The CHS supports postdoctoral researchers with a variety of configurations. Fellows receive varying levels of support and may reside at the Center in Washington, DC for up to 18 weeks, depending on the scope of their proposed project. For information about CHS fellows based in Greece, see the CHS Greece website.
2025 Spring Residential Fellows in Hellenic Studies
Angelos Boufalis is an archaeologist, currently working under contract for the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and an Associate Researcher at the Epigraphy & Papyrology Laboratory at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a PhD in Greek Epigraphy from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020), a MA in the Classical Mediterranean from the University of Leicester (2013), and a BA in Archaeology and History of Art from the University of Crete (2007).
His research focuses on Greek inscriptions, especially graffiti, and has dealt with several aspects of the history and archaeology of the Greek World from the Early Iron Age through the Hellenistic period, including the political instrumentation of script, the ancient timber trade, and ancient attitudes toward mystery cults. He has also conducted and published ethnographic and historical research on rural Greece of the Modern era and on the development of archaeology as a science.
During his residency at the Center for Hellenic Studies he is completing a monograph on the epigraphy of Macedonia in the Archaic and Classical Periods, revising his PhD dissertation. This monograph aims to present a complete catalogue of the inscriptions on all mediums that have been found in pre-Hellenistic Macedonia and to provide, besides revised readings and commentaries, a detailed archaeological, epigraphic, linguistic, and onomastic study of the material.
Andrés Carrete is a Postdoctoral Fellow for Harvard’s Department of the Classics and the Center for Hellenic Studies. As part of his appointment, he is the academic program director for Harvard University’s “Scholars in Training” summer program – an initiative aiming to enhance and implement inclusive pedagogy for increased access and diversity in Classics.
Andrés holds a PhD and an MA in Classics from the University of California Santa Barbara as well as BA degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso. Before his appointment at the CHS, he was an early career postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
Andrés’ research interests include the Latin American reception of classics (especially Mexican reception), Greek tragedy, inclusive pedagogy, translation theory, ethics, and political philosophy. At the CHS, Andrés is working to complete his first monograph project. Said project examines the practice of adapting Sophocles’ Antigone in Mexico by utilizing concepts of heritage, monumentality, and philosophical conventions alongside scholarship of race, gender, and ethnicity.
David Kaufman specializes in Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine. He received his PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is Associate Professor in the Classics and Philosophy programs and co-founder and co-director of the Medical Humanities program at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY.
His current research focuses especially on ancient moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and the consolatory tradition. His recent publications include articles on Stoicism, Galen, Greek Tragedy, Roman Epic, and Greek and Roman Science and Race.
While at the Center for Hellenic Studies, David is working with Jackie Murray on several projects, including a book project on the Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s Dialogues, an article on Race in Plato’s Republic, and another shorter book project on Race and Slavery in Plato’s Republic.
Alexandra Madeła is a Teaching Assistant at Trinity College Dublin. After gaining her PhD in Classics from Trinity College in 2021, she worked as an Assistant Lecturer at Maynooth University and the University of St Andrews. As an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023), she investigated the complex relationship between the late antique Argonautica by Orpheus with the epic poetry of Homer and Apollonius Rhodius. Working as a postdoctoral fellow at Warsaw University’s Center for Research on Ancient Civilizations (2023-2024), she studied the impact of ancient geographical scholarship on Homer on versions of the Troy myth in late antiquity. Her first monograph, The Argonautika by Orpheus: Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity, has recently been published by Brill.
At the CHS, she will be working on a monograph investigating the interaction between ancient literary scholarship, particularly scholarship on Homer, and the poetry of late antiquity. This project highlights how epics such as Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, Quintus’ Posthomerica, Triphiodorus’ Sack of Troy, Ps-Orpheus’ Argonautica, and Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen incorporate answers to the questions that ancient scholars asked about Homer’s vocabulary, mythography, and divine apparatus. On one hand, her research will seek to illuminate how strongly late antique poets, who were trained extensively in interpreting various aspects of the Homeric epics, were influenced by these ancient philological debates. On the other hand, she will discuss how epic hexameter poetry – and not solely prose treatises – contributed to the debate about the ‘correct’ ways of reading Homer and other literature considered canonical in late antiquity.
Jackie Murray is an Associate Professor of Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research areas and publications are in Hellenistic and Latin Poetry, Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity, and Black Classicisms, the reception of Classics in African American and Afro-Caribbean literature. She is co-editor with Rosa Andújar (Columbia University) and Elena Giusti (Cambridge University) of the Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, which will be published later this year, 2025. She is working on a collection of essays, Apollonius’ Rhodius’ Poetics of Controversy, under contract with CHS /Harvard University Press.
This academic year, 2024-25, she is a fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, working with David Kaufman on a few publications, including a book project on the Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s Dialogues, an article on Race in Plato’s Republic and another shorter book project on Race and Slavery in Plato’s Republic. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Lord Byron Medal; for 2022-23, she was the John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities at the American Academy in Berlin, where she worked on the Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s Phaedo, what will likely be the first chapter of the current Plato and Slavery book; and in 2011-12, she was the Andrew Heiskell/NEH Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Academy. She is also co-president of EOS Africana receptions of Classical Greece and Rome.
Enrique Nieto Izquierdo earned his PhD in Madrid with a comprehensive grammar of the Ancient Greek dialects spoken in the Argolis region. Since then, his primary field of research has been Ancient Greek dialectology, with a particular focus on the Doric branch, encompassing Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicon, and Onomastics. He is the author of four monographs, the most recent being Prosopographie et onomastique des Épidauriens (Droz, 2024), as well as over fifty scholarly articles. These contributions have been made possible through various postdoctoral contracts and fellowships in both France and Spain.
At the CHS, he plans to finish his fifth monograph: a new collection of dialectal inscriptions from the Doric islands of the Aegean. This work will include re-edited texts accompanied by a full commentary, aiming to offer insights not only into the dialects themselves but also into the historical and cultic contexts of the region.
Esen Ogus is an archaeologist and art historian. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and has worked as a field archaeologist with past and current projects in Aphrodisias (Caria) and Perge (Pamphylia). Her current research focuses on the visual culture and social history of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity.
At the CHS, she is working on her second monograph, on the downfall of the honorific statues between the fourth and sixth centuries C.E. The end of the honorific statue production, after almost 1,000 years, has a large ‘ecology’ of reasons that made the statue habit no longer reasonable, meaningful, or sustainable. There is, however, no comprehensive book-length evaluation that identifies and scrutinizes the multifaceted reasons, certainly none that places cultural changes in dialogue with the legislative reforms and civic politics. Her book examines the demise of statues in two main parts: (1) Political and administrative reasons, namely legal changes, administrative reforms, and historical context; (2) cultural reasons, most particularly the dissemination of Christianity and the ontological perception of honorific statues. This monograph, documenting the long-lasting popularity and the following demise of honorific statues, provides a historical model for the human tendency to establish compulsive attachments to inanimate things, and the conditions under which these attachments came to a dissolution.
Kelli Rudolph is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Philosophy at the University of Kent, where she brings analytic philosophical, philological, and historical approaches together to explore how philosophy shapes and is shaped by its transmission and reception in new intellectual contexts. Her work on Stoicism has developed from an earlier interest in ancient science and perception, which inspired her to intervene in the developing field of sensory studies in Classics, with Taste and the Ancient Senses. Previous research funded by the British Academy explored The Logic and Perception of Persuasion in Stoicism. While at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Kelli is beginning a new project, Stoic Individualism. Undertaking a comprehensive analysis of the ancient Stoic underpinnings for the modern popular Stoic model for theorizing about behavior and moral action. Kelli’s research aims to demonstrate how the individualizing tendencies of Stoicism’s modern forms fail to capture its value for addressing the challenges facing individuals and society today.
Kazuhiro Takeuchi specializes in ancient Greek history and epigraphy, particularly in Athens and the demes of Attica. He received his PhD in Classical Archaeology from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2019. Kazuhiro was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Nagoya University (2021-2024). He is preparing a monograph on the cults of Dionysos in the Attic demes based on his dissertation. As a joint fellow at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, he was working on the preparation of a new edition of Inscriptiones Graecae II/III3 that presents all Attic decrees of tribes, demes, phratries, gene, and Tetrapolis from after 403 BCE. He was intensively conducting autopsies of inscribed stones and making transcripts, especially for deme decrees, at the museums in Athens and beyond, on which his library research at the Center for Hellenic Studies will ground. While in DC, he will draft each entry, apparatus criticus, history of scholarship, and historical commentary. His IG project is also in collaboration with Attic Inscriptions Online.
Trevor Van Damme received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from UCLA. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Archaeology & History of the Ancient Mediterranean at the University of Warwick. His past and ongoing research projects investigate human-environmental interaction, collapse and resilience, urbanisation, ancient economics, and intercultural encounters, through the multi-method study of large assemblages of pottery spanning from the Late Bronze Age into the Late Classical period. An active field archaeologist, he is a current co-director of the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project and a Greek pottery specialist for the Athenian Agora Excavations.
At the Center for Hellenic Studies, he will be working on a monograph project, A New History of Early Athens (1450–650 BCE): Environmental, Technological, and Societal Transformations, which reconsiders historical narratives (past and present) about the development of Athens during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages based on archaeological finds recovered in the 1930s from the north slope of the Athenian Acropolis. In doing so, his monograph draws renewed attention to the impact of climate variability and migrant communities in the development of the Iron Age polis, challenging the veracity of ancient Athenian claims of autochthony.
Jennifer Weintritt is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Core Faculty in the Comparative Literary Studies Program at Northwestern University. Her research spans Greek and Latin poetry, with a special focus on Roman epic and its reception of Greek poetry and literary criticism. While at the Center, she is revising her first book, The Greek Epic Cycle in Roman Poetry: Serial Storytelling and the Poetics of Continuation, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. The book contends that the Epic Cycle and the continuative storytelling techniques that ancient critics attributed to it was an important model for Roman poets working within the Trojan War tradition. Work related to her book has been published with the American Journal of Philology (“More Useful and More Trustworthy? The Reception of the Greek Epic Cycle in Scholia to Homer, Pindar, and Euripides,” 2023) and in an edited volume on Homer’s continuators (“‘And the Will of Zeus was Fulfilled’: Prophecy and Seriality in the Epic Cycle and the Aeneid,” 2025).