The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the 2026–27 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The fellowship programs encourage research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece.
Fellowships in Hellenic Studies
Academic Year (Fall 2026 & Spring 2027)
Francesca Beretta, “The Motionscape of Greek Tragedy”
Zhixi Wang, “The Inanimate, the Animate and the Virtuous: Plato on Self-Motion and Freedom”
Fall 2026
Christopher Atkins, “Plato among the People: Philosophy and Popular Religion in Classical Athens”
Joseph Badawi-Crook, “Greek-Sanskrit Genealogical Comparison: Methodology, Formula, Affect”
Malina Buturović, “The Transmission of Fault: Heredity Between Medicine and Theology”
Anne Duray, “Hellenism, Archaeological Practice, and the Creation of Cultural Continuity”
Edith Foster, “Reconceiving the Central Books of Thucydides’ History“
Erynn Kim, “The Liminal Spaces of Dreams and Similes: Gilgamesh, Homer, and the Poetics of Vividness”
Catherine McKeen, “Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Texts and Contexts”
Dalia Pratali Maffei, “Modelling Dialect Mixture in Hellenistic Rhodes: Bridging Speech and Poetry”
Spring 2027
Christina Filippaki, “The Multiverse of Euripides’ Atreidai Plays”
Ben Folit-Weinberg, “On the Road: Thinking through the “hodos” in early Greece”
Eduardo García-Molina, “Empire by the Books: Documents, Archives, and Seals within the Seleukid Empire”
Bryant Kirkland, “The Owl and the Peacock: Reading Dio Chrysostom”
Rachel Lesser, “Queer and Straight Trajectories in the Trojan War Epic Tradition”
Matteo Milesi, “Philology and Philosophy in Porphyry of Tyre”
Najee Olya, “Envisioning Africa and Africans in Ancient Greek Art and Culture: Artifacts, Contexts, and Race”
Sailakshmi Ramgopal, “Romans Abroad: Identity, Place, and Empire”
Gabriel Shapiro, “Debates about Existence in Ancient Greek Philosophy”
Claudia Yau, “Wisdom and Political Expertise in Plato’s Republic”
CHS-Institute for Historical Research Joint Fellowship
Jan Sienkiewicz, “Warriors Around the Krater: The Prehistoric Origins of the Ancient Greek Symposium”
Summer Fellowships in Hellenic Studies
Giovanna Di Martino, “The Ecology of Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (1518–1730)”
Cecilia Li, “The Unity of Σωφροσύνη: Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides“
Mills McArthur, “A Cultural History of Athenian Sea Power”
Brennan McDavid, “Producing the Good: Plato’s Political Economy”
Andrew Merritt, “Beauty and the Beautiful in Greek and Indo-European: A Study in Morphology, Etymology, and Conceptual Relations”
Early Career Fellowships in Greece and Cyprus
Dafni Argyri, “Aristotle and the Matter of Life”
Konstantinos Fakkas, “Claudius and Greek Culture: From Upbringing to Imperial Ideology”
Edyta Marzec, “Ceramic Foodscapes: Pottery and Agricultural Economies in the Hellenistic Cyclades”
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, “The Sacred Groves of Northwest Greece: Bridging Landscape Archaeology and Environmental History”
Aphrodite Vlachou, “Reconsidering Spartan Religion: Tracing Votive Traditions and Cultural Exchange through the Amyklaion Bronzes”
Fellowship in AI Ethics
Danai Liodaki, “Materialising AI: Critical Geographies and Ecologies of Data in Peripheral Greece”
Predoctoral Fellowships in Hellenic Studies
Christos Frosynakis, “Mirroring and Focalization: The Characterization of Laocoon in the Posthomerica“
Angeliki Oikonomou, “Embodied Paths: Feet on the Ground and the Power of Ritual Gait”
Gerasimos Trasanis, “Fortified Sites and Structured Space in Upper Macedonia”