Here you'll find information about our current PhD students and the research projects they're working on.
Charalampos Papathanasiou
Title of thesis: Empathy in the ancient novel: strategies on shaping morals
Supervisors: Professor Ian Rutherford and Dr Christa Gray
Year joined: 2021
Sorian Verterius
Title of thesis: Pinning down language learning in ancient education
Supervisors: Professor Eleanor Dickey and Professor Suzanne Graham
Year joined: 2021
Eleanor Goddard
Title of thesis: The ‘daughters’ of Hecuba (Andromache, Cassandra and Polyxena) in Euripides’ Trojan cycle and their receptions in the ‘golden’ and ‘silver’ ages of Latin literature
Supervisors: Professor Barbara Goff and Dr Christa Gray
Year joined: 2020
Edward Ross
Title of thesis: A crucible of religious interchange: understanding the evolving spirituality of the Hellenistic Far East
Supervisors: Professor Rachel Mairs and Professor Ian Rutherford
Year joined: 2020
Meryt Ramble-Wallace
Title of thesis: Middle voice: media tantum, verbal categorisation, and the evolution of ancient Greek thought
Supervisors: Professor Eleanor Dickey and Professor Ian Rutherford
Year joined: 2020
Cheryl Gupta
Title of thesis: The symbolism of the defeated bull in ancient Greek mythology
Supervisors: Dr Emma Aston and Professor Ian Rutherford
Year joined: 2019
Becca Grose
Title of thesis: Changing presentations of virtue in the region of Burgundian hegemony: epigraphic evidence from the IV-VII centuries AD
Supervisors: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou and Dr Richard Flower
Year joined: 2017
Doukissa Kamini
Title of thesis: Killing in the name of power: political interpretations and intra-familial violence in the story of Orestes
Supervisors: Professor Barbara Goff and Professor David Carter
Year joined: 2017
Jessica Feito
Title of thesis: Regional variation in diet and crop choices: a comparison of Roman Italy and the Near East
Supervisors: Professor Annalisa Marzano and Dr Gundula Müldner
Year joined: 2016
Rosanagh Mack
Title of thesis: The role of the horse on Thessalian coinage 479-320 BC
Supervisors: Dr Emma Aston and Professor Rachel Mairs
Year joined: 2016
Personal webpageSeongmee Yoon
Title of thesis: Archaeological and socio-cultural studies on remains and burial excavated in Lowbury Hill.
Supervisor: Prof. Amy Smith
Year joined: 2021