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Ph.Ds Awarded by the Group

1975-76
Philip V. Stanley "Ancient Greek Market Regulations and Controls" (R. Sealey)

1976-77
Jack L. Cargill "The Second Athenian League: Its Context, Organization and Nature" (R. Sealey)

Bonnie M. Kingsley "Tarentine Terracotta Moulds and Reliefs in the J. Paul Getty Museum" (R.S. Stroud)

1977-78
Cathleen Keller "The Painters of Deir el-Medina in the Ramesside Period" (L.H. Lesko)

John Pollini "Studies in the Augustan 'Historical' Reliefs" (E.S. Gruen)

1978-79
Robert Bauslaugh "Neutrality in Ancient Greece: Its History to the end of the 5th Century B.C." (R.S. Stroud)

C. Wilfred Griggs "Egyptian Christianity to 451 A.D."(L.H. Lesko)

A. Bernard Knapp "A Re-examination of the Interpretation of Cypriote Material Culture in the MCII-LCI Period in the Light of Textual Data" (A.D. Kilmer and J.K. Anderson)

1979-80
Yoko Tomabechi "Wall Paintings and Color Pigments of Ancient Mesopotamia" (G. Azarpay)

1980-81
Glenn Markoe "Engraved Metal Bowls of the Cypro-Phoenician Tradition" (G. Azarpay)

1982-83
Darice Birge "Groves in the Ancient World" (S.G. Miller)

Robert Edwards "The Fortifications of Medieval Cilicia" (J.K. Anderson)

Michael Maas "Innovation and Restoration in Justinianic Constantinople" (P.R.L. Brown)

Michael Weiskopf "Achaemenid Systems of Governing in Anatolia" (E.S. Gruen)

1984-85
Richard Billows "Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State" (E.S. Gruen)

Barbara McLauchlin "The Lydian Graves and Burial Customs" (C.H. Greenewalt)

Paula Perlman "Theoroi and Theorodokoi-Relationships between Polis and Sanctuary in Ancient Greece" (R.S. Stroud)

1985-86
Jehon Grist "The Identity of the Ramessid Queen Tyti" (K.R. Weeks)

Melvin Hunt "The Iron Age Pottery of the Yoqne'Am Regional Project" (A. Kilmer, D. Stronach)

1986-87
Sara Aleshire "The Athenian Asklepieion: The People, Their Dedications and the Inventories" (R.S. Stroud)

Scott Bradbury "Innovation and Reaction in the Age of Constantine and Julian" (P.R.L. Brown)

Lisa Kallet "Financial Resources and Athenian Public Finance in Thucydides" (R. Sealey & R.S. Stroud)

Robert Morstein-Marx "The Emergence of the Eastern Roman Provinces" (E.S. Gruen)

Ann Kuttner "The Boscoreale Cups of Augustus:Studies in Augustan Art and Politics" (E.S. Gruen & A.F. Stewart)

Joseph Scholten "Aetolian Foreign Policy in the Era of Expansion, ca. 290-217 B.C. (E.S. Gruen)

1990-91
Joanne Heffelfinger "Athenian Prodosia in the Sources of the Classical Period" (R.S. Stroud)

1991-92
Nicholas Cahill "Olynthiaka 7: Aspects of Spatial Organization in the City of Olynthus" (C.H. Greenewalt)

Leda Ciraolo "Conjuring an Assistant: Paredroi in the Greek Magical Papyri" (J.K. Anderson)

Merilyn Copland "The 10th and 9th Century Pottery of Tel Batash and Problems of Regional Settlement in the Northern Shephelah" (V.R. Gold & D.B. Stronach)

Alison Futrell "Circles Across the Land: Roman Amphitheaters in a Provincial Context" (R.C. Knapp)

Jeremy McInerney "Beneath the Folds of Parnassos: Topography and the Emergence of the Phokian Ethnos" (R.S. Stroud)

1992-93
Marianne Nicols "Appearance and Reality. A Study of the Clientele of Pompey the Great" (E.S. Gruen)

1993-94
Chris Hallett "The Roman Heroic Portrait" (A.F. Stewart)

Michael Ierardi "Studies in the Age of Agathokles of Syracuse: The Coinage" (E.S. Gruen)

Duane March "The Family of Konon and Timotheus" (R. Sealey)

Sharon Steadman "Isolation vs. Interaction: The Role of Prehistoric Cilicia in the Near Eastern World System" (R. Tringham)

John Wonder "Paestum: The Lucanian Occupation ca.400-273 B.C." (J.K. Anderson)

1994-95
Eric Orlin "The Romans and Alien Cults: A Study in Public Policy" (E.S. Gruen)

Peter Wyetzner "The Social and Cultural Contexts of Roman Sumptuary Intervention" (E.S. Gruen & D. Cohen)

1995-96
Sara Johnson "Third Maccabees: Jewish Romance? Historical Fictions and Jewish Self-Fashioning in the Hellenistic Period" (E.S. Gruen)

1996-97
Steven K. Ross "Towards a History of Roman Edessa: 114-242 C.E. (E.S. Gruen)

1997-98
Daniel Caner "Wandering, Begging Monks, Social Order, and the Promotion Monasticism in the Roman East, 360-451 C.E." (S. Elm)

Leah Johnson "Roma et Italia:From the Gracchi to Cicero,133-63 B.C." (E.S. Gruen)

Beth Severy "Reconceiving the Res Publica:Family and State at the Birth of the Empire" (E.S. Gruen)

1998-99
George John Lolos "A Contribution to the Topography of Ancient Sikyonia: Roads and Defense Installations"(S.G. Miller and R.S. Stroud)

Molly Richardson "The Nomothetai in Fourth-century Athens" (R.S. Stroud)

1999-2000
Judy Gaughan "Murder is Not a Crime: An Investigation into the Nature of Roman Public Law" (E.S. Gruen)

Martha G. Jenks "From Queen to Bishop: A Political Biography of Radgund of Poiters." (S. Elm)

Cecilia M. Peek "'She hath Pursued Conclusions Infinite': A Biography of Cleopatra VII" (E.S. Gruen)

2002-03
Ory Amitay "Alexander Mythistoricus" (E.S. Gruen)

Angela Buxton "Lydian Royal Dedications in Greek Sanctuaries" (C. Greenewalt)

Bridget Buxton "Rome at the Crossroads, 6 BCE - 4 CE" (E.S. Gruen)

Celina Gray "Self-Representation of "Milesioi' on the Sculpted Gravestones of Roman Attica" (A. Stewart)

Jeannette Marchand "Well-built Kleonai: A History of the Peloponnesian City Based on a Survey of the Visible Remains and a Study of the Literary and Epigraphic Sources" (S.G. Miller and R.S. Stroud)

2003-04
Josephine M. Crawley "Imperialism and Culture in North Africa: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Eras" (E.S. Gruen)

Sandra Gambetti "The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews: A Historical Assessment" (E.S. Gruen)

Matthew P. Gonzales "Cults and Sanctuaries of Ares and Enyalios" (R.S. Stroud)

Athena Hadji "The Construction of Time in Aegean Archaeology: Archaeological Time and Third Millennium BC Aegean Chronology" (R. Tringham)

2005-2006
Jorge Bravo "The Hero Shrine of Opheltes/Archemoros at Nemea: A Case Study of Ancient Greek Hero Cult" (S.G. Miller)

Kieran Hendrick "Roman Emperors and Athenian Life, from Augustus to Hadrian" (E.S. Gruen)

Kenneth Jones "Provincial Reactions to Roman Imperialism: The Aftermath of the Jewish Revolt, A.D. 66-70" (E.S. Gruen)

Isabelle Pafford "Cult Fees and the Ritual of Money in Greek Sanctuaries of the Classical and Hellenistic Period" (R.S. Stroud)

2006-2007
John M. Frey “Speaking through Spolia: A study of the Language of Architectural Reuse in Late Roman Greece” (Prof. C. Hallett)

2007-2008
Jessica Nitschke “Interpreting Influence:Cultural Borrowing and its Limits in Ancient Phoenicia" (Prof. E.Gruen)

Elisabeth O'Connell “Tombs for the Living: Ascetic Communities in Late   Antique Egypt.” (Susanna Elm)

2008-2009
Amelia Brown “The City of Corinth and Urbanism in Late Antique Greece.” (Susanna Elm)

Jason Schlude “Rome, Parthia, and Empire: The First Century of Roman-Parthian Relations.” (Erich Gruen)

2009-2010
Carolynn Roncaglia “State Impact in Imperial Northern Italy.” (E. Gruen, C. Norena)

Michael Laughy “Ritual and Authority in Early Athens” (E. Mackil, J. Camp)

2010-2011
Ryan Boehm “Synoikism, Urbanization, and Empire in the Early Hellenistic Period.” (E. Mackil)

Timothy Doran “Demographic Fluctuation and Institutional Response in Sparta.” (E. Mackil)

Jeffrey Pearson “Contextualizing the Nabataeans: A Critical Reassessment of their History and Material Culture.” (E. Gruen)

Amy Russell “The Definition of Public Space in Republican Rome.” (E. Gruen)

Joel Rygorsky “Economies of Archaic Sicily: The Archaeological Evidence from the Northeastern Euboian Settlements.” (E. Mackil)