Classics

Michaiah Kojoian received her BA in Classics (minor in Mathematics) from Providence College with an Honors Thesis entitled “Beneath the Surface: Hadrian’s Underground Contributions to Roman Greece.” She was also the recipient of the Leroy D. Aaronson, M.D. Award for Academic Excellence in Undergraduate Studies in Greek and Latin and the Highest GPA Award in the Department of History and Classics. In 2024 she graduated with her MA in Classics from Tufts University where she also served as a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate language and ‘culture’ courses. As a graduate student, she contributed digitally edited editions of selected Greek and Latin texts in the form of treebanks (in which every word, phrase, and clause is fully morphologically and syntactically identified, and dependent upon the word, phrase, or clause it modifies) to the Perseids Project (a subset of the Perseus Project). She was one of the winners for the department’s translation contest in 2022, and won Second Place and ‘People’s Choice’ at Tufts University’s Graduate Student Council’s Three-minute Thesis Competition (3MT) in 2023. Her thesis, directed by Professor Andreola Rossi and entitled “Novus Heros: A Narratological Study of Aeneas’ Apologoi in Light of Homer’s Odyssey,” investigated the narrational strategies of Aeneas and Odysseus throughout their respective hero’s stories. Her research interests include Greek and Latin epic poetry, aqueduct construction, Republican and early Imperial Rome, and early Christian texts.