The Senior Program

During their senior year, all classics concentrators work closely with a faculty member on one-semester independent research projects of their choosing.

Some recent senior projects in classics include:

• Motherhood and Martyrdom in the Passion of Perpetua: A Reconciliation of Nurture and Violence in the Early Church
• Who Were the Carthaginians?: Fact versus Fiction
• Fake News and the Dangerous Legacy of a Martyrdom Complex: How Popular Misconceptions about Martyrdom in the Early Church Still Create Real Barriers to Compassion and Dialogue Today
• Deconstructing the Gender Binary: Social Transgression in The Acts of Paul and Thecla
• Martyrdom's Evolution Through Classical Western Civilization
• Making a Martyr: The Life and Afterlife of Thiemo of Salzburg
• Gender in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis: Implications of Masculinity and Femininity
• The Origin of Famine: Amartya Sen and Ancient Rome
• From Potato-Sellers to Prostitutes: Evidence of Working Women in Classical Athens