Thomas Glantz (Outstanding Senior in Ancient Studies) is currently studying American Indian cultures, Environmental Archaeology and improving his archaeological fieldwork techniques. He will be working as a field technician upon graduation and then applying to graduate school for prehistoric North American archaeology.

Robert Bennett (Christopher Sherwin Award) is a non-traditional, commuter student who is majoring in Ancient Studies and History. He is a member of the Honors College and he plans to attend graduate school.

Christina Ross (Robert and Jane Shedd Award for Excellence in Ancient Studies)
will attend George Washington University in their Museum Studies program, where she has received a fellowship. She will be working as a Graduate Fellow, Assistant Marketing Coordinator, for their Mount Vernon campus' event planning office.

David Cunningham (William and Martha Christopher Award) will be taking a semester off and then going to graduate school in History at either Johns Hopkins or Catholic University with a focus on late Roman and early Medieval History.

Chiu Yee Hui (Diane Zdenek Award) will be taking more museum studies classes and applying for museum internships in the coming summer and next fall.

“Political Displays in Art Museums: How Italy Exhibits Objects Repatriated from the United States”

Presented by: Christina Ross
Mentor: Dr. Richard Mason
10:30-10:45 a.m.

“Beyond Barriers: A Comparison of Hadrian's Wall in Britain and the Han Dynasty Wall in China”

Presented by: Jocelyn Lee
Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Koehler
10:45-11:00 a.m.

“De Oratore as a Justification for Rhetoric in Rome”

Presented by: Jake Shilling
Mentor: Dr. Anna Peterson
11:00-11:15 a.m.

“Sardinian Evidence of the Perfect Auxiliary ESSE: A Romance Development”

Presented by: William Johnson
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Field
11:15-11:30 a.m.

“Philistines in the North? An Examination of Mass Migration to the Northern Levant in the Early Iron Age”

Presented by: Catherine Pasqualoni
Mentors: Ms. Laura Wright and Dr. Marylin Goldberg
11:30-11:45 a.m.

The Res Classicae is the newsletter for the Ancient Studies Department. It is released once every semester, and distributed electronically in PDF format through an email mailing list. To subscribe to this mailing list, contact our Administrative Assistant Mary Welsh at mwelsh@umbc.edu.

Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Time: 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Albin O. Kuhn Library- 7th Floor, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250

For more information, or to make reservations, download our flyer.

(Reunion, 2003)