Student and Faculty Work

Senior Work

Fabien Achinda ‘25 “The Zeitgeist of the Roman People During the Fall of the Roman Republic”

Paulo Costa ‘25 “Discourses on the Last Quadricentury of the New City: Studies in the Relationship between Carthaginian Generals and Civil Government, 550-146 BC”

Grace Hering ‘22 “Cicero’s Social Citizenship: Extra-legal Considerations in the Pro Archia and Pro Balbo.”

Aiden Mattingly ‘22 “Neque Mulier, Nec Puer, Nec Vir: The Ambiguous Construction of the Galli in Late Republican and Early Imperial Poetry”

Mary Catherine Carroll ’21 “The Cause and Effect of the Plague of Athens”

Hannah Resnick ’21 “Ab lingua condita: Varro’s Origins of Latin”

Faculty Work

Chaplin, J. D., Garrison, I. P., & Stray, C. (2025). Commenting on the Past: Essays in honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus (p. 314 pp.). De Gruyter.

Collaborative Research

At times, faculty will seek student assistance for their research projects through grants from the Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund or the Faculty Research Assistant Fund. Such work provides students with an excellent introduction into how research is conducted in the field of classics.

Past Examples

• Margaret Clark ’11 worked with Professor Star on a book on Seneca and Petronius.
• Jackie Montagne ’09 worked with Professor Ganiban on Lucan and Statius.
• Rebecca Scholtz ’06 worked with Professor Chaplin on a book on Livy.
• Carolyn Gersh ’04 worked with Professor Witkin on Greek tragedy project.

Theater Productions

Dramatic productions were a central part of ancient Greek and Roman culture, and our students and faculty have been involved in several recent classical productions on campus.

In the spring of 2008, Professors Pavlos Sfyroeras and Claudio Medeiros (theatre) cotaught a course titled Drama in Performance. In association with it, a production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was staged and was a great success.

In the spring of 2009, a student who had studied Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin with Professor Chris Star directed a production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.