Classics Graduate Students
Samuel Barnes
Samuel Barnes received his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a concentration in Classics from Howard University in 2024, as well as a minor in Philosophy. Samuel is most interested in Roman historiography, particularly from Late Antiquity. His research primarily focuses on decline narratives and other historiographic methods of ancient authors and how it relates to the sociopolitical context of their respective time periods.
Email: samubarn@ttu.edu
Tarynn Callier
I am a third-year M.A. student and Teaching Assistant in the Classics department. In the spring of 2022 I received my Bachelors degree in Anthropology with minors in Archaeological Practice and American Indian Studies from the Universy of Texas at San Antonio. My current research interests include Roman burials and religion, zooarchaeology, and race and gender relations in antiquity. I recently completed a field season in Sardinia working on the Sinis Archaeology Project, which I also plan to attend next summer."
Email: kagruber@ttu.edu
Nicholas Caraballo
I am a third-year M.A. student and Teaching Assistant. I graduated from the University of Rochester in 2021 with a B.A. in Computer Science and Italian Studies. The following academic year, I enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania’s Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies. My research interests include Roman poetry of the Late Republic and Early Empire, Greek epic, and early Christian philosophy.
Email: ncarabal@ttu.edu
Nathan Gring
I am a second year graduate student and assistant editor for the Helios journal. I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Classics at Texas Tech in 2022. During my undergraduate, I was a research assistant for The Contzen Project; I researched and helped translate book 10 of Adam Contzen’s Politicorum, which focused on Just War Theory. Over my years at Texas Tech, I have become interested in the intersection of philosophy and theology in Greco-Roman literature and the theology of landscape in Greco-Roman myth.
Email: Nathan.Gring@ttu.edu
Colton Levi
Colton Levi received his B.A. in English and Classical Studies from the University of South Carolina in the spring of 2024. He is currently a first-year M.A. Student and Teaching Assistant. His interests include imperial Roman epic, Roman satire, and Stoic philosophy. He is primarily interested in ecological criticism and exploring the use and treatment of nature in ancient literature.
Email: colevi@ttu.edu
Zachary McVay
Zachary McVay graduated Summa cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2014 with his B.A. in International Letters and Cultures, with focus in the Latin language. Following graduation, he spent the subsequent decade teaching in schools throughout Arizona, in subjects ranging from Latin, to elementary grades’ Greek, Human Health, Creative Writing, French, Greek Mythology, and Art History, earning his Arizona Board of Education teaching licensure for Latin in 2021. His research interests include religion in Late Antiquity, the so-called Constantinian Shift, as well as the developments in colloquial Latin of the period as led to the formation of Romance languages.
Email: zmcvay@ttu.edu
Haley Mimms
I’m a first-year MA student and teaching assistant. I graduated from Texas Tech University in 2023 with a B.A. in Classics and minors in Greek and Studio Drawing. In my time as an undergraduate, I spent a year studying art education then made the switch to the classics department! I received the Lionel A. Jirgensons Latin Scholarship in the spring of 2022 and the spring of 2023. My research interests include—but are not limited to— gender in the ancient world, art history, film studies, Greek and Roman religion and myth, and the occasional Greek iambic poem.
Email: Haley.Mimms@ttu.edu
Matthew Robertson
I'm a first-year graduate student and teaching assistant. I graduated from Stony Brook University in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology. I am studying classical archaeology, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek. My interests revolve around ancient religion, mythology, Latin teaching and pedagogy, and archaeological theory and practice.
Email: rob16867@ttu.edu
Matthew Salonich
I'm a first-year classics student and teaching assistant here at Texas Tech. I earned my bachelor's with highest honors from the University at Buffalo with a major in classics and a minor in anthropology. My interests include Greco-Roman military history and archaeology. I am particularly interested in researching the military of the Mid-Late Roman Republic and the Early Empire, and their interactions during the Hellenistic period with the militaries of the Diadochi, the successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great.
Email:msalonic@ttu.edu
Gracie Singleton
I graduated summa cum laude from Millsaps College in 2023 with a B.A. in both Greek and Roman Studies and Anthropology. During my undergraduate I became a research assistant on the Ancient Graffiti Project in 2021 and in Spring 2022 I attended the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. My undergraduate thesis explored Egyptian Gnosticism during the 2nd-3rd centuries and the role of women as compared with texts that would later become canonical. My research interests include early Christianity, mystery religions, ancient graffiti, Late Republican Rome, Middle Kingdom Egypt, and the lived experiences of people throughout the ancient world.
Email: grasingl@ttu.edu
Amanda Ulloa-Sellers
I am a first-year M.A. student and teaching assistant. Originally from Las Vegas, NV, I received my B.A. in both Classical Studies and Communication from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2024. For my double honors Bachelors’ theses on themes of colonialism, Classical pedagogy, and Latin American reception, I won the 2024 Rudolph Masciantonio CAMWS Diversity award. My main research interest is understanding the influences of Classical tradition and rhetoric on modern Western imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy. I am also a first-generation college student as well as an individual of Latin American background and a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
Email: aulloase@ttu.edu
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