Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

3-D photogrammetry of under-studied Roman villa mosaics for open-access catalog

Network analysis of maritime trade inscriptions linking Delos to Red Sea ports

Comparative study of gendered space in Athenian houses and Pompeian domus

VR reconstruction of the Eleusinian Mysteries processional route

Isotopic assay of amphora stoppers tracing wine provenance in late Republic Rome

Critical essay on classical motifs in modern nationalist architecture

Digital commentary on fragmentary lyric poets with crowd-sourced scholia

Soil micromorphology revealing diet shifts in post-Mycenaean refugee settlements

Policy brief on repatriation ethics for contested Greek bronzes

Pedagogical game simulating Athenian assembly deliberation procedures

Machine-learning script classification distinguishing early Ionic vs Attic hands

Study of climate proxies in Roman Egyptian papyri stable-isotope signatures

Public exhibit plan juxtaposing Black classicist scholarship with canonical editions

Analysis of Latin epic intertexts in Caribbean post-colonial poetry

Deep-mapping Roman road networks using LiDAR and drone orthomosaics

White paper on digital preservation standards for Herculaneum papyri scans

Corpus linguistics project tracking semantic change in Greek political vocabulary

Ethnographic parallels of modern pilgrimage with ancient healing cults at Epidaurus

Conference on decolonizing classical curricula in global south universities

Podcast dramatizing women’s voices in ancient courtroom speeches