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Amanda Gaggioli
Ph.D. Student in Classics, admitted Autumn 2016
BioAmanda is a Ph.D candidate on the Classical Archaeology track. She received a B.A. with honors in both Archaeology and Classics with a minor in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University. She also completed an MA in Anthropology at Stanford. Amanda’s research includes interdisciplinary approaches that combine ancient textual, archaeological, and natural scientific approaches to past human-geological environmental relationships, in particular earthquakes and associated seismic phenomena, in the eastern Mediterranean. Her research interests include human-enviornment relationships, resilience archaeology, archaeological science, geoarchaeology, soil micromorphology, archaeoseismology, resilience archaeology, traditional environmental knowledge, and the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age transition in the eastern Mediterranean. Her PhD research includes archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece, spanning the third millennium BCE to fifth century CE, that aims at understanding how people were impacted by and responded to earthquakes and associated seismic hazards over both the short- and long-terms. She analyzes ancient textual sources that document earthquakes together with the material and geological residues of earthquakes from the archaeological record. She applies the techniques and approaches of archaeoseismology and soil micromorphology on targeted samples of architectural and geomorphological remains in order to determine relationships between humans, geological environmental change, and disaster both in the context of ‘collapse’ during the Late Bronze Age and also across temporal and spatial scales.
Amanda currently holds a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, National Geographic Early Career Grant, and a Multi-Country Fellowship with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in support of her interdisciplinary dissertation research and fieldwork in Greece and Cyprus and her memberships with the American School of Classical Studies and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute.
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Linda Galvane
Ph.D. Student in Japanese, admitted Autumn 2012
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current doctoral dissertation marks the first critical examination of modern and contemporary Japanese literature through the lens of excrement as a literary and rhetorical device. I argue that excremental rhetoric, more than any other subject matter, has a unique potential to illuminate the multiplicity of discourses that play out within literary production because the stigmatized status of excrement always necessitates engagement with multiple discourses.
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Dillon Gisch
Ph.D. Student in Classics, admitted Autumn 2014
Master of Arts Student in Anthropology, admitted Winter 2016BioDillon Gisch is currently Arthur Ross / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and PhD Candidate in Classical Archaeology at Stanford University.
His dissertation investigates how ancient viewers understood replication and difference in images of "modest Venus" in the Roman world. He also has broad interests in Hellenistic and Roman visual culture; social archaeology and art history; the historiographies of classical art and archaeology; gender and ethnicity; collecting, museum, and heritage ethics; and the analysis of humanistic legacy data.
Previously, he received his BA in Classical Studies and Art History with Distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Washington (Seattle). He has worked as a gallerist of early modern and modern (1450–1970) European, American, and Japanese graphic art on paper at Davidson Galleries in Seattle. He has also excavated in central Italy at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) and Cosa. One portion of his ongoing dissertation research has been featured on The Europe Center's website. -
Danielle Greene
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2017
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2017
Ph.D. Minor, LinguisticsBioDanielle Greene is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE) and Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (CTE) programs at the Graduate School of Education. From Virginia, Danielle previously taught middle school Social Studies in an urban district before coming to Stanford. Focusing on the social context of education, her research explores teaching cultures and language practices within K-12 public schools that have majority African American students, faculty, and staffs. Specifically, Danielle centers African American resistances to linguistic, cultural, and physical Black displacement and dispossession in schools and their surrounding communities.
