Faculty
Alessandro Barchiesi
 
Chris Bobonich
 
Giovanna Ceserani
 
Andrew Devine
 
Mark Edwards
 
Maud Gleason
 
Robert Gregg
 
Patrick Hunt
 
Bert Lain
 
Joe Manning
 
Richard Martin
 
Jody Maxmin
 
Marsh McCall
 
Ian Morris
 
Reviel Netz
 
Andrea Nightingale
 
Josiah Ober
 
Grant Parker
 
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
 
Fred Porta
 
Rush Rehm
 
Richard Saller
 
Walter Scheidel
 
Michael Shanks
 
Susan Stephens
 
Jennifer Trimble
 
Visiting Faculty
Ewen Bowie
 
Barbara Clayton
 
Ana Maria Gonzales de Tobia
 
Konstatinos Kotsakis
 
Lisa C. Pieraccini
 
Alessandro Schiesaro
 
Visiting Scholar

Tomasz Markiewicz
 
Adrienne Mayor
 
Phiroze Vasunia
 
Visiting Researcher
Saskia Hin
 
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar
Gary Devore
 
Agnes Hsu
 
Philip Horky
 
Lauri Reitzammer
 
Director of Graduate Studies
Joseph Manning
 
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Maud Gleason
 
Staff
Department Manager
Alicia Kester
 
Student Services and Admissions
Alicia Sanchez
 
General Office Manager
Margo Keeley
 

 

Classics Department Alumni Bios

WILLIAM BALDWIN (BA, 1963)
After Stanford, and 2 years of military service, he attended U.C's Boalt Hall Law School. He is currently a retired assistant district attorney, after 34 years with the Alameda County (California) District Attorney's Office.
 
LIFFEY THORPE (BA, 1973)
taught Classics at Earlham College for 25 years. Moved to Maine coast in 2003.

JENNIFER SCHAFFNER (BA, 1980)
is a Reference Librarian at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

DAVID C. NECKELS (BA, 1991)
is now working as a mathematician in Colorado.

NICOLE COOPER (BA, 1998)
received a PhD from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles. Thereafter, Chief Psychologist and Clinical Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at Mt. Sinai in New York City. She is currently working on medication and psychotherapy trials for PTSD and depression. She also has a private psychotherapy practice in the Mount Sinai Faculty Practice Associates. Nicole recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University with a specialty in trauma psychology, and an internship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

DAVID FLEMMING (BA, 1998)
earned an MA at Syracuse, and is ?The Voice of the San Francisco Giants.? David and wife Jessica, are now parents of twins, Carter and Katie. Click here for a related story.
 
ADAM KEMEZIS (BA, 1999)
received his PhD from University of Michigan and taught from 2006-7 at Ball State University in Indiana. He is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Roman History at the University of Alberta in Canada.

JEREMY KANE (BA, 2001)
MA Trinity College, Dublin, is the director and founder of LEAD Academy, a charter school in Nashville, TN.

MATT TSANG (BS, 2001)
minored in Classics, received a Master of Studies in Classical Archaeology from Oxford; MD UCSF (2006), Intern, Stanford Medical Center (2006-7); and is now at the University of Minnesota Medical Center for a residency in dermatology.

ALLISON LEWIS (BA, 2002)
an alumna of many years' working with Ian Morris in Sicily, is working in the conservation lab at the Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) in Philadelphia and will be receiving her Masters Degree in Conservation from the UCLA/Getty program in June of 2008.

VIRGINIA CLOSS (BA, 2004)
received an MPhil from Cambridge and taught Classics at Sacred Heart Prep School in Menlo Park and at a prep school in Manhattan. She will begin the doctoral program in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.

ERIC LOWE (BA, 2004)
following a Stanford BA, Phi Beta Kappa, just completed his second year at Stanford Law School. Monument to War: Tyrtaios at Bassae, his senior essay for Classical and fourth century Greek art, is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of Papyri.

MARDEN NICHOLS (BA/MA, 2004)
who earned a Stanford Classics BA and an MA w/Honors and a Golden Medal for her thesis advised by Professor Jennifer Trimble, got a Marshall Scholarship to Cambridge University, where she received her MPhil (w/Distinction) in 2005. Marden's MA thesis is Plaster Cast Sculpture, A History of Touch, Archaeological Review from Cambridge vol. 21.2, Nov. 2006, 114-130. She is completing her dissertation under the direction of Mary Beard.

ALEXANDER SMYTH (BA, 2005)
after working for the Stanford Office of Undergraduate Admission for a year, headed back to school for a M.S. in Management Science & Engineering. He will graduating in March 2008 and will be headed to work for Bain & Company in their Palo Alto office.
 
LAUREN WILLARD (BA, 2005)
earning Phi Beta Kappa distinction has been working this year with Triage Consulting Group in San Francisco.
 
RENATA SANCHEZ (BA, 2007)
is currently teaching first and second grade special education in Alum Rock District in San Jose, as a Teach for America Corps Member.

 
Grad Students
 
Jason Aftosmis
 
Rachel E. Ahern
 
Melissa A. Bailey
 
Kathryn E. Balsley
 
Nicholas Boterf
 
Christelle Fischer Bovet
 
Margaret Butler
 
J. Sebastian De Vivo
 
Alexander Duncan
 
Charles W. Gladhill
 
Caedmon R. Haas
 
Sarah K. Janda
 
Elizabeth Jones
 
Foivos Karachalios
 
James C. Kierstead
 
Daphne Kleps
 
Ulrike Krotscheck
 
Kyle B. Lakin
 
Sarah Levin-Richardson
 
Andrew Monson
 
Sarah C. Murray
 
Micah Myers
 
David S. Platt
 
Courtney A. Roby
 
Matthew Simonton
 
Robert Stephan
 
John W. Sutherland
 
Vincent E. Tomasso
 
Darian M. Totten
 
Lela Urquhart
 
Donni Wang
Co-Terminal Students
 
Sara P. Farahani
 
Erik J. Hope
 
Aditi Iyer
Undergraduates
 
Kara Altman
 
Lane Barrasso
 
Sarah Bradford
 
Angela M. Cheng
 
Jordan Coleman
 
Eleri Cousins
 
Alycen English
 
Alexander Fenner
 
Elissa Freedman
 
Denis Griffin
 
Andrew Hall
 
Victoria Harman
 
Augustus Horwith
 
Jason Hreha
 
C.J. Jameson
 
Melissa Knight
 
Zhifeng Koh
 
Jeanette Kreuze
 
Christopher Marinelli
 
John McGee
 
Donna (Yan) Meng
 
Prentice Miller
 
Rachel Patt
 
William Powers
 
Elizabeth Rabinstein
 
Daniel Richards
 
Emma Sachs
 
Anne Schiff
 
Ian Schildkret
 
Samuel Shrank
 
Deborah (Soo-Hye) Sohn
 
Denise (Soo-Ah) Sohn
 
Shila Soni
 
Tyler Thompson
 
Maryroz Timbang
 
Brian Truebe
 
Kasey Tucker
 
Nikita Vashi
 
Adriana Vasquez
 
Anand Venkatkrishnan
   
Department of Classics, Building 110, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-2145. Phone: (650) 723-0479