Ph.D. Alumni and Dissertations
(CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF HISTORY RELATED DISSERTATIONS)
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| Dissertations currently in progress (2006/2007) |
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| J. Matthew Harrington - Mens Sana: authorized Emotions and the Construction of Identity and Deviance ins the Saturae of Juvenal |
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| Geoff Maturen - Hellenism and the Cultural Capital: Lucian's Critique of Imperial Greek Culture |
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| Jason Parnell -
Neoplatonist Theurgy and Christian Mystagogy |
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| Amanda Regan - The Geography of Narrative in Apollonius of Rhodes |
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Mike Sampson - Themis in Sophocles |
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| (Information concerning the whereabouts of our alumni is current to the best of our knowledge. Please send corrections or updates to classics@umich.edu. For an alphabetical listing by last name, click here. For dissertations in classical archaeology, click here). |
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| 2007 |
| Jake MacPhail - The Fragments of Porphyry's Homeric Questions (a new critical edition) |
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| Chad Schroeder - Hesiod in the Hellenistic Imagination |
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| 2006 |
| Kate Bosher |
| (currently at Northwestern University) |
| Theater of the Periphery: the social and political history of early theater in Sicily |
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| Adam Kemezis |
| (currently at University of Alberta) |
| The Roman Past under the Severans: Cassius Dio, Philostrartus and Herodian |
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| 2005 |
| Kris Fletcher |
| (currently at
Louisiana State University) |
| Ovid, Mythography, and the Translation of Myth |
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| Patrick Hogan |
| (currently at Hillsdale College) |
| A Terrible Passion and a Marvelous Love: Greco-Roman Education and Elite Self-Presentation in the High Empire |
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| Bernd Steinbock |
| (currently at
University of Western Ontario) |
| Social Memory in 4th Century Athenian Public Discourse |
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| 2004 |
| Lauren E. Caldwell |
| (currently at Wesleyan University) |
| The Female Transition to Adulthood in the Early Roman Empire |
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| Kendra Eshleman |
| (currently at Skidmore College) |
| Neither Outside nor Inside: Becoming Heretical in Second-Century Christianity |
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| John A. Lobur |
| (currently at University of Mississippi) |
| Consensus and Concordia in the Formation of the Roman Principate and Their Resonance in Early Imperial Prose |
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2003 |
| Timothy B.Allison |
| (currently employed in the private sector) |
| Aeschylean Stylistics: A Study of Linguistic Variation |
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| 2002 |
| Rosemary L. Moore |
| (currently at University of Iowa) |
| The Art of Command: The Roman Army General and His Troops, 135 BC-138 AD |
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| 2001 |
| John P. Given III |
| (currently at East Carolina University) |
| Intellectual Poets in Theory and On Stage: Euripides, Aristophanes, Protagoras |
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| Robert C. Caldwell III |
| (currently at Wesleyan University) |
| Between State and Steppe: New Evidence for Society in Sixth-Century Southern Transjordan |
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| 2000 |
| Jeremy G. Taylor |
| Framing the Past: The Roots of Greek Chronography |
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| Darren B. Keefe |
| (currently at University School, Cleveland) |
| Defining Ambiguity: A Study of Lucan's Poetics |
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| David D. Phillips |
| (currently at University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Homicide, Wounding, and Battery in the Fourth-Century Attic Orators |
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| 1999 |
| David E. Kutzko |
| (currently at Western Michigan University) |
| Herodas, Mime, and Comedy: Tradition and Reception in Mimiamboi 6 and 7 |
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| J.H. Kim On Chong-Gossard |
| (currently at University of Melbourne, Australia) |
| Between Song and Silence: Gender and Communication in the Plays of Euripides |
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| Joseph L. Rife |
| (currently at Macalester College) |
| Death, Ritual and Memory in Greek Society during the Early and Middle Roman Empire |
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| David A. Guinee |
| (currently at DePauw University) |
| The Roman Argonautica: Valerius Flaccus and the Epic Tradition |
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| Christopher L. H. Barnes |
| (currently at Brooklyn College) |
| Tarentum Victum: Processes of Evolution |
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| Stephen Rex Stem |
| (currently at University of California, Davis) |
| Cicero and the Legacy of Cato Uticensis |
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| Patrick J. E. McFadden |
| (currently at St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, TN) |
| The Discourse Function of Discontinous Noun Phrases in Latin: A Discourse-Pragmatic Approach to a Word-Order Pattern |
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| 1998 |
| John D. Muccigrosso |
| (currently at Drew University) |
| Factional Competition and Monumental Construction in Mid-Republican Rome |
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| Molly Pasco-Pranger |
| (currently at University of Mississippi) |
| Conditor Anni: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Julio-Claudian Calendar |
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| Kristina L. Milnor |
| (currently at Columbia University) |
| Suis Omnia Tuta Locis: Women, Place, and Public Life in the Age of Augustus |
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| Brian K. Harvey |
| (currently at Kent State University) |
| The Nature of the Roman Monarchy in the Late First/Early Second Centuries A.D.: The Reigns of Nerva and Trajan to the Acquisition of Arabia |
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| 1997 |
| Donka D. Markus |
| (currently at University of Michigan) |
| The Politics of Entertainment: Tradition and Romanization in Statius: Thebaid |
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| Susan H. Prince |
| (currently at University of Cincinnati) |
| Antisthenes on Language, Thought and Culture |
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| 1996 |
| Mark Buchan |
| (currently at Princeton University) |
| Self as Cipher: Language and Identity in Homer |
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| Daniel B. McGlathery |
| Petronius and Neronian Literary Ideology |
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| Robert J. Sklenar |
| (currently at University of Tennessee) |
| Virtus in Lucan |
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| Clifford C. Ando |
| (currently at University of Southern California) |
| Communis patria |
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| Matthew A. Kraus |
| (currently at Wright State University) |
| Jerome's Translation of the Book of Exodus Iuxta Hebraeos in Relation to Classical, Christian, and Jewish Traditions of Interpretation |
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| 1995 |
| Anne B. Nelson |
| (currently at Assumption College) |
| The Classroom of Didymus the Blind |
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| 1994 |
| Michael L. Meckler |
| Caracalla and His Late-Antique Biographer: A Historical Commentary on the Vita Caracalli in the Historia Augusta |
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| Netta R. Berlin |
| (currently at University of Michigan) |
| Dreams in Roman Epic: The Hermeneutics of a Narrative Technique |
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| Jennifer B. Clarke-Kosak |
| (currently at Bowdoin College) |
| The Pain of the Living: Suffering and Healing in Euripidean Tragedy |
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| Brad E. McNellen |
| (currently at Detroit Country Day School) |
| Persian Nomos and Paranomia in Herodotus |
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| Ira Mark Milne |
| Nepos' Biographies as Encomia: A Philological and Linguistic Analysis |
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| David D. Leitao |
| (currently at San Francisco State University) |
| The "Measure of Youth": Body and Gender in Boys' Transitions in Ancient Greece |
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| Gina M. Soter |
| (currently at University of Michigan) |
| The Curse of Oedipus: Action and Utterance in Three Tragedians |
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| Geoffrey S. Sumi |
| (currently at Mt. Holyoke College) |
| Public Performances and Political Symbols: The Rise of Octavianus in 44 B.C. |
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| 1992 |
| Jeri B. DeBrohun |
| (currently at Brown University) |
| Hercules Belabored: Propertius 4.9 and the Discourses of Elegy |
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| Ariel Loftus |
| (currently at Wichita State University) |
| Ritual in Greek Politics: Athens at the End of the Fifth Century |
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| Deborah R. Davies |
| (currently at Brooks School) |
| Genealogy and Catalogue: Thematic Relevance and Narrative Elaboration in Homer and Hesiod |
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| 1991 |
| Cynthia J. Bannon |
| (currently at Indiana University) |
| Consors Mecum Temporum Illorum: Brothers in Republican Rome |
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| James T. Kearney |
| Ammianus Marcellinus and his Roman Audience |
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| Roger T. Macfarlane |
| (currently at Brigham Young University) |
| The Narrative of Politics: Julius Caesar and the Bellum Civile |
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| 1990 |
| Ellen A. Bauerle |
| Procuring an Election: Ambitus in the Roman Republic, 432-49 B.C. |
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| Gregg Schwendner |
| (Currently at Wichita State University) |
| Literary and Non-Literary Papyri from the University of Michigan Collection |
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| Kristin O. Lord |
| (currently at Wilfrid Laurier University) |
| Pindar in the Second and Third Hymns of Callimachus |
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| 1989 |
| Alexander D. Kurke |
| Theme and Adversarial Presentation in Cicero's Pro Flacco |
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| John D. Dillery |
| (currently at University of Virginia) |
| Xenophon's Historical Perspectives |
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| 1988 |
| Benjamin A. Victor |
| (currently at University of Montréal) |
| A New Critical Edition of Terence's Andria |
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| James V. Morrison |
| (currently at Centre College) |
| Homeric Misdirection: False Predictions in the Iliad |
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| Louise H. Pratt |
| (currently at Emory College) |
| Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar |
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| Diane M. Juffras |
| (currently at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [law]) |
| Friendship and Faction in Sophocles: Greek Political Thinking and the Ajax, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus |
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| Alison M. Keith |
| (currently at University of Toronto) |
| The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 531-835 |
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| 1987 |
| Mark J. Petrini |
| (currently at Columbia University [medicine]) |
| Children and Heroes: A Study of Catullus and Vergil |
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| James A. Tucker |
| Ritual Insults for Gluttony and Laziness in Greek Poetic Initiations: Theogony 26 and its Echos |
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| John N. Rauk |
| (currently at Michigan State University) |
| The Lover's Farewell: A Study of the Propemptikon in Greek and Latin Literature |
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| Philip L. Andreini |
| (currently at Fresno City College) |
| Speech, Context, and Narrative Point Aspects of Speech in Tacitus' Annals |
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| 1986 |
| Carl A. Anderson |
| (currently at Michigan State University) |
| The Epithets of Athena in Aristophanes |
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| James J. O'Hara |
| (currently at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in the Aeneid |
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| Thomas A. J. McGinn |
| (currently at Vanderbilt University) |
| Prostitution and Julio-Claudian Legislation: The Formation of Social Policy in Early Imperial Rome |
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| Thomas Keith Dix |
| (currently at University of Georgia) |
| Private and Public Libraries at Rome in the First Century B.C.: A Preliminary Study in the History of Roman Libraries |
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| 1985 |
| John F. Petrucione |
| (currently at Catholic University of America) |
| Prudentius' Use of Martyrological Topoi in Peristephanon |
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| David G. Martinez |
| (currently at University of Chicago) |
| P. Mich. 6925: A New Magical Love Charm |
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| 1984 |
| Maryline G. Parca |
| (currently at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| A Late Greek Tragedy on the Theft of the Palladion: P. Colon. Inv. Nr. 5932 |
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| Hermann S. Schibli |
| (currently at Universität Passau) |
| The Narrative of Politics: Julius Caesar and the Bellum Civile |
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| John P. Bodel |
| (currently at Rutgers University) |
| 64. Freedmen in the Satyricon of Petronius |
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| Marie T. Gingras |
| (currently at University of Colorado, Denver) |
| 63. Character and Literary Choice: The Minor Individuals in Tacitus' Annals I-VI |
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| 1983 |
| Martha A. W. Baldwin (now Bowsky) |
| (currently at College of the Pacific) |
| Fasti Cretae Et Cyrenarum: Imperial Magistrates of Crete and Cyrenaica During the Julio-Claudian Period |
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| 1982 |
| Anne H. Groton |
| (currently at St. Olaf College) |
| A Commentary on Menander's Aspis 1-163 |
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| Dennis P. Kehoe |
| (currently at Tulane University) |
| The Economics of Food Production on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa |
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| 1981 |
| Robert W. Daniel |
| (currently at Universität zu Köln) |
| Greek Papyri From the Collections of Freiburg, Vienna and Michigan |
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| Robert C. Ketterer |
| (currently at University of Iowa) |
| The Dramatic Function of Stage Properties in Nine Plays of Plautus |
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| Susan D. Martin |
| (currently at University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
| Building Contracts in Classical Roman Law |
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| Susan C. Shelmerdine |
| (currently at University of North Carolina, Greensboro) |
| The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: A Commentary (1-114) with Introduction |
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| Michael B. Poliakoff |
| (currently President, National Council on Teacher Quality) |
| Studies in the Terminology of the Greek Combat Sports |
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| Peter M. Bing |
| (currently at Emory University) |
| Callimachus' Hymn to Delos 1-99: Introduction and Commentary |
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| 1980 |
| Mary Taliaferro Boatwright |
| (currently at Duke University) |
| Tacitus and the Wealth, Enrichment and Impoverishment of the Roman Upper Classes |
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| Leah Rissman |
| Homeric Allusion in the Poetry of Sappho |
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| Barbara M. Weiden (now Weiden Boyd) |
| (currently at Bowdoin College) |
| Cynthia and Rome in the Development of Propertius' Literary Identity |
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| 1977 |
| Richard F. Thomas |
| (currently at Harvard University) |
| Ethnography and the Landscapes of Augustan Poetry |
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| Harold Y. McCulloch, Jr |
| (currently at Wagner College) |
| Remedia Tardiora: Patterns of Devolution in the Annals of Tacitus |
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| Shelley P. Haley |
| (currently at Hamilton College) |
| The Role of Amicitia in the Life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus |
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| 1976 |
| Meredith C. Hoppin |
| (currently at Williams College) |
| The Theme of Mutability and Dramatic Unity in Four Plays of Sophocles |
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| John Clayton Fant |
| (currently at University of Akron) |
| The Curatores Rei Publicae in Italy from Their Inception to the Death of Commudus |
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| Helena R. Dettmer |
| (currently at University of Iowa) |
| The Structural Pattern of Horace's Odes |
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| 1975 |
| Robert J. Rabel |
| (currently at University of Kentucky) |
| Theories of the Emotions in the Old Stoa |
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| Nancy E. Priest |
| Homeric Papyri in the Michigan Collection |
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| Rick M. Newton |
| (currently at Kent State University) |
| Oedipus and the Ways of Knowing |
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| John D. McLaughlin |
| (deceased) |
| The Relevancy of the Mythological Episodes to Ovid's Ars Amatoria |
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| Stephen D. Laruccia |
| The Concept of Peace in the Works of Tacitus |
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| 1974 |
| James V. Romano |
| The Literary Art of Archilochos: The Elegiac Poems |
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| Robert H. Brophy III |
| (currently at Syracuse University) |
| Mancupium and Mancipatio in Plutus: One Specimen of Plautine Legal Humore and Metaphor |
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| Joel B. Itzkowitz |
| (currently at Wayne State University) |
| A Critical Edition of Lucian's Vitarum Auction and Piscator |
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| Daniel V. McCaffrey |
| (currently at Randolph-Macon College) |
| The Thematic Arrangement of Ovid's Amores |
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| Robert J. Edgeworth |
| (currently at Louisiana State University) |
| The Uses of Color Terms in the Aeneid |
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| 1973 |
| William E. Metcalf |
| (currently at Yale University) |
| The Cistophori of Hadrian |
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| Peter G. Ansorge |
| (currently at Texas Lutheran University) |
| Objective and Subjective Tradition in the Ajax of Sophocles |
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| 1972 |
| Robert W. Sawyer |
| (currently at Hiram College) |
| An Analysis of the Political, Economic and Social Influence of Select Families of Colonial Pompeii |
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| Sylvia G. Brown (now Brown Hamano) |
| (currently at Ryukoku University [law]) |
| Metrical Studies in the Lyrics of Euripides' Late Plays |
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| Charles I. Terbille |
| (currently at Brigham Young University) |
| William of Aragon's Commentary on Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophia |
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| 1971 |
| Theodore A. Tarkow |
| (currently at University of Missouri, Columbia) |
| Three Aeschylean Exodoi: A Study of the Concluding Scenes of the Persians, the Seven, and the Suppliants |
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| Julius Redling |
| (currently at Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten) |
| The Dramatic Function of Philia in the Later Plays of Sophocles |
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| William S. Moran |
| (currently at Dartmouth College [library]) |
| Mimnhskomai in Homer |
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| Richard Hamilton |
| (currently at Bryn Mawr College) |
| General Form in the Odes of Pindar |
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| 1970 |
| Carl W. Querbach |
| (retired from University of Windsor) |
| A Formulaic Analysis of Books Ten and Sixteen of the Iliad |
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| Thomas G. McCarty |
| Cornelius Nepos: Studies in his Technique of Biography |
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| 1969 |
| Michael G. Moore |
| (currently at University of Houston) |
| Galen: Introduction to the Bones. A Critical Edition with Translation and Indices |
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| 1968 |
| Olin J. Storvick |
| (currently at Concordia College) |
| Atticism in the Theophrastus of Aeneas of Gaza |
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| Mae J. Smethurst |
| (currently at University of Pittsburgh) |
| The Balance of Justice: Aischylos' Oresteia |
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| Gerald M. Brown |
| Documentary Papyri From the Michigan Collection |
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| David L. Sigsbee |
| (currently at University of Memphis) |
| The Ridicule of the Stoic Paradoxes in Ancient Satirical Literature |
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| Jeremiah Reedy |
| (currently at Macalester College) |
| Galen, De Tumoribus Praeter Naturam, A Critical Edition with Translation and Indices |
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| James J. Helm |
| (currently at Oberlin College) |
| Demetrius Triclinius and the Textual Tradition of the Oresteia |
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| 1967 |
| John T. Davis |
| (deceased) |
| Fides and the Construction of Propertius' Books I and II |
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| 1966 |
| Edward M. Michael |
| A Critical Edition of Select Michigan Papyri |
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| 1963 |
| Sister Margaret Michaella Folliard, O. P. |
| Some Aspects of the Diction of Aeschylus |
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| Wilfred C. Johannes (Rev.) |
| The People of Menander: A Study of Nouns Designating Family, Occupation, Social and Servile Class |
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| 1962 |
| Johannes Helms |
| (retired from Valparaiso University) |
| Character Portrayal in the Romance of Chariton |
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| 1961 |
| William G. Thomson |
| (deceased) |
| An Evaluation of a Technique for Improving Reading Comprehension in Latin |
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| Hans A. Pohlsander |
| Metrical Studies in the Lyrics of Sophocles |
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| 1956 |
| Robert T. Otten |
| (retired from Calvin College) |
| Metron, Mesos, and Kairos: A Semasiological Study |
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| 1954 |
| Robert N. Mooney |
| Character Portrayal and Distortion in Ammianus Marcellinus |
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| 1953 |
| Myrtle Soles |
| Studies in Colloquial Language in the Poems of Catullus |
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| Walter A. Markowicz |
| The Text Tradition of St. John Chrysostom's Homilies on Genesis and MSS Michiganenses 139, 78, and Holkhamicus 61 |
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| 1952 |
| George F. Osmun |
| Dialogue Technique in Menander |
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| 1951 |
| Finley A. Hooper |
| (retired from Wayne State University) |
| Funerary Stelae From Kom Abou Billou |
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| 1950 |
| Arthur F. Carlson |
| The Orthography and Phonology of the Latin Papyri |
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| 1949 |
| Edith M. A. Kovach |
| (retired from University of Detroit) |
| A Study of the Manuscripts of the Florilegium of the Letters of Symmachus |
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| 1944 |
| Peter Ruthven |
| Islamic Textiles: A Catalogue of the H. A. Elsberg Collection of Egypto-Arab Textiles |
