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James Flynn
Ph.D. Student in Classics, admitted Autumn 2023
Master of Arts Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2024Current Research and Scholarly InterestsJames Flynn is a PhD student in Ancient History. He focuses on the political, economic, and religious history of ancient Greece, and on connections with other contemporary societies, particularly ancient India. He is interested in the role of religion in legitimizing political institutions from a comparative perspective, and the separation of political from religious authority in the Greek poleis. For his undergraduate thesis at Brown, he compared trends among Hellenistic philosophers and Indian ascetics of withdrawal from society. For his Master’s capstone project at Yale, he wrote about the historical impact of climate change on 1st century BCE South Asia. He is concurrently pursing a second MA in religious studies, with a focus on Indian religions, and he studies the languages Sanskrit and Pali in addition to Latin and Greek. He is interested in using epigraphy and papyrology for historical sources. He is also interested in applying social scientific methods to large, cross-cultural datasets, looking for long-term trends in ancient history.
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Kate Folk
Affiliate, English
BioKate Folk's writing has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, the New York Times Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Granta, Conjunctions, One Story, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. She's received support from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She holds a BA from New York University and an MFA from the University of San Francisco, and is an editor at Joyland Magazine. Originally from Iowa, she's lived in San Francisco since 2008.
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Sean Follmer
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHuman Computer Interaction, Haptics, Robotics, Human Centered Design
