Department of Classical Studies

• Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
• Greek Historiography
• Ancient Ethnography
• Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity

My research centers on the depiction of ethnicity, race, and cultural identity in Archaic and Classical Greek historiography and ethnography, particularly in Herodotos’ Histories. In my dissertation, What it Means to be a Hellene: The Consistency of Ethnic Representation in Herodotos’ Histories, I examine how Herodotos’ expectation for an active and critical audience prompts the reader to question a simplistic interpretation of the definition of Greekness offered by the Athenians in 8.144 of Herodotos’ Histories. I am also interested in how later Greek and Roman authors engage with the Histories, such as how they perpetuate the characterization of the Gelonoi as Skythians, contrary to Herodotos’ research.

• Greek and Roman Mythology
• Roman Culture
• Ancient Greek Language (beginning and intermediate)
• Latin (beginning, intermediate, and advanced)
• Intensive Introduction to Latin
• Intensive Study of Literary Latin

“What it Means to be a Hellene: The Consistency of Ethnic Representation in Herodotus' Histories," ProQuest, 2026.