Ph.D Students

Roman provincial archaeology with particular interest in North Africa and Britain, Roman amphitheater and circus games, Greek and Roman art and architecture, Roman cult of Mithras

Email: bbethany@interchange.ubc.ca

Greek Sanctuaries, The Archaeology of Religion, Greek and Roman Art & Archaeology, Topography of Athens, Death and Commemoration in the Roman World, Animals in the Ancient Mediterranean, Archaeological Theory, 

Latin prose literature (especially from the late republican and early imperial periods), panegyric, the ideology of virtues and vices, kingship theory, Latin love elegy, Roman historiography, Lucretius, gender and sexuality, Greek lyric poetry. 

Thesis title: Multicultural Banqueting in the Development of Archaic Greek Society

Research interests: Greek social and cultural history, Greek poetry, poetics, historiography, the history and archaeology of the Iron Age Mediterranean, Latin poetics and rhetoric, Roman intellectual history.

Classical Association of Canada Graduate Student Caucus Co-Chair and Communications Officer, 2012-13.

Email: solez@interchange.ubc.ca

My work involves a socio-rhetorical analysis of the Mishnah tractate niddah. I am exploring how the authors of the tractate juxtapose competing rabbinic authorities as a strategy to position their text as authoritative regarding female purity. I am attempting to determine what this rhetorical enterprise might suggest regarding the tensions and negotiations at play between the authors and the women with whom they share social space.

Email: caseytoews@telus.net