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Andrea Achi
Institute for Fine Arts, New York University
Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Andrea
Achi is studying for a master’s in the history of art and archaeology,
with a focus on early Christian and Byzantine Egypt, at New York
University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She graduated from Barnard College
with a degree in ancient studies, and she received a master’s in May
2011 in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian studies from New York
University. Also, she is an archaeological ceramicist for New York
University’s excavation at Amheida, Egypt.
Diane Amoroso-O’Connor
Bryn Mawr College
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Diane
Amoroso-O'Connor is a Ph.D. Candidate in Greek, Latin, and Classical
Studies at Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests include Roman
History, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and the intersections of the
various cultures around the ancient Mediterranean. Currently, she is
researching the grain trade and its relationship with the Egyptian
diaspora in Italy.
Zacharias Andreadakis
University of Michigan
Classics
Zacharias
Andreadakis is a first year graduate student at the University of Michigan. He did
his undergraduate studies in Greece, at the University of Athens. His
main interests are Late Antiquity studies via historiographical,
papyrological and epigraphical evidence. His B.A. thesis was Crime and Punishment in Ammianus Marcellinus and his current project concerns Augustine's reception in early medieval philosophy.
Samantha Bellinger
Skidmore College
Art History and Arts Administration
Samantha
Bellinger is a Master’s student at Skidmore College under David Howson.
Bellinger received her B.A. in Art History from Dickinson College.
Following her undergraduate career, she accepted a Fellowship at the
Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT. Then beginning her graduate studies
in Art History at the University of Maryland, she studied Art History
under Dr. Arthur Wheelock, Jr. Now, combining her love of art and
museums, she is pursing a Masters in Arts Administration.
Alexander Brey
Bryn Mawr College
History of Art
Alexander Brey
is a graduate student in the History of Art department of Bryn Mawr
College, focusing on late antique and early medieval palatial
architecture in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. His M.A.
thesis focused on the triconch audience hall of Mushatta, a late Umayyad
palace, and its connections to domestic and religious architecture in
the eastern Mediterranean. He has worked on several excavations
including a Viking settlement in Scotland, a Roman fort in Jordan, and
most recently the Medieval mosque in Tiberias, Israel. Other interests
include economic and artistic exchange in the Indian Ocean, medieval and
modern conceptions of the past, reuse and spoliation, and the
possibilities presented by New Media for the exploration of Old Media.
Madeline Chera
Indiana University
Sociocultural Anthropology
Madeline
Chera is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Anthropology Department at
Indiana University and has an undergraduate background in
Interdisciplinary Humanities. She studies the sociocultural anthropology
of food and the environment through IU's Food Studies program, and she
recently conducted research on building a local food system in the
tourism industries of southern Belize as part of an applied
anthropological fieldwork team. Madeline is currently interested in
issues of biodiversity and cultural heritage.
Jamie Fishman
University of Cincinnati
Classics
Jamie
Fishman is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Classics at
the University of Cincinnati. He received a B.A. in Classics from Kenyon
College in 2010. His research interests include narrative theory,
ancient lexicography, translation studies, sociolinguistics, and Homeric
language and the oral tradition. Jamie will also be presenting a paper
at the upcoming APA Annual Meeting in January 2012 titled, “Virtuous
Antithesis: Speech Patterns in the Menander’s Dyskolos."
Jennifer Griffiths
Bryn Mawr College
History of Art
Jennifer
Griffiths is a doctoral student in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr
College with particular interests in Feminist Theory and Modern Italy.
Her dissertation is entitled "Women Aeropainters of Italian Futurism:
Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine." Jennifer has given
previous conference papers at Monash University in Prato, Italy, Queen
Mary University in London, and the University of Birmingham, UK.
Stephanie Simms
Boston University
Archaeology
Stephanie
is a doctoral candidate specializing in Mesoamerican archaeology and
archaeobotanical methods—specifically phytoliths and starch. Her
dissertation research synthesizes excavation of an elite residential
Maya compound (A.D. 800–950), detailed analysis of recovered artifacts,
and identification of associated plant food residues to characterize
daily activities involving interactions with food. Preliminary results
confirm her expectation that she will be discussing more than just
maize, instead exploring the range and diversity of edible plants in the
tropical scrub jungle of the northwestern Yucatán peninsula.
Sarah Townsend
Fordham University
English
Sarah
Townsend grew up in Rochester, NY and did her undergraduate degree in
English and History at the University of Rochester. She is now a second
year M.A. student in Medieval Studies at Fordham University. Her general
research interests include Middle English and Anglo-Norman literature
especially medieval romance, saints' lives and drama. More specifically,
she is interested in medieval women readers and writers, cognition, the
sensorium and performativity.
Abbe Walker
Bryn Mawr College
Classics
Abbe
Walker received her B.A. in Greek and Latin from Florida State
University in 2008 and went on to receive her M.A. from Bryn Mawr
College in 2011. Her Master’s thesis examined the problem of virgin
sacrifice in Euripides’ Hecuba and Iphigeneia at Aulis,
combining close readings of the plays with modern theoretical
approaches to sacrifice. Her research interests include Greek religion,
tragedy, and historiography.
Rose Wellman
University of Virginia
Anthropology
Rose
Wellman is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of
Virginia. She recently came back from ten months of ethnographic research
in Iran where she explored processes of kinship and nation making. Her
theoretical interests include the study of kinship, procreation, Islam,
and food. Rose graduated in 2005 with a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College
where she also studied anthropology.
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