the Classical Studies Department awards one level of Honors to student research projects. (Note: prior to Fall 2022 Highest Honors and High Honors were awarded as well.) 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

2024-2025

• Sarah Catherine Long,  (Honors) 
  John Donahue + Jessica Stephens, Andrew Tobolowsky
• Michael Christopher Pagano. (Honors)  
  Jessica Stephens + William Hutton, Jonathan Glasser
• Maia Tindall, (Honors) 
  Jessica Paga + William Hutton, Joanna Homrighausen

2023-2024

• Julia Isabel Bowers,  (Honors) 
  Jessica Paga + Molly Swetnam-Burland, Lu Ann Homza
• Isabella Mae Kershner,  (Honors) 
  Jessica Stephens + Alan Braddock, Mitchell Brown
• Madeleine Perry Blue Rubin,  (Honors) 
  John Donahue + Catherine Forestell, Jessica Stephens
• Ian Scott Wilson,  (Honors) 
  Molly Swetnam-Burland + Jessica Paga, Alexander Angelov

2022-2023

• Brooke Elizabeth Braden, "" (Honors) 
  Vassiliki Panoussi + Michael Halleran, Adam Potkay
• Ivana Sylvia Genov, "" (Honors) 
  Georgia Irby + Molly Swetnam-Burland, Cristina Stancioiu
• Georgia Elizabeth Thoms,"" (Honors) 
   Jessica Stephens + Vassiliki Panoussi, James Skelton
• Ryan Louis Alexander Vincent, "" (Honors) 
  Jessica Stephens + William Hutton, Jeremy Pope

2021-2022

• Meaghan Corcoran, "" (Honors)
  William Hutton + Michael Halleran, John Lombardini
• Sydney Kennedy, "" (Highest Honors)
  Jessica Paga + Jessica Stephens, Christina Stancioiu

2020-2021

• Ashton Rodgers, "" (Honors)
  Molly Swetnam-Burland + Molly Swetnam-Burland, Jessica Stephens, Michael Daise
• Sophia Warnement, "" (Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + Molly Swetnam-Burland, Jennifer Gülly

2019-2020

• No Honors students this year

2018-19

• Rebecca Gaborek, ""
  Molly Swetnam-Burland + Lily Panoussi, Brad Weiss
• Lillian Waddill, ""
  Vassiliki Panoussi + Molly Swetnam-Burland, Dan Cristol
• Robert Yancey, ""
  William Hutton + Jessica Paga, Leslie Cochrane

2017-18

• Rachel Dubit, "" (High Honors) 
  Molly Swetnam-Burland + Sergio Ferrarese, William Hutton
• Nicholas Rudman, "" (Highest Honors) 
  Georgia Irby + Robert Nichols, Erin Minear

2016-17

• Abigail Simon, "Texisse and Nudare: Sulpicia's Poetics and the Fashioning of Roman Elegy" (Honors) 
  Vassiliki Panoussi + John Donahue, Nathan Rabalais
• Lauren Wood, "" (Honors) 
  William Hutton + Vassiliki Panoussi, Suzanne Hagedorn

2015-16

• Dereck Basinger, "" (High Honors)
  Georgia Irby + William Hutton, James Armstrong

2014-15

• Maura Brennan, (High Honors)
   William Hutton + John Oakley and Sibel Zandi-Sayek
• Victoria Jansson, (High Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + Lily Panoussi, William Hutton and Varun Begley

2013-14

• No Honors students this year

2012-13

• Brett Evans,  (Highest Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + William Hutton, Colleen Kennedy

2011-12

• No Honors students this year

2010-11

• Brent Bickings, "" (Honors)
  Michael Daise + John Donahue, Julie Galambush
• Samuel McVane, (High Honors)
  William Hutton + John Donahue, Kevin Vose
• Irene Morrison-Moncure, (Honors)
  Vassiliki Panoussi + William Hutton, Jennifer Taylor

2009-10

2008-09

• No Honors students this year

2007-08

• Barbara 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 Lamont, "Sacred Space and Healing: The Cult of Asklepios in Athens" (High Honors)
  Barbette Spaeth + Linda Reilly, Mary Voigt

2006-07

• Emily 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