Advanced Degree Recipients
Ph.D. Dissertations
| Lydia Kallipoliti *13 (Architecture) Advisors: Beatriz Colomina and Spyridon Papapetros |
“Mission Galatic Household: The Resurgence of Cosmological Imagination in the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s”
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Jessica Paga *12 |
"Architectural Agency and the Construction of Athenian Democracy"
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Tuna Artun *12 |
“Hearts of Gold and Silver:
The Production of Alchemical Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman World” |
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Patricia Blessing *12 |
"Reframing the Lands of Rum: Architectural and Style in Eastern Anatolia, 1240-1320" |
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Thomas Carlson *12 |
“Christians in Fifteenth-Century Iraq: The Church of the East as a Conceptual Community”
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| Zachary Chitwood *12 (History) Advisor: John Haldon |
"Byzantine Legal Culture under the Macedonian Dynasty, 867-1056"
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| Giada Damen *12 (Art and Archaeology) Advisor: Patricia Brown |
"The Trade in Antiquities Between Italy and the Easthern Mediterranean (ca. 1400-1600)" |
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Jessica Paga *12 |
"Architectural Agency and the Construction of Athenian Democracy"
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| Joanna Papayiannis *12 (Art and Archaeology) Advisor: T.L. Shear Jr. |
“The Gynaikonitis: The (Un) Gendered Greek House”
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| Aikaterini Tsolakidou *12 (Classics) Advisor: Andrew L. Ford |
“The Helix of Dionysus: Musical Imagery in Later Euripidean Drama”
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Uhlig, Anna *12 |
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Kutlu Akalin *11 |
"Co-Existence and Persecution: Sixth-Century Constantinople According to John of Ephesus" |
| Angie Andrikogiannopoulou *11 (Economics) |
"Estimating Risk Preferences from a Large Panel of Real-World Betting Choices" |
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Matthew John Milliner *11 |
"The Virgin of the Passion: Development, Dissemination, and Afterlife of a Byzantine Icon Type" |
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Maria Andrioti *10 |
“Cutting Out The Middleman: Cypriot Itinerant Sculptors In The Early 6th Century BC”
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Pavlos Avlamis *10 |
"Aesopic Lives: Greek Imperial Literature and Urban Popular Culture" |
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Charis Boutieri *10 |
“An Ambivalent Embrace: The Cultural Politics of Arabization and the Knowledge Economy in the Moroccan Public School”
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Erica Jo Gilles *10 |
"'Nova francia'? : kinship and identity among the Frankish aristocracy in conquered Byzantium, 1204-1282"
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John-Paul Ghobrial *10 |
“A World of Stories: Information in Constantinople and Beyond in the Seventeenth Century” |
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Ariel López *10 |
"Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty" |
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Katherine Leigh Marsengill *10 |
"Portraits and Icons: Between Reality and Holiness in Byzantium" |
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Arion Melidonis *10 |
"Crisscrossing the Green Line: Voices of the Cyprus Conflict" |
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Marina Mihaljevic *10 |
"Constantinopolitan Architecture of the Komnenian Era (1080-1180) and its Impact in the Balkans" |
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Richard E. Payne *10 |
"Christianity and Iranian Society in Late Antiquity, ca. 500-700 CE" |
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Jack Tannous *10 |
"Syria between Byzantium and Islam: Making Incommensurables Speak" |
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Kevin James Kalish *09 |
“Greek Christian Poetry in Classical Forms: The Codes of Visions from the Bodmer Papyri and the Melding of Literary Traditions” |
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Daniel Louis Schwartz *09 |
"Christian Education and Worship in the Making of the Late-antique Church: Paideia and Cult in the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia " |
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Nikitas Konstantinidis *08 |
“Essays on the Political Economy of International Union Formation and European Integration” |
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Filippos Papakonstantinou *08 |
"Essays in Economics" |
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Alessandra Ricci *08 |
"Reinterpretation of the ‘Palace of Bryas’: A Study in Byzantine Architecture, History and Historiography" |
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Jelena Bogdanovic *08 |
"Canopies: The Framing of Sacred Space in the Byzantine Ecclesiastical Tradition" |
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Nicola Merlenghi *07 |
"The Basilica of San Paolo fuori-le-mura, Rome" |
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David Allen Michelson *07 |
"Practice Leads to Theory: Orthodoxy and the Spiritual Struggle in the World of Philoxenos of Mabbug (470-523)" |
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Nancy Khalek *06 |
“From Byzantium to Early Islam: Studies on Damascus in the Umayyad Era" |
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Nikolas Bakirtzis *06 |
"Hagios Ioannis Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikeion: Byzantine Monastic Practice, Sacred Topography, and Architecture." |
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Dimitrios T. Dentsoras *06 |
"Virtue, Knowledge, and Happiness: Stoic moral theory and its Socratic and Platonic antecedents” |
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Antonis A. Ellinas *06 |
"Playing the Nationalist Cards: Mainstream Parties, Mass Media and Far Right Breakthroughs in Western Europe” |
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Ludovico Geymonat *06 |
"The Parma Baptistery and Its Pictorial Program" |
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Yumna Masarwa *06 |
“From a Word of God to Archaeological Monuments: A Historical-Archaeological Study of the Umayyad Ribats of Palestine" |
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William Faizi McCants *06 |
“Founding Forefathers : The Impact of the Greek and Arab Conquests on Native Histories of Culture” |
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Milen V. Petrov *06 |
“Tanzimat for the Countryside: Midhat Pasa and the Lilayet of Danube, 1864-1868” |
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Milette Gaifman *05 |
"Beyond Mimesis in Greek Religious Art: Aniconism in the Archaic and Classical Periods" |
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Elizabeth Anne Hough *05 |
"Contesting Place and Identity on a Greek Island" |
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Eileen Kane *05 |
"Pilgrims, Holy Places and the Multi-Confessional Empire: Russian Policy Toward the Ottoman Empire Under Tsar Nicolas I, 1825-1855" |
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Kyriaki Karoglou *05 |
"Attic Votive Plaques: A Study on their Iconography and Function" |
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Ipek Yosmaoglu-Turner *05 |
"The Priest's Robe and the Rebel's Rifle: Communal Conflict and the Construction of National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia 1878-1908" |
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Lisa Bailey *04 |
“Preaching and Pastoral Care in Late Antique Gaul: The Eusebius Galliconus Sermon Collection” |
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Volker Menze *04 |
"The Making of a Church: The Syrian Orthodox in the Shadow of Byzantium and the Papacy" |
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Christine M. Philliou*04 |
"Worlds, Old and New: Phanariot Networks and the Remaking of Ottoman Governance in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century" |
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Jelena Trkulja *04 |
"Aesthetics and Symbolism of Late Byzantine Church Facades, 1204-1453" |
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Zur Shalev *04 |
"Geographia Sacra: Cartography, Religion, and Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" |
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Helen Deborah Walberg *04 |
“The Marian miracle paintings of Alessandro Varotari (Il Padovanino, 1588-1649) : popular piety and painted proselytizing in seventeenth-century Venice” |
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S.M. Can Bilsel *03 |
"Architecture in the Museum: Displacement, Reconstruction and Reproduction of the Monuments of Antiquity in Berlin's Pergamon Museum" |
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Tamara Anne Griggs *03 |
“The Changing Face of Erudition Antiquaries in the Age of the Grand Tour” |
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Emily Maureen Mackil *03 |
“Koinon and Koinonia : Mechanisms and Structures of Political Collectivity in Classical and Hellenistic Greece” |
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Tine Luk Meganck *03 |
“Erudite Eyes : Artists and Antiquarians in the Circle Of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)” |
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Yannis Papadoyannakis *03 |
"Christian therapeia and politeia. The Apologetics of Theodoret of Cyrrhus against the Greeks" |
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Kimberly Bowes *02 |
“Possessing The Holy: Private Churches and Private Piety in Late Antiquity” |
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Andromache Karanika *02 |
“The Work of Poetry and the Poetics of Work: Women's Performances at Work in Early Greek Literature” |
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Margaret L. Laird *02 |
“Evidence in Context: The Public and Funerary Monuments of the Serviri Augustales at Ostia” |
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Nora Edith Laos *02 |
“Provençal Baptisteries: Early Christian Origins and Medieval Afterlife” |
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Christopher Lee *02 |
“Defining the Holy: Visions of the Ascetic in Late Antiquity” |
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Christopher MacEvitt *02 |
“Creating Christian Identities: Crusaders and Local Communities in the Levant, 1097-1187” |
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Roxani Margariti *02 |
“Like The Place of Congregation on Judgment Day: Maritime Trade and Urban Organization in Medieval Aden (Ca. 1083-1229)” |
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Efthymia Provata *02 |
“A Talent for Happiness: A Study of the Question of Happiness in Four Texts by Constantine P. Cavafy, Valery Larbaud’s Le Journal Intime de A.O. Barnabooth & James Joyce’s Ulysses, from within the Paradigm of Homer’s Odyssey and Odysseus’ Ithaca” |
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Stephanie Tcharos *02 |
“Beyond the Boundaries of Opera : Conceptions of Musical Drama in Rome, 1676-1710” |
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Megan Hale Williams *02 |
“Jerome’s Biblical Criticism and the Making of Christian Scholarship” |
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Onur Yildirim *02 |
“Diplomats and Refugees : Mapping the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922-1934” |
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Anastasios Papademetriou *01 |
“Ottoman Tax Farming and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate: n Examination of Sate and Curch in Ottoman Society (15-16th Century)” |
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Phillip Christos Allen *00 |
“The Last Despot : Ethnic Consciousness, Power Politics, and the Orthodox Church in Late Ottoman Syria” |
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Scott Bruce *00 |
“Uttering No Human Sound: Silence and Sign Language in Western Medieval Monasticism“ |
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Jennifer Hevelone-Harper *00 |
“Letters to the Great Old Man: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza” |
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Asen Kirin *00 |
"The Rotunda of St. George and Late Antique Serdica: From Imperial Palace to Episcopal Complex" |
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Jaclyn LaRae Maxwell *00 |
"Preaching to the Converted: John Chrysostom and his Audience in Antioch" |
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Michael Gaddis *99 |
"There is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence (History) in the Christian Roman Empire" |
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Randon Jerris *99 |
"Alpine Sanctuaries: Topography, Architecture, and Decoration of Early Medieval Churches in Bishopric of Chur” |
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Dimitrios Kargiotis *99 |
"Thinking Seeing: From the Subject to Poetry" |
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Nicholas Rand Moschovakis *99 |
“Providence In Early Modern English Tragedy: Discourse, Agency and Genre” |
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Nicholas Sambanis *99 |
"United Nations Peacekeeping in Theory and in Cyprus: (New Conceptual Approaches and Interpretations)" |
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Kevin Uhalde *99 |
"The Expectation of Justice, AD 400-700" |
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Nicola Frances Denzey *98 |
"Under a Pitiless Sky: Conversion, Cosmology and the Rhetoric of Enslavement to Fate in Second-Century Christian Sources" |
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Christina Maranci *98 |
“Medieval Armenian Architecture in Historiography: Josef Strzygowski and his Legacy” |
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Leonora Neville *98 |
"Local Provincial Elites in Eleventh Century Hellas and Peloponnese" |
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Amy Cassens Papalexandrou *98 |
"The Church of the Virgin of Skripou: Architecture, Sculpture and Inscriptions in Ninth-Century Byzantium" |
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Athanasios C. Papalexandrou *98 |
"Warriors, Youths, and Tripods: The Visual Poetics of Power in (Geometric and Early Archaic Greece" |
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Christine M. Philliou *98 |
“The Community of Smyrna/Izmir in 1821: Social Reality and Nationalist Ideologies” |
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Joel Thomas Walker *98 |
"'Your Heroic Deeds Give Us Pleasure!' Culture and Society in Christian Martyr Legends of Late Antique Iraq" |
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Robert George Weir *98 |
“Roman Delphi and its Pythian Games” |
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Jane Baun *97 |
"The Apocalypse of Anastasia in its Middle Byzantine Context" |
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Haim Goldfus *97 |
"Tombs and Burials in Churches and Monasteries of Byzantine Art and Palestine (324-628 A.D.)" |
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Georgios Ioannis Kassinis *97 |
"Industrial Reorganization and Inter-Firm Networking: In Search of Environmental Co-Location Economies" |
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Tina Najbjerg *97 |
“Public Painted and Sculptural Programs of the Early Roman Empire: A Case-study of the So-called Basilica in Herculaneum” |
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David E. Roessel *97 |
"In Byron’s Shadow: Modern Greece in English and American Literature from 1831 to 1914" |
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Marina Belovic *96 |
"Ravanica Monastery Fresco Paintings in medieval Art of the Balkans: Interpretation of its Iconographic and Programmatic Formulas; their Geneses and Implication" |
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Maria Davidis *96 |
“The Romance of Empire : Gender and Fantasies of Youth in Imperial Narratives, 1890-1930” |
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Maribel Dietz *96 |
“Travel Wandering and Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” |
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Tina Lynn Rodrigues *96 |
"The Old French Chronique De MorJ e: Historiographic-Romance Narrative, The Greek Context, and Courtoisie" |
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Elizabeth Key Fowden *95 |
“Sergius of Rusafa : Sacred Defense in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia “ |
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Noel Emmanuel Lenski *95 |
“Valens and the Forth Century Empire” |
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Robert Schick *95 |
“The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule : A Historical and Archaeological Study” |
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Demosthenes N. Tambakis *95 |
"Inflation, Delegation, and Credibility: Essays on the Political Economy of Monetary Policy" |
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Gonda Van Steen *95 |
"Aristophanes in Modern Greece: From Textual Reception to Performance Dialectics" |
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Dimitrios Kyriakou *94 |
"Trade Under Uncertainty and Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks by Integrating Economies: Theory and Practice in the Case of the EEC" |
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Ida Sinkevic *94 |
"The Church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi: Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture" |
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Catherine Fales Cooper *93 |
“Concord and Martyrdom : Gender, Community, and The Uses of Christian Perfection in Late Antiquity” |
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Rosemary Dubowchik *93 |
“A Chant for Feasts of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Byzantinum, and Medieval Europe” |
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Molly Greene *93 |
"Kandiye 1669-1720: The Formation of a Merchant Class" |
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Pavlos Vlassios Sfyroeras *92(Classics) |
“The Feast of Poetry : Sacrifice, Foundation, and Performance in Aristophanic Comedy” |
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Elizabeth Leigh Gibson *91 |
“The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporan Kingdom” |
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Derek Krueger *91 |
“Cynics, Christians, and Holy Fools : The Late Antique Contexts of Leontius of Neapolis’ Life of Symeon the Fool” |
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Richard Lim *91 |
“Public Disputation, Power and Social Order in Late Antiquity” |
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Ann Priester *89 |
"The Belltowers of Medieval Rome and the Architecture of the Renovation" |
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Christina Marie Dufner *88 |
“The Odyssey in the Argonautica : Reminiscence, Revision, Reconstruction” |
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Carla Maria Antonaccio *87 |
“The Archaeology of Early Greek ‘Hero Cult’” |
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Michael David Bonner *87 |
“The Emergence of the ThughūR : The Arab-Byzantine Frontier in the Early ἉbbāSid Age” |
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Joan Olivia Richardson *87 |
"The Byzantine Element in the Architecture and |
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Robert Russell *87 |
"'Vox Civitas': Aspects of 13th-Century Communal Architecture in Lombardy" |
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Nancy Jean Serwint *87 |
“Greek Athletic Sculpture from The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. : An Iconographic Study” |
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Arnon Groiss *86 |
“Religious Particularism and National Integration : Changing Perceptions of the Political Self-Identity Among the Greek-Orthodox Christians of Greater Syria, 1840-1914” |
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Mark Johnson *86 |
"Late Antique Imperial Mausolea" |
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Nicholas C. Papandreou *86 |
"Price Controls and Industry Structure in Greece: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" |
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Barbara Tsakirgis *84 |
“The Domestic Architecture of Morgantina in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods” |
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Stylianos Virvidakis *84 |
“Transcendental Arguments, Transcendental Idealism and Skepticism” |
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Nicholas Schidlovsky *83 |
“The Notated Lenten Prosomoia in the Byzantine and Slavic Traditions” |
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Rachel Hadas *82 |
"Form, Cycle, Infinity : Landscape Imagery in the Poetry of Robert Frost and George Seferis" |
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Nina M Athanassoglou-Kallmyer *80 |
"French Images From the Greek War of Independence : 1821-1827; Art And Politics Under the Restoration" |
Ph.D. Dissertations in the Sciences and Engineering
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Konstantinos Aisopos *12 |
"Fault Tolerant Architectures for On-Chip Networks" |
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Joshua Vandiver *12 |
"Ambition and Rebellion: Citizen Motivation and the Spirited Passions in the Political Thought of Plato and Xenophon" |
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Emmanouil Koukoumidis *11 |
“Collaborative and Adaptive Mobile Device-Resident Service Architectures”
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| Georgios Vasilakis *11 (Physics) |
"Precision Measurements of Spin Interactions with High Density Atomic Vapors" |
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Tatiana Emmanouil *09 |
"Attentional Limitations in the Statistical Processing of Perceptual Groups" |
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Konstantinos Rokas *09 |
"Essays in Political Economy and Industrial Organization" |
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Chrysanthos Gounaris *08 |
“Advances in Global Optimization and the Rational Design of Shape Selective Separations” |
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Maria Michalogiorgaki *08 |
"On Rational Blow-Downs of Smooth 4-Manifolds" |
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Alexandros Ntelekos *08 |
“Extreme Warm Season Thunderstorms and the Urban Environment” |
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Ilias Tagkopoulos *08 |
“Emergence of Predictive Capacity within Microbial Genetic Networks” |
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Agissilaos G. Athanassoulis *07 |
"Smoothed Wigner Transforms and Homogenization of Wave Propagation" |
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Georgios Michalogiorgakis *07 |
"Heavy Ion Collisions,Qusinormal Modes and Non-linear Sigma Models" |
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Evangelos Papageorgiou *07 |
"Single-name and Multi-name Credit Derivatives: Pricing and Calibration using Multiscale Asymptotic Method" |
M.A. Theses
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Konstantinos Bakis *11 |
"Structural health monitoring (SHM) and system damage indentification using time series analysis and pattern recognition techniques " |
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Efstathios Metsovitis *08 |
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Katherine Dhuey *02 |
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Alexander Bueno-Edwards *01(History) |
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Christine Philliou *98 |
"The Community of Smyrna/Izmir in 1821: Social Reality and Nationalist Ideologies" |
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Ipek Yosmaoglu *97 |
"Chasing the Printed Word Press Censorship in the Ottoman Empire under the Party of Union and Progress" |
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Robert Cro *95 |
M.P.A. Graduates
| Athanasios Cambanis *00 (Woodrow Wilson School) |