Titles of Past CMS Theses
| Name (2023) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Jenna Berens | How the Vavsours Rose to Prominence – Prof. S. Lynch |
| Mary Sutton Trafton | “He chose for Himself yours- a useless, disobedient, and faithless nation”: Jewish, Christian, and Roman Identity in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Prof. M. Tizzoni |
| Name (2022) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Will Corcoran | The Historia Regum Britanniae and the Aeneid – Prof. L. O’Higgins |
| Abigail Grumann | The Ancient Pharmakis: Literature and Reality –Prof. L. Maurizio |
| Name (2021) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Alan Bisesi | Pestilence and Penitence: The Cyprianic Plague and the Rise of Christianity –Prof. M. Tizzoni |
| Annie Boyer | The Petulant Poet: Contextualizing the Obscene Invective of Catullus–Prof. G. Gillies |
| Lewis Ezra Clark | The Auxilia at the Forefront of ‘Provincialising’ Rome – Revolts, Rebellions and Revolutions by Non-Citizens Fighting for Rome during the Early Principate –Prof. G. Gillies |
| Katherine Cody | Women’s Bodies and Agency within Ancient Rome–Prof. L. O’Higgins |
| Genevieve Dickinson | Merlin and Magic in Medieval Literature–Prof. S. Federico |
| Roman Hudgins | Digital Classics–Prof. A. Shrout |
| Peter Philbin | From Ἰφιγένεια to Iphigénie: Recreating Greek Theater Through a Reform Opera – Prof. L. O’Higgins |
| Nicholas Quill | Reconstructing the Female Experience in Classical Attica Through A Close Analysis of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter–Prof. L. O’Higgins |
| Patrick Windels | The Homeric Hero–Prof. H. Walker |
| Name (2020) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Sullivan Brock | Night in Hesiodic and Orphic Traditions –Prof. L. Maurizio |
| Jesus Carrera | An Analysis of the Diagrams and Axioms in Euclid’s Elements –Prof. L. Maurizio |
| Christine Carroll | An Analysis of Persephone’s Agency in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter –Prof. L. Maurizio |
| Shengwei Deng | Eros and Democracy in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War–Prof. L. O’Higgins |
| Marcel Devalle | Questions of Gender in Chaucer–Prof. S. Federico |
| Danielle Meng | Camilla’s Spectacle: Gendered Nationalism in Vergil’s Aeneid–Prof. G. Gillies |
| Name (2019) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Zofia Ahmad | Living on the Edge: India in the Greek Mind before Alexander the Great – Prof. Cameron/Winter ’19 |
| Hannah Walker Austin | The Value in “Vanité: “The Benefits of Pleasure Reading and Viewing in Le Morte D’arthur and Star Wars Rebels – Prof. Villagrana/Fall ’18 |
| Isabella Barrengos | Face to Face with Dionysos: Confrontation in the Bacchae – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’19 |
| Matthew Phillip Berdon | Chaucer’s Imagined Jews: How The Prioress’s Tale Portrays a Racialized Jewish Identity – Prof. Wright/Winter ’19 |
| Rohan Bhat | (Re)Reading Katharsis in Aristotle’s Poetics: Depicting Action’s Contradictions – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’19 |
| Caroline Barnes | The Soul in Flight: A Survey of Psyche in Ancient Greek Art and Literature from Homer to Plato – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’19 |
| Allison Anne Cormier | Slaves in the Athenian Home: How Eastern Elements of Worship Were Integrated into Athenian Female Cults – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’19 |
| Shangwei Deng | Eros and Democracy in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’19 |
| Evan Goldberg | Written in Stone: Examining the Oral and Written Traditions of Laws and Oracles Through Attic Oratory – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’19 |
| Wanyi Lu | The Downfalls of Sophocles’ Tragic Heroes: Ajax, Antigone, and Creon – Prof. Walker/Winter ’19 |
| Shelbie Leigh McCormack | Troy: A Mirrored City and a Culture Not Forgotten |
| Jenna Catherine Powell | Dike in Hesiod’s Thogony and Works and Days – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Lindsay Ryder | Early Byzantine Stobi in Context: A Study of the Episcopal Basilica and the Jewish Synagogue – Prof. Corrie/Winter ’19 |
| Amanda Sobotka | Bogeys, Monsters, and Mothers: The Infanticidal Fantasies of 5th Century BCE Greek Women – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’19 |
| Katherine Josephine Ziegler | Dueling Lyres: Competing Consolatory Practices in the Roman Empire – Prof. Cameron/Winter ’19 |
| Name (2018) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Maria Felski | Unwriting Pastoral: An Ecocritical Reading of Virgil’s Eclogues – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’18 |
| Michael Edward Florentino | A Mortal God: How Augustus Motivated, Maneuvered, and Molded His Apotheosis – Prof. Cameron/Winter ’18 |
| Sam Levin | How the Huns Induced the Collapse of the Western Empire: A Study of Causal Networks of Nomadic Migration and Their Effects on a Sedentary Civilization – Prof. Jones/Winter ’18 |
| Ryen Martinez | Heaven, Hell and the Duality of the Commissioner and the Illuminator: A Study of the Tres Riches Heuresy – Prof. Corrie/Winter ’18 |
| Name (2017) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Rachel Ebersole | Monstrous Seduction: An Analysis of the Development of the Sirens from the Classical to the Medieval Period – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’17 |
| Kylee Johnson | Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Greece and Modern Poetry – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’16 |
| Name (2016) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Elizabeth A. LaVerghetta | Dionysus and Dracula–Of Blood, Invasion, Inversion, Cults, and the (Un)Dying: A Multiform Analysis – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’16 |
| Maddie Legro | A Method to the Madness: Manifestations of Aratus’ Stoicism in the Phainomena – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’15 |
| Theodore Samuel Rube–HONORS | Searching for Blood in the Streets: Mapping Political Violence onto Urban Topography in the Late Roman Republic, 80-50 BCE – Prof. Imber |
| Name (2015) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Marina Barsoum | Heroines and Vengeful Monsters in Ancient Greece – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’14 |
| Jackson Padraic Fleming | Gender, Authorship, and Authority in the Acts of Paul and Thecia. An Intermediate Ancient Greek Reader with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Essay – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’15 |
| Conor Hampson | Octavian’s Usurpation and Augustus’ Principate – Prof. Imber/Winter ’15 |
| Hannah Kogan | From the Roman Republic to Empire, Treason and Tiberius: A Misunderstanding – Prof. Imber/Winter ’15 |
| Thomas Leonard | Investigating the Status of the Ancient Roman Physician – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’14 |
| Henry Lee | Negative Portrayals of the Orient in Homer’s Iliad – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’14 |
| Helen Anne Lober | Standing On the Shoulders of Giants: The Mythological and Theological Roots of Parmenides and Zeno – Prof. Stark and Walker/Winter ’15 |
| Name (2014) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Andrew Carrancor | Theme of Memory in Virgil’s Ecologues – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’04 |
| Shoshana Emma Foster | The Home of the Dead, Religions of the Living: The Distinctions between the Jewish and Christian Communities in Ancient Rome as Observed in the Catacombs of the 2nd through 4th Centuries C.E. – Prof. Imber/Fall ’13 |
| Sarah Krischer | “Creolization” of Pottery Assemblages in Early Roman Britain – Prof. Bigelow/Winter ’04 |
| Chuck Mann | Drunken Sophistication – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’14 |
| Phoebe Tamminen | Widows and Orphans in Fifth Century Athens: A View from Attic Tragedy – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’14 |
| Name (2013) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Michael Spinosa | Hippocratic Medicine in Ancient Greece – Prof. Walker/Winter ’13 |
| 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/Fall ’10 |
| Kelsey Cornwell (History Major) | Naval Warfare and Society in the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’11 and Cole/Winter ’12 |
| Daniel S. McKeigue (History Major) | The Charismatic Leadership of Alcibiades – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’12 |
| Parker Repko | The Fall of the Roman Republic: The Gracchan Revolution – Prof. Imber/Winter ’12 |
| Thomas Repko | An Economic Analysis of the Land and Labor Reforms of the Gracchi during the Late Second Century of the Republic – Prof. Imber/Winter ’12 |
| Gregory Watts | Empowered Women: Study of the Gender Relationship in Classical Sparta – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’11 |
| Janee White | Female Homeroticism in Ancient Greek Literature – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’12 |
| Name (2011) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Andrew W. Beck (History Major) | The Second Punic War – Prof. Imber/Fall ’10 |
| Melinda Higgons | The Etruscans and the Fanum Voltumnae: An Introductory Report to the Campo della Fiera Site and Its Possible Correlation with the Fanum Voltumnae – Prof. Imber/Fall ’10 |
| David Irons | Greek Forerunners of the Modern Hospital – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’11 |
| Dana Lindauer | Hephaistos and Mt. Aetna – Prof. Walker/Winter ’11 |
| Amalia Maletta | The Paradoxical Prototype: Political Implications of the Herculean Divinity during the Reign of Commodus – Prof. Imber/Winter ’11 |
| Katie Taylor | The Archaeology of Roman Surgery – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’11 |
| Name (2010) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Matthew Bannon | Emperor Julian and the Decline of the Roman Empire – Prof. Jones/Fall ’09 |
| Alex Garnick | Livia’s Constitutional and Cultural Role(s) – Prof. Imber/Fall ’09 and Winter ’10 |
| Maddy Glennon | The Changing Face and Power of the Gorgon – Prof. O’Higgins/Winter ’10 |
| Grainne Hebeler | The Roman ‘Reuse’ of Historical Artefacts – Prof. Imber/Fall ’09 |
| Neeraj Hotchchandani | Increased Severity of Punishment in the Late Republic and Early Empire – Prof. Imber/Winter ’10 |
| Dan La Fontaine | Identity Evolution in Aristophanes’ Acharnians – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’09 |
| CJ Miller | Accidental Allies: Septimius Severus and the Cult of Mithras in the Third Century – Prof. Imber/Winter ’10 |
| Avery Pierce | Recovering the Past: Interpretations of Homer’s Iliad – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’09 |
| Emily Staszak | Scribes of Venus: Writing Narratives of Rape in the 12th and 14th Centuries – Prof. Federico/Winter ’10 |
| Name (2009) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| John Bement | The Origin of the Rule of St. Benedict and Its Impact on Western Monasticism – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’07 and Winter ’08 |
| Sara Beneman | A Study of Athena and Dionysus’ Masculine and Feminine Features Attributes in Fifth Century Athens – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’09 |
| Chris Dahlin | Publius Claudius Pulcher and the Constitution of the Roman Empire – Prof. Imber/Winter ’09 |
| Andrew Gaudio | Apuleius and the Question of Religious Conversion – Prof. Hayward/Winter ’09 |
| Alison Hartrich (Greek Minor) | Elpis and Obama’s Rhetoric of Hope – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’09 |
| Timothy Henderson | Ovid’s Use of Female Adornment to Criticize Women and Augustan Rome – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’09 |
| Scott Juhl | The Political Consciousness of the Ordo Equester during the Roman Republic – Prof. Imber/Winter ’09 |
| Lauren Patz | Failed Masculinity: The Aeneid and the Fall of the Roman Republic – Prof. Imber/Fall ’08 |
| Name (2008) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Annie Barton – HONORS | A Woman with a Past: Briseis in the Iliad – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’07 and Winter ’08 |
| Erin Faulder | Cicero the Philosopher Statesman: A Reading of His Political Philosophy – Prof. Hayward/Fall ’07 |
| Maggie McCally | The Myth of Medea in Theater: Shifts in Dramatic Focus – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’07 |
| Kim Nelson | A ‘Good’ Death: Suicide in Stoicism and Seneca’s Phaedra – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’08 |
| Allie Schwartz – HONORS | Omens: The Undiscovered Voice of the Common Roman – Prof. Walker/Fall ’07 and O’HIggins/Winter ’08 |
| Name (2007) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Martin Benes | Ovid and Anti-Augustanism – Prof. Hayward/Fall ’06 |
| Austin Haynes | Pausanias and His Periegesis – Prof. Imber/Winter ’07 |
| Alexandra Hughes | Stylistic and Thematic Parallels in Heraclitus’ Fragments & Oracular Wisdom – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’07 |
| Name (2005) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Jacqueline A. Donnelly | Christianity and Homosexuality: Ancient Rome’s Influence on Christian Ideology on Homosexuality – Prof. Allison/Winter ’05 |
| Nancy Highcock | The Archaeological Evidence for Christianization in Fourth-Century Britain – Prof. Jones |
| Ben Jarrett | Syncretism between Classical Religion and Christianity in the Roman Empire – Prof. Allison/Fall ’04 |
| Sarah Jessee (HONORS) | Dramatic Dissent: Seneca’s Hercules Furens as a Subversive Political Text – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’04 and Hayward/Winter ’05 |
| John Karass | Epicurus, Einstein and the Cosmic Man – Prof. Hayward/Winter ’05 |
| Lilly McManus | Roman Far Eastern Contacts – Prof. Jones |
| Meredith Mennitt | Honor in the Arena: Evolution of Roman Honor and the Gladiatorial Games – Prof. Maurzio/Winter ’05 |
| Taylor Miles | Greek Notions of Ugliness – Prof. Walker/Winter ’05 |
| Matt Rosler | Damnatio Memoriae and Portraiture in Rome – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’05 |
| Daniel B. Ryan Jr. | The Christian Reception of the Plurality of Worlds Theory – Prof. Allison/Winter ’05 |
| Amanda Seadler | A Translation of the “Querolus” – Prof. Hayward/Winter ’05 |
| Cassandra Tamis | An Exploration of Anger, Gender, Stoicism in Hercules Furens – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’05 |
| Erin Torrey | Herodotus and Sensory Perception – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’04 |
| Name (2004) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Sarah Connell | Wonderlands: An Examination of the Otherworld Island in the Odyssey and the Voyage of Máel Dúin – Prof. Walker/Winter ’04 |
| Martha Horan | Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe in Midsummer’s Night Dream – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’04 |
| Nicolai Jensen | – Prof. Cole/Winter ’04 |
| Jennifer J McGill | The Chorus in Noh Drama and Greek Tragedy – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’04 |
| Name (2003) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Seneca’s Hercules Furens: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’02 and Winter ’03 |
| Name (2002) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Zachary Gill | Violence Defends the Man: The Masculine Hero in Seneca’s Hercules Furens – Prof. Maurzio/Fall ’01 and Winter ’02 |
| Elizabeth Miller | On Translating Children’s Tales – Prof. Hayward/Winter ’01 |
| Name (2001) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Andrew Coombe | Evaluating the Feasibility of Aristotle’s Vision of Utopia – Prof. O’Higgins/Fall ’00 |
| Brian Curtis | A Fourteenth-Century Clue to the Mystery of Diocletian’s Palace – Prof. Imber/Fall ’00 and Winter ’01 |
| Kurt Eilhardt (HONORS) | A Recreation of the Character and Goals of the Venerable Bede – Prof. Imber/Fall ’00 and Jones/Winter ’01 |
| Stephen Figge | Gender Bias in Iphigeneia in Tauris: Euripides’ Treatment of Women and Ethics (Thesis work done prior to 2001) – Prof. O’Higgins |
| Golin Kosowitz | Roman Law – Prof. Imber/Winter ’01 |
| Melissa Mitchell (HONORS) | Poetry and Translation: The Art of Failure or a Failed Art? – Prof. Hayward/Fall ’00 and Winter ’01 |
| Mindy Newman (HONORS) | Pilgrimage and Thecla – Prof. Allison/Fall ’00 and Winter ’01 |
| Meredith McLean | A Deconstruction of Paternal and Social Authority in the Prometheus Bound – Prof. Maurizio/Winter ’01 |
| Joshua Sandord | Education Under the Reign of Charlemagne – Prof. Walker/Fall ’00 and Jones/Winter ’01 |
| Golin Tahmasebi | Gladiators and the Arena – Prof. Imber/Winter ’01 |
| Francis Tate II | A Lacanian Reading of Catullus – Prof. Maurizio/Fall ’00 and Winter ’01 |
| Name (2000) | Thesis Title and Advisor |
| Kurt C. Desheimeier | “Florios and Platziaflore”: A Translation of a Medieval Greek Romance – Prof. Allison/Winter ’00 |
| Jennifer Hederman | – Prof. Jones |
| Alyssa Hemmerick | Alfred and the Old English Orosius – Prof. Jones |
| George Whitney | – Prof. O’Higgins |