Titles of Past CMS Theses
Theses for the Classes of 2007 – 2010
| Name (2012) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Duncan Briggs | “Lucan’s Rejection of Vergilian Epic Characterization: A Literary Analysis between Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile” – Prof. Hayward |
| Kelsey Cornwell (History Major) | Naval Warfare and Society in the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War – Prof. Cole |
| Melinda Higgons | The Etruscans and the Fanum Voltumnae – Prof. Imber |
| Daniel S. McKeigue (History Major) | The Charismatic Leadership of Alcibiades- Prof. Maurizio |
| Parker Repko | The Fall of the Roman Republic: The Gracchan Revolution – Prof. Imber |
| Thomas Repko | An Economic Analysis of the Land and Labor Reforms of the Gracchi during the Late Second Century of the Republic – Prof. Imber |
| Gregory Watts | Empowered Women: Study of the Gender Relationship in Classical Sparta – Prof. Maurizio |
| Name (2011) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| David Irons | Greek Forerunners of the Modern Hospital – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Amalia Maletta | The Paradoxical Prototype: Political Implications of the Herculean Divinity during the Reign of Commodus – Prof. Imber |
| Katie Taylor | The Archaeology of Roman Surgery – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Name (2010) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Andrew W. Beck (History Major) | The Second Punic War – Prof. Imber |
| Sara Beneman | “A Study of Athena and Dionysus’ Masculine and Feminine Features” – Prof. Maurizio |
| Alex Garnick | Livia’s Constitutional and Cultural Role(s) – Prof. Imber |
| Maddy Glennon | “The Changing Face and Power of the Gorgon” – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Grainne Hebeler | “The Roman ‘Reuse’ of Historical Artefacts” – Prof. Imber |
| Neeraj Hotchchandani | Increased Severity of Punishment in the Late Republic and Early Empire – Prof. Imber |
| Dan La Fontaine | “Identity Evolution in Aristophanes’ Acharnians – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Avery Pierce | “Recovering the Past: Interpretations of Homer’s Iliad” – Prof. Maurizio |
| Emily Staszak | “Scribes of Venus: Writing Narratives of Rape in the 12th and 14th Centuries” – Prof. Federico |
| Name (2009) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| John Bement | “The Origin of the Rule of St. Benedict and Its Impacts on Western Monasticism” – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Chris Dahlin | “Publius Claudius Pulcher and the Constitution of the Roman Empire” – Prof. Imber |
| Scott Juhl | “The Political Consciousness of the Ordo Equester during the Roman Republic” – Prof. Imber |
| Andrew Gaudio | Apuleius and the Question of Religious Conversion – Prof. Hayward |
| Alison Hartrich (Greek Minor) |
“Elpis and Obama’s Rhetoric of Hope” – Prof. Maurizio |
| Timothy Henderson | “Ovid’s Use of Female Adornment to Criticize Women and Augustan Rome” – Prof. Maurizio |
| Lauren Patz | “Failed Masculinity: The Aeneid and the Fall of the Roman Republic” - Prof. Imber |
| Name (2008) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Annie Barton – HONORS | “A Woman with a Past: Briseis in the Iliad” – Pof. O’Higgins |
| Erin Faulder | “Cicero the Philosopher Statesman: a reading of His Political Philosophy” – Prof. Hayward |
| Maggie McCally | “The Myth of Medea in Theater: Shifts in Dramatic Focus” - Prof. Maurizio |
| Kim Nelson | “A ‘Good’ Death: Suicide in Stoicism and Seneca’s Phaedra” - Prof. Maurizio |
| Allie Schwartz – HONORS | “Omens: The Undiscovered Voice of the Common Roman” - Prof. Walker and O’Higgins |
| Name (2007) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Martin Benes | Ovid and Anti-Augustanism – Prof. Hayward |
| Austin Haynes | “Pausanias and His Periegesis” – Prof. Imber |
| Alexandra Hughes | “Stylistic and Thematic Parallels in Heraclitus’ Fragments & Oracular Wisdom” – Prof. Maurizio |