Current Students in Classics

Diane Amoroso-O'Connor

(MA Student)
BA Classical Civilizations, Wellesley College
Post Bac Course Work, Harvard Extension School
damoroso@brynmawr.edu

A Boston native, Diane received her BA from Wellesley College in 2002 after writing her honors thesis on the storytelling tropes of the foreign queen in Roman epic poetry and biographical history. Her interests include: ethnicity, nationality, tropology, historiography, epistemology, and ancient science and technology.

Mary Frances Bannard

Jennifer L. Brown

(MA Student)
BA Classics, St. Olaf College, 2001
MAT Latin and Classical Humanities, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003
jlbrown@brynmawr.edu

Jenny received her BA in Classics from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 2001, and in 2003 she completed her MAT in Latin and Classical Humanities at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 2003, she has been teaching full-time at the Tower Hill School in
Wilmington, Delaware, where she teaches all levels of Latin, from beginning Latin in the seventh grade to through Advanced Placement in the eleventh and twelfth grades. Jenny is a part-time student at Bryn Mawr.

Lee Burnett

(PhD Student)
Philadelphia, PA
BA Classical Languages, Haverford College
MA Theater, Villanova University
MA Classics, Bryn Mawr College
ner0ne@yahoo.com

Interests include: Latin epic poetry, drama and theater (Greek and Latin), Roman imperial history, especially Nero.

Related experience: have taught all levels of Latin (6th grade - A.P.) for fourteen years at Mercersburg Academy and now Germantown Academy. Attended ICCS program in Rome. Lead a trip to Rome every other Spring for junior high school Latin students.

Denise Camporeale

(MA Student)

BA Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005
Post-bac Classics, Columbia University, 2006

Interests: Roman poetry (esp. Ovid), theatrics and presentation in Cicero, magic and personal power, individual perception, material culture as its appearence and intended use tell volumes about everyday life.

Molaika Karina Cañas

(MA Student)
BA Classics, University of Dallas

Ted Freeman

(MA Student)
Westtown, PA
BA Classics, Colby College

Ted has taught Latin at independent schools for the past eleven years.  Originally from Swarthmore, PA, he recently came back to the area after working in southern California for a number of years. Ted studied in Athens for a year, has worked on several excavations in Greece and Cyprus, and most recently spent the summer in Rome attending a workshop for AP Latin teachers.

Sarah E. Hafner

(MA Student)
BA Classics/Humanities (Arch), Loyola Marymount University

Paul J. Hays

Jennifer Kay Hoit

(MA Student)
jhoit@brynmawr.edu
BA Classical Studies; Classical Art and Archaeology, Indiana University, 2008

Jennifer received her BA in Classics with a minor in Anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington, her hometown college. In her final year there, she completed a Classical Studies Honors Thesis entitled “Verbs Denoting Amazement in Early Greek Epic.”

Interests include: Greek literature, early Greek epic, Greek and Roman comedy, Roman satire, food in literature, and anthropological approaches to Classics.

Eleanor V. Mulhern

(MA Student)

AB, Classics

Princeton University, 2007

Eleanor earned her AB in Classics from Princeton University in 2007,
having written her undergraduate thesis on the character of Hector in
a range of Greek and Latin literature. Her interests include the
Trojan War, epic in general, military history, and Roman Republican
political theory.

Mage Macchione

(MA student)
BA Classical Languages and Literatures, Pomona College

Sara Sieteski

(M.A. Student)
B.A. Classics and Mathematics, SUNY University of Buffalo
M.A. Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder
ssieteski@brynmawr.edu

Sara received her B.A. in Classics and Mathematics from SUNY University of
Buffalo (2003) and her M.A. in Classics from the University of Colorado,
Boulder (2005). Her master's thesis was entitled Changing Aspects of Roman
Army Life within the Hadrianic Period. During that time, she also worked for
two years as a Latin and mathematics teacher at Cherokee Trail High School and
taught a 3-week intensive Latin course for two summers at the University of
Denver's Rocky Mountain Talent Search. Currently she is employed full-time in
IT at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library and aspires to
merge the two fields to further promote the development and digitization of
online Classical resources.

Sara's interests include: ancient technology and engineering, Greek religion,
Greek tragedy, historiography, military history, oratory, Roman republican and
imperial history, and Roman social relationships. In addition, she is
currently writing a children's book to promote ancient history to younger
generations.

Jessica M. Sisk

(PhD Student)
MA in Classics, Bryn Mawr College

BA Latin and Classical Culture and Literature, Indiana University

Jessica received her B.A. in Latin and Classical Literature and Culture along with a Certificate in Medieval Studies from Indiana University,
Bloomington, where her interdisciplinary studies culminated in a thesis on female friendships in antiquity. She is a 2003 Beinecke scholar. Current
interests include the natural environments of the ancient world (with
particular attention to the botanical), papyrology, and early
twentieth-century poets involved in classical reception (i.e. the poet and
novelist H.D.).

Elizabeth Hall Spear

(PhD Student)
MA Classics, Bryn Mawr College
BA Classical Studies, Williams College

A native of the Main Line, Betsy received her BA in Classics from Williams College in 2001.   She was a student in the University of Pennsylvania's Post-Baccalaureate Classical Studies Program before beginning her graduate work at Bryn Mawr in 2004. Her interests include: Latin poetry (especially Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Heroides ), History of Science, Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World, Dido, reception theory, and the interactions of gender and genre in Roman literature.  

Jennifer Ann Tracy

Edward Whitehouse

(MA Student)
BA Greek and Latin/Religious Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2006

A wandering soul, Eddie adopted an interdisciplinary approach to the history of ideas while in the U of M's Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies. Now, having returned to the Main Line, where he began his undergraduate career, he focuses his attention on resistance and innovation in the (re)construction of identity, religious syncretism, and problems in historiography. Included among his philological interests are: Greek tragedy and history, patristics, and all things Late Antique.