Ph.D. in Ancient History
About
Originally from the small town of Loris, South Carolina, Hannah graduated from the College of Charleston, Honors College, in 2017. At CofC, she received two degrees, a B.A. in History and an A.B. in Classics, where she wrote her Bachelor’s essay, “Graecia capta: the Hellenization of the Late Roman Republic,” and her senior capstone, “Identity Along the Via Egnatia.” She then went on to pursue her Master’s in Classics at Florida State University and received her M.A. in Classical Civilizations in 2019. Her Master’s thesis, “Illuminating the Soul: Livy’s Parallel Lives of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus,” sought to demonstrate Livy’s composition of parallel lives between the Carthaginian Hannibal and the Roman Scipio Africanus, in which Livy portrays how the Roman consul and the Carthaginian general complete one another’s historical narratives.
Her current interests are in the political and cultural history of the middle and late Roman Republic; ethnicity and identity in Greece under Roman imperialism; Macedonian history; Greek and Roman history and historiography; Republican and Hellenistic epigraphy.
