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
d1ga@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)
Banducci, Laura
laura.banducci@carleton.ca
Assistant Professor, Greek and Roman Studies, Carleton University
Dissertation (2013): “Foodways and Cultural Identity in Roman Republican Italy”
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
Chair of Classics Department, Elstree School, Woolhampton, Berkshire, England
Dissertation (1985): “An Analytical Study of North African Amphitheaters”
Burns, Bryan
bburns@wellesley.edu
Associate 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
Assistant Curator, St. Louis Art Museum
Dissertation (2009): "Androgyny, Identity, and Iconography on the Graeco-Phoenician Sealings from Tel Kedesh, Israel"
Cangemi, Ivan
cangemi@umich.edu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Dissertation (2016): “A Scale-Free, Relational Approach to Social Development in Late-Prehistoric Tyrrhenian Central Italy”
Carr, Karen Lichtenbaum
http://quatr.us
Publisher and CEO, Quatrus Study Guides
Associate Professor Emerita, 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"
Colburn, Henry
henry.colburn@umich.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Getty Research Institute
Dissertation (2014): "The Archaeology of Achaemenid Rule in Egypt"
Commito, Angela
acommito@umich.edu
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Classics, Union College
Dissertation (2014): "Asia Minor at the End of Antiquity: A View from the Countryside"
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
jamescook@trentu.ca
Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient History and Classics, Trent University
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon
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
elspeth.dusinberre@colorado.edu
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, 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
Senior Research and Knowledge Manager, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
Dissertation (2007): “Ritual Activity and Regional Dynamics: Towards a Reinterpretation of Minoan Extra-Urban Ritual Space”
Farr, Jason
jasfarr@umich.edu
Dissertation (2014): "The Lapis Gabinus Quarries and the Roman Economy of Urban Construction"
Foss, Pedar
pfoss@depauw.edu
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
M.A. (1979)
Gagliano, Lorraine Knop
M.A. (2013)
Garrison, Mark
mgarrison@trinity.edu
Alice Pratt Brown Professor, 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-Foster, Jennifer
gatesfos@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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
Special Collections Cataloger, 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
sharvey2@kent.edu
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
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ancient Studies, New York University
Dissertation (2004): "Imported Ceramics and the Rural Consumer in Late Roman Mediterranean Gaul"
Herring-Harrington, Lydia
lherring@syr.edu
MILS student at Syracuse University
Dissertation (2011): “Strategies of Communication in the Shrines of Pompeii”
Heston, Holly
hheston@aorn.org
Instructional Designer, AORN
M.A. (1986)
Hiers, Margaret
Associate Veterinarian, Brookstone Animal Hospital
MA (2001)
Higginbotham, James
jhigginb@bowdoin.edu
Associate Professor and Associate Curator, Department of Classics, Bowdoin College
Dissertation (1991): “Artificial Fishponds in Roman Italy during the Late Republic and Early Empire”
High-Steskal, Nicole
nicohigh@umich.edu
Dissertation (2015): “Domesticating Spectacle in the Roman Empire: Representations of Public Entertainment in Private Houses of the Roman Provinces”
Hoffman, Gail
gail.hoffman@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.”
Holt, Emily
emilyhol@buffalo.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, the State University of New York - Buffalo
Dissertation (2013): "Economy and Environment in Complex Societies: A Case Study from
Bronze Age Sardinia"
Horowitz, Naomi
naomih@mit.edu
Principal Architect, nlh architecture
M.A. (1994)
Ph.D. program in Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hughes, Ryan
rchughes@umich.edu
Dissertation (2015): "The Archaeology of a Colchian Landscape: Results of the Eastern Vani Survey"
Johnson, Karen
karjanjoh@gmail.com
Adjunct Instructor; Language Arts, English, and Developmental Studies; North Central State College (Ohio)
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
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
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Findlay
M.A. (1979)
Kosak, Andrew
Teacher, Brunswick Junior High School, ME
M.A. (1990)
Landvatter, Thomas
thomas.landvatter@reed.edu
Assistant Professor, Classics Department, Reed College
Dissertation (2013): "Identity, Burial Practice, and Social Change in Ptolemaic Egypt"
Larson, Katherine
kalars@umich.edu
Curatorial Assistant, Corning Museum of Glass
Dissertation (2015): "From Luxury Product to Mass Commodity: Glass Production and Consumption in the Hellenistic World"
Lash, Samantha
samlash@umich.edu
Graduate Student, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
M.A. (2013)
Laurence, Karen
klaurence@clevelandart.org
Engagement Officer, Cleveland Museum of Art
Dissertation (2012): "Panhellenism in the Roman Empire: Infrastructural Changes to the Panhellenic Sanctuaries, Formations of New Identities"
Lawall, Mark
mark.lawall@manitoba.ca
Associate 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
Vice President of Analytics, Semphonic/Ernst & Young
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
Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art in Doha, Qatar
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
Radiologist, Charlotte Radiology, NC
M.A. (1991)
Maxwell-Jones, Charlotte
cemj@umich.edu
Dissertation (2015): "A Typology and Chronology of Ceramics from Bactra, Afghanistan, 600 BCE-500 CE"
McAlpine, Lynley
lynley@umich.edu
Lecturer, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Dissertation (2014): "Marble, Memory, and Meaning in the Four Pompeian Styles of Archaeology"
McCoy, Laurie
M.A. (1983)
Deceased, 1998
McFerrin, Neville
nmcferri@umich.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Sweet Briar College
Dissertation (2015): " The Art of Power: Ambiguity, Adornment, and the Performance of Social Position in the Pompeian House"
McKeon, Carolyn Hessenbruch
Secretary, Damariscotta River Association, Maine
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”
Mogetta, Marcello
mogettam@missouri.edu
Assistant Professor of Roman Art & Archaeology, Art History & Archaeology, University of Missouri
Dissertation (2013): “The Origins of Concrete in Rome and Pompeii”
Monteiro, Lyra
lyra.monteiro@rutgers.edu
Professor, History Department, Newark College of Arts and Sciences
IPCAA M.A. (2006)
Brown University PhD (2012)
Morden, Margaret
Instructor, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
M.A. (1984)
Nagel, Alexander
nagela@si.edu
Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History
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
Software Engineer, Bullhorn, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Dissertation (2009): “The Roman Honorific Arches of Pisidian Antioch: Reconstruction and Contextualization”
Ostrow, Steven
sostrow@mit.edu
Lecturer, 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
vpennanen@ccsj.edu
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.
n.d.pollard@swansea.ac.uk
Senior 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
Gilbert M Denman, Jr., Curator of Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World, San Antonio Museum of Art
Dissertation (2006): "Patrons, Houses and Viewers in Pompeii: Reconsidering the House of the Gilded Cupids"
Rabinowitz, Adam
arabinow@utexas.edu
Associate 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
kros@uic.edu
Lecturer, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation (1990): “The Roman Theater at Carthage”
Royer, Jacqueline
Principal/Senior Architect and Planner, Steffian Bradley Architects
M.A. (1984)
Rubin, Benjamin
Benjamin.Rubin@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
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
schoenbrun_benjamin@bah.com
Lead Associate; Booz, Allen, Hamilton, McLean, VA
M.A. (1995)
Schwartz, Harriet Sue
M.A. (1980)
Shaya, Josephine
jshaya@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
Research Fellow, Università di Bologna
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
a.sobotkova@unsw.edu.au
Research Fellow, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University
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
mswetnamburlan@wm.edu
Associate 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@miamioh.edu
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
Associate Professor, Chair of Archaeological Studies, Department of Classics, Oberlin College
Dissertation (2005): "Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Egypt, Cyprus and Spain"
