UMD Classics Grads Shine at the 2025 AIA/SCS

Six Alumni Present at Annual Meeting

In January 2025, six alumni of the Classics department, representing a wide range of
expertise, were on the program at the joint annual meeting of the Society for Classical
Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia. Will Austin, M.A.
2017, Ph.D. Princeton 2024 in Art History and Archaeology, gave a paper on
“Moldmade Bowls from the Molyvoti Peninsula;” Jonathan Clark, B.A. 2018, Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Washington, spoke on “They Prayed to Become Her
Sheep”: Reading Eroticized Animals and Servitium Amoris in Daphnis and Chloe;
Marissa (Hicks) Swan, M.A. 2019, who is finishing her Ph.D. at Columbia University,
spoke on “The Animalization of Imperial Bodies: Lactantius and the Tetrarchic
Emperors;” and Robert Santucci, M.A. 2016, Ph.D. Michigan 2023, Assistant Professor
at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, presented on “Vomiting up Vergil:
Seneca's Emetic Theory of Reception.” Aviva Pollack, B.A. 2015 (and our first-ever
archaeology minor), gave a talk on “An Exhumation of Roman Clay Coffins and Their
Connection to Mortuary Maritime Trade.” E. Del Chrol, M.A. 1997, Ph.D. USC,
Professor of Classics and Chair of the Humanities Department at Marshall University,
presided at the session on Imperial History.