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Current Students
Justine McConnell (Sawyer Seminar Predoctoral Fellowship, Fall 2009)
Justine McConnell is completing her doctorate on postcolonial responses to the Homeric Odyssey, supervised by Professor Edith Hall at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research addresses anti-colonial and postcolonial responses in a variety of media, with a particular interest in the themes of identity, displacement, and homecoming as explored by authors of ultimately African origins. Reception studies also formed an important part of her work for both her undergraduate degree in Classics at the University of Cambridge, and her M.Phil. in English Literature at Bristol University.
Daniel Tovar (Sawyer Seminar Predoctoral Fellowship, Winter 2010) is a third year graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Berkeley in 2006. His primary research interests include the moral and political philosophy of Plato and especially Aristotle; he is also interested in working on contemporary and moral perfectionism theories informed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Daniel is additionally concerned with German Idealist aesthetics and their treatment of Classical sculpture, and recently presented a paper entitled "Herder, Minimalism, and Michael Fried."
Jesse Njus (Sawyer Seminar Predoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2010)
Jesse Njus is a Ph.D. Candidate in Northwestern University's Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama. She is completing her dissertation "Performing the Passion: A Study on the Nature of Medieval Acting," and she presents regularly at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo and at the American Society for Theatre Research. Her article "The Politics of Mysticism: Elisabeth of Spalbeek in Context," the first full historical analysis of Elisabeth, appeared in Church History 77.2 in June 2008.
Demetra Kasimis has been awarded a postgraduate research scholarship by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation to conduct doctoral research in Greece for the 2008-09 academic year. Kasimis received the 2008-09 Alumnae Fellowship from The Graduate School, a fellowship made possible by the financial support of the Alumnae of Northwestern to fund a year of dissertation writing. She was awarded associate membership at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2007-2008. Ms. Kasimis served as a Classics department Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2005-06 and 2006-07. She is a graduate student in the Political Science Department, Northwestern University.
Placement Record
Tushar Irani was appointed to a tenure-track position at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut. Tushar teaches in both the Wesleyan College of Letters (an interdisciplinary major in history, literature, and philosophy) and in the Philosophy Department. He served frequently as a teaching assistant in Classics and was a regular participant in the events of the Classical Traditions Initiative. Congratulations, Tushar!
Steve Skultety (2006 Northwestern Ph.D. in ancient philosophy), started a tenure-track position in the department of philosophy at the University of Mississippi (Oxford) in September 2006. Mr. Skultety served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Classics 2004-05 and 2005-06.
