Past IPCAA Graduates and their Current Positions
Information concerning the whereabouts of our alumni is current to the best of our knowledge. Please send corrections or updates to ipcaa.office@umich.edu.
Adams, Jean Alison
M.A. (1982)
Allen, Marti L.
Dissertation (1985): “The Terracotta Figurines from Karanis: A Study of Technique, Style, and Chronology in Fayoumic Coroplastics”
Anderson, Björn
bjorn-anderson@uiowa.edu
Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
Dissertation (2005): "Constructing Nabataea: Indentity, Ideology, and Connectivity"
Armantrout, George
dlga@pdx.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Portland State University
Dissertation (1990): “The Seven Against Thebes in Greek Art”
Bace, Edward
Dissertation (1983): “Cosa: Inscriptions on Stone and Brick-Stamps”
Baily, Ingrid
M.A. (1991)
Bellah, Mary Suzanne
M.A. (1979)
Berlin, Andrea
aberlin@bu.edu
James R. Wiseman Chair of Classical Archaeology, Archaeology Department, Boston University
Dissertation (1988): “The Hellenistic and Early Roman Common-Ware Pottery from Tel Anafa”
Bomgardner, David L.
dlb13@tinyworld.co.uk
Elstree School, Woolhampton, Berkshire, England
Dissertation (1985): “An Analytical Study of North African Amphitheaters”
Burns, Bryan
bburns@wellesley.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Wellesley College
Dissertation (1999): “Import Consumption in the Bronze Age Argolid (Greece): Effects of Mediterranean Trade on Mycenaean Society”
Button, Seth
sbutton@umich.edu
Dissertation (2010): “Resource Stress and Subsistence Practice in Early Prehistoric Cyprus”
Cakmak, Lisa
lacakmak@gmail.com
Mellon Curatorial Fellow, St. Louis Art Museum
Dissertation (2009): "Androgyny, Identity, and Iconography on the Graeco-Phoenician Sealings from Tel Kedesh, Israel"
Carr, Karen Lichtenbaum
carrk@pdx.edu
Associate Professor, History Department, Portland State University
Dissertation (1992): “Did Roman Government Matter? The Standard of Living in the Guadalquivir Valley A.D. 300-700”
Caulfield, Tracy
M.A. (1984)
Deceased, 1986
Colantoni, Elizabeth
Elizabeth.Colantoni@Rochester.edu
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
Dissertation (2005): "Sacred Sites and Religion in Early Rome, Eight to Sixth Centuries BC"
Compton, Geoffrey
gcompton@brynmawr.edu
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College
Active in IPCAA
M.A. (1997)
Conlin, Diane Atnally
diane.conlin@colorado.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation (1993): “The Large Processional Friezes on the Ara Pacis Augustae: Early Augustan Sculptural Styles and Workshop Traditions”
Cook, R. James
james.cook@oberlin.edu
Dissertation (2011): “Landscapes of Irrigation in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayum: Interdisciplinary Archaeological Survey and Excavation Near Kom Aushim (Ancient Karanis), Egypt”
Cunningham, Gail
M.A. (1995)
Devlin, Felicity
Scealta Shamhne, Ireland
M.A. (1990)
Dey, Hendrik
hendrikdey@gmail.com
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Hunter College
Dissertation (2006): “The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855”
Dicus, Kevin
kdicus@umich.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Case Western University
Dissertation (2012): “Actors and Agents in Republican Religion in Italy. A View from the Sanctuary at Grasceta dei Cavallari”
Dix, Thomas Keith
tkdix@uga.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Georgia, M.A. (1978)
Dobbins, John
dobbins@virginia.edu
Professor, Art Department, University of Virginia
Dissertation (1977): “Terracotta Lamps of the Roman Province of Syria”
Dusinberre, Elspeth
E.Dusinberre@Colorado.edu
Associate Professor in Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation (1997): “Satrapal Sardis: Aspects of Empire in an Achaemenid Capital”
Eaverly, Mary Ann
eaverly@classics.ufl.edu
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, University of Florida, Gainesville
Dissertation (1986): “The Equestrian Statue in Archaic Greek Sculpture”
Edwards, Nancy
M.A. (1977)
Faro, Elissa
elissa.faro@gmail.com
Lecturer, Dartmouth College
Dissertation (2007): “Ritual Activity and Regional Dynamics: Towards a Reinterpretation of Minoan Extra-Urban Ritual Space”
Foss, Pedar
pfoss@depauw.edu
Associate Professor, Classical Studies Department, Depauw University
Dissertation (1994): “Kitchens and Dining Rooms at Pompeii: The Spatial and Social Relationship of Cooking to Eating in the Roman Household”
Friedland, Elise
efried@gwu.edu
Professor of Classics and Art History, Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
Dissertation (1997): “Roman Marble Sculpture from the Levant: The Group from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi (Banias)”
Fullerton, Monica Barran
fullerton.2@osu.edu
Program Coordinator, Department of History, Ohio State University
M.A. (1979)
Garrison, Mark
mgarrison@trinity.edu
Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Trinity University
Dissertation (1988): “Seal Workshops & Artists in Persepolis: A Study of Seal Impressions Preserving the Theme of Heroic Encounter on the Persepolis Fortification & Treasury Tablets”
Gates, Jennifer
gatesfoster@mail.utexas.edu
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Dissertation (2005): "Traveling the Desert Edge: The Ptolemaic Roadways and Regional Economy of Egypt's Eastern Desert in the Fourth through First Centuries BCE"
Goodnoh, Carla
carla.j.goodnoh@dartmouth
Dartmouth College, Residential Life Department
M.A. (1992)
Griffith-Collins, Alison
allison.griffith@canterbury.ac.nz
Senior Lecturer, Classics Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dissertation (1993): “The Archaeological Evidence for Mithraism in Imperial Rome”
Haeckl, Anne E.
ahaeckl@kzoo.edu
Senior Instructor, Department of Classics, Kalamazoo College
M.A. (1977)
Hamann, Barbara
hamannb@carnegiemuseums.org
Head of Conservation, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
M.A. (1985)
Harrison, Ann
Getty Center
Dissertation (1992): “Early Black Figure Workshops of Athens and Corinth: A Study of Reciprocal Artistic Influences”
Hartnett, Jeremy
hartnetj@wabash.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Wabash College
Dissertation (2003): “Streets, Street Architecture, and Social Presentation in Roman Italy”
Harvey, Sarah Morgan
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Classics Department, Kent State University
Dissertation (1999): “The Iron Age II Period in the Central Negev Highlands and Edom: A Comparison of Settlement Intensification and Land Exploitation”
Heath, Sebastian
sebastian.heath@nyu.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Institute of the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Dissertation (2004): "Imported Ceramics and the Rural Consumer in Late Roman Mediterranean Gaul"
Herring-Harrington, Lydia
herrilyd@umich.edu
Dissertation (2011): “Strategies of Communication in the Shrines of Pompeii”
Heston, Holly
M.A. (1986)
Hiers, Margaret
MA (2001)
Higginbotham, James
jhigginb@bowdoin.edu
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, Bowdoin College
Dissertation (1991): “Artificial Fishponds in Roman Italy during the Late Republic and Early Empire”
Hoffman, Gail
hoffmaga@bc.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Fine Arts and Classical Studies, Boston College
Dissertation (1990): “Immigrants, Imports & Problems in the Study of Influence: Archaeological Evidence for Artistic Transmission from the Near East to Crete, ca. 1100-ca. 700 B.C.”
Horowitz, Naomi
naomih@mit.edu
M.A. (1994)
Ph.D. program in Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johnson, Karen
karjanjoh@gmail.com
Dissertation (2006): "Materializing Childhood: an Historical Archaeology of Children in Roman Egypt"
Keesling, Catherine
keeslinc@georgetown.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Georgetown University
Dissertation (1995): “Monumental Private Votive Dedications on the Athenian Acropolis, ca. 600-400 B.C.”
Khatchadourian, Lori
lk323@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Dissertation (2008): “Social Logics Under Empire: The Armenian 'Highland Strategy' and Achaemenid Rule, CA 600-300 BC ”
Koloski-Ostrow, Ann O.
aoko@brandeis.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, BrandeisUniversity
Dissertation (1986): “The Sarno Bath Complex: Architecture in Pompeii's Last Years”
Kontar, Diane Reiersgord Clark
kontar@findlay.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Findlay
M.A. (1979)
Kosak, Andrew
Teacher, Mt. Ararat Middle School, Gifted & Talented Program, Topsham, ME
M.A. (1990)
Laurence, Karen
karenlau@umich.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and OKUM Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, Oberlin College
Dissertation (2012): "Panhellenism in the Roman Empire: Infrastructural Changes to the Panhellenic Sanctuaries, Formations of New Identities"
Lawall, Mark
lawall@cc.umanitoba.ca
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Manitoba
Dissertation (1995): “Transport Amphoras and Trademarks: Imports to Athens and Economic Diversity in the Fifth Century B.C.”
Legutko, Paul
Dissertation (2000): “Roman Imperial Ideology in the Mid-Third Century A.D.: Negotiation, Usurpation, and Crisis in the Imperial Center”
Long, Leah
leahel@umich.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, McMaster University
Dissertation (2012): "Urbanism, Art and Economy: The marble quarrying industries of Aphrodisias and Roman Asia Minor"
Longfellow, Brenda
brenda-longfellow@uiowa.edu
Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
Dissertation (2005): "Imperial Patronage and Urban Display of Roman Monumental Fountains and Nymphaea"
MacKay, Camilla
cmackey@brynmawr.edu
Head Librarian, Rhys Carpenter Library, Bryn Mawr College
Dissertation (1999): “Road Systems and Postal Service of the Eastern Roman and Byzantine Empires”
Mallampati, Hima
hima.mallampati@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Museum Studies, New York University
Dissertation (2010): “Acquiring Antiquity: The Early History of Classical Collections at the University of Michigan and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Mancuso, Marc
M.A. (1991)
McCoy, Laurie
M.A. (1983)
McKeon, Carolyn Hessenbruch
museum@airmail.net
Education Director, Heritage Farmstead Museum, Plano, TX
Dissertation (1983): “Iconology of the Gorgon Medusa in Roman Mosaic”
McNiven, Timothy
mcniven.1@osu.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Ohio State University, Marion Campus
Dissertation (1982): “Gestures in Attic Vase Painting: Use and Meaning, 550-450 B.C.”
Menard, Theresa
tdmenard@aol.com
Getty Center; Research Associate, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Dissertation (1990): “The Archaic and Classical Pottery from the Sanctuary at Località Santa Venera in Paestum, Italy”
Miller Ammerman, Rebecca
rammerman@mail.colgate.edu
Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, Colgate University
Dissertation (1983): “The Terracotta Votives from Medma: Cult and Coroplastic Craft in Magna Graecia”
Monteiro, Lyra
M.A. (2006)
Morden, Margaret
memorden@sympatico.ca
Lecturer, Brock University, St. Catherine, Ontario
M.A. (1984)
Nagel, Alexander
nagela@si.edu
Associate Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Dissertation (2010): “Colors, Gilding and Painted Motifs in Persepolis: Approcahing the Polychromy of Achaemenid Persian Architectural Sculpture, c. 520-330 BCE”
Norman, Naomi
nnorman@uga.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Georgia
Dissertation (1980): “The ‘Ionic’ Cella: A Preliminary Study of Fourth Century B.C. Temple Architecture”
Ng, Diana
dmng@umd.umich.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dissertation (2007): “Manipulation of Memory: Public Buildings and Decorative Programs in Roman Cities of Asia Minor”
Ossi, Adrian
aossi@umich.edu
Dissertation (2009): “The Roman Honorific Arches of Pisidian Antioch: Reconstruction and Contextualization”
Ostrow, Steven
sostrow@mit.edu
Professor, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation (1977): “Problems in the Topography of Roman Puteoli”
Park, Helen
M.A. (1999)
Peña, John Theodore
tpena@berkeley.edu
Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation (1987): “Roman-Period Ceramic Productio in Etruria Tiberina: A Geographical and Compositional Study”
Pennanen-Hutchinson, Valerie
English & Professional Writing Program, Calumet College of St. Joseph
Dissertation (1983): “Bacchus in Roman Britain: Archaeological Evidence for His Cult?”
Perry, Ellen
eperry@holycross.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, College of the Holy Cross
Dissertation (1995): “Artistic Imitation and the Roman Patron, with a Study of Imitation in the Ideal Sculptures of Herodes Atticus”
Pollard, Nigel N.D.
Pollard@swansea.ac.uk
Lecturer in Roman History, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Wales,
Swansea, U.K.
Dissertation (1992): “Nota et Familiaria Castra: Soldier and Civilian in Roman Syria and Mesopotamia”
Powers, Jessica Davis
jessica.powers@samuseum.org
Associate Curator of Western Antiquities, San Antonio Museum of Art
Dissertation (2006): "Patrons, Houses and Viewers in Pompeii: Reconsidering the House of the Gilded Cupids"
Rabinowitz, Adam
arabinow@mail.utexas.edu
Assistant professor, University of Texas, Austin
Dissertation (2004): "Symposium, Community and Cultural Exchange in Archaic Sicily and South Italy"
Rempel, Jane
J.Rempel@sheffield.ac.uk
Lecturer in Classical Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Dissertation (2004): "Rural Settlement and Elite Representation: Social Change in the Bosporan Kingdom in the Fourth Century BC"
Reynolds, David
www.phaetongroup.com
Director and CEO, Phaeton Group
Dissertation (1996): “Forma Urbis Romae: The Severan Marble Plan and the Urban Form of Ancient Rome”
Ros, Karen
Lecturer, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, Universityof Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation (1990): “The Roman Theater at Carthage”
Royer, Jacqueline
M.A. (1984)
Rubin, Benjamin
br4@williams.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Williams College
Dissertation (2009): “Augustus, King of Kings: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor, 31 BC - 14 AD”
Sanders, Helen
hmsanders@earthlink.net
Dissertation (2000): “Sculptural Patronage and the Houses of Late Hellenistic Delos”
Schindler, Rebecca
rschindler@depauw.edu
Associate Professor, Classical Studies Department, Depauw University
Dissertation (1998): “The Archaeology of Aphrodite in the Greek West: ca. 650 - 480 B.C.”
Schmalz, Geoffrey
gsc1@sfu.ca
Associate Professor, SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Dissertation (1994): “Public Building and Civic Identity in Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens”
Schoenbrun, Benjamin
Schoenbruns@verizon.net
Booz, Allen, Hamilton, McLean, VA
M.A. (1995)
Schwartz, Harriet Sue
M.A. (1980)
Shaya, Josephine
jshaya@acs.wooster.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, College of Wooster
Dissertation (2002): “The Lindos Stele and the Lost Treasures of Athena: Catalogs, Collections, and Local History”
Shoup, Dan
danieldavid.shoup@unibo.it
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Management, University of Bologna, Italy
Dissertation (2008): “Places of Power and Value: Meaning and Materiality in the Classical Archaeology of Anatolia ”
Sidebotham, Steven
ses@udel.edu
Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware
M.A. (1977)
Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow
mgsobo@umich.edu
Dissertation (2002): “Architectural Images in Roman State Reliefs, Coins, and Medallions: Imperial Ritual, Ideology, and the Topography of Rome”
Sobotkova, Adela
adelas@umich.edu
Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of New South Wales
Dissertation (2012): “The Valley of Thracian Kings? Social Complexity of Inland Thrace during Classical and Hellenistic period”
Stavrinides, Nicholas
hellenik@sonic.net
M.A. (1982)
Stirling, Lea
Lea_Stirling@umanitoba.ca
Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology and Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Manitoba
Dissertation (1994): “Mythological Statuary in Late Antiquity: A Case Study of Villa Decoration in Southwest Gaul”
Stone, David
dlstone@umich.edu
Dissertation (1997): “The Development of an Imperial Territory: Romans, Africans, and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape of Tunisia”
Summitt, J.B.
jbs@privateraise.com
PrivateRaise.com, NY, NY
Dissertation (2000): “Greek Architectural Polychromy from the Seventh to Second Centuries B.C.: History and Significance”
Swetnam-Burland, Molly
mswetnamnburlan@wm.edu
Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
Dissertation (2002): “Egypt in the Roman Imagination: A Study of Aegyptiaca from Pompeii”
Trimble, Jennifer
trimble@stanford.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University
Dissertation (1999): “The Aesthetics of Sameness: A Contextual Analysis of the Large and Small Herculaneum Woman Statue Types in the Roman Empire”
Tuck, Steven
tucksl@muohio.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Miami University (OH)
Dissertation (1997): “Creating Roman Imperial Identity and Authority: The Role of Roman Imperial Harbor Monuments”
Van Rosevelt, Ann
Research Affiliate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
M.A. (1988)
Visona, Paolo
paolo.visona@uky.edu
Scholar in Residence, Department of Art & Adjunct Instructor, Modern & Classical Languages, University of Kentucky
Dissertation (1985): “Punic Bronze Coinage: Circulation, Mint Attribution & Chronology”
Welle, Doug
M.A. (1992)
Wilburn, Andrew
Drew.Wilburn@oberlin.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Oberlin College
Dissertation (2005): "Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Egypt, Cyprus and Spain"
