Student theses

Below are the names of recent master's students who have gone on to do a PhD program (including institution and discipline)

Evan King: "Bonum non est in Deo: On the Indistinction of the One and the Exclusion of the Good in Meister Eckhart." University of Cambridge (Divinity)

Emma Curran: "Golden Age Imagery and the Artistic Philosophy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses." Princeton University (Classics)

Will Cochran: "The Doctrine of Due Measure in Plato’s Statesman." Northwestern University (Philosophy)

Chris Gibson: "Logos in Plato’s Theaetetus and Sophist." University of Ottawa (Philosophy)

Luke Togni: "The Unity of Substance in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Λ." Marquette University (Theology)

Emily Parker: "Swiftly Runs the Word: Philo’s Doctrine of Mediation in De Vita Mosis." Trinity College, Dublin (Near & Middle Eastern Studies)

Megan Falconer: "Charisma and Versatility: Alcibiades's Source of Power." University of Alberta (Classics)

Tim Riggs: "Eros as Cosmic and Hierarchical Principle: Christ and the Socratic Hierarch in the Thought of Dionysius the Areopagite." University of Jyväskylä (Department of History and Ethnology)

Simon Fortier: "The Proclan Theodicy." Université Laval, (Philosophy)

Carolyn MacDonald: "Poetic Infidelities in Catullus’ Carmina docta." Stanford University (Classics)

Benjamin Lee: "The Discovery of Mens and the Unity of Self-Cognition in St. Augustine's De Trinitate X." Dalhousie University (Classics)

Kristen Slonsky: "The Manipulation of Fear in Julius Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum." University of Buffalo (Classics)

Andra Striowski: "Plato and Aristotle on Philia." University of Ottawa (Philosophy)

Bethie Baxter: "Sappho and Socrates and the Nature of Eros." Boston University (Classics)

Martin Sastri: "The Spiritual Senses in St. Augustine and Their Neoplatonic  Foundations." University of Notre Dame (Medieval Institute)

Rebecca Coughlin: "Oeoyptia and Oeopia: Divine Activity in Dionysius the Areopagite." McGill University (Religious Studies)

Colin Webster: "On Tragic and Socratic Irony." Columbia University (Classics)

James Bryson: "The Question of the Unity of the Intellect for Albertus Magnus, Siger of Brabant, and Thomas Aquinas." University of Cambridge; Post-doctoral fellowship at McGill University

Matthew Wood: "The first actuality: Interpretations of the De Anima in Enneads IV.7 and V.3: Plotinus, Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias." University of Ottawa (Philosophy)

Michael Sampson: "Contrast in Sophokles’ Trachiniai." University of Michigan (Classics). Teaching position at the University of Manitoba.

Conor Barry: "The Aporiai of the Parmenides: A Prelude to the Philosophical Dialectic." University of Ottawa (Philosophy)

Emily Varto: "The Funeral Legislation of Solon and the Pursuit of Eunomia." University of British Columbia (Classics). Teaching position at Dalhousie University.

Adam Labecki: "The One and the Many." University of Kentucky (Philosophy)

David Butorac: "The Neoplatonic Prehistory of Augustine’s Doctrine on the Trinity." University of Leuven (Philosophy). Teaching position at Fatih University.

Eli Diamond: "Plato's Sophist and Its Neoplatonic Interpretation." Northwestern University (Philosophy). Teaching position at Dalhousie University.

Matthew Robinson: "Augustine’s Treatment of Time in Context: A Commentary on Book 11 of St. Augustine’s Confessions." Boston College (Philosophy), Teaching position at St. Thomas University.

Michael Fournier: "Language and Vision in the Proslogion of Saint Anselm." Boston College (Philosophy), Teaching position at Dalhousie University.

Nicholas Thorne: "Plato and Thucydides: Two Accounts of a Revolution." University of Pittsburgh (Classics)

Stephen Blackwood: "The Role of Prayer in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy." Emory University (Religion)

Hans Feichtinger: "'Mediatorem ergo quaerunt' (S.Dolb. 26.37): A Comparative Study of Iamblichus and Augustine on the Human Need for Mediation." Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum

James Chlup: "Nulla unquam res publica maior: The Recreation of the Early Roman Republic in Ab Urbe Condita II-V." Durham University (Classics). Teaching position at the University of Manitoba.

Catherine Tracy (formerly Feeley): "Poeta Levis? Ovid’s Elegiac Nequitia." University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Teaching position at Bishop’s University.

Corey Owen: "The Landscape of Salvation in Plotinus, Origen, and St. Gregory of Nyssa." Dalhousie University (English). Teaching position at the University of Saskatchewan.

Lawrence-Bruce Robertson: "A commentary on book Alpha Elatton of Aristotle’s Metaphysics." Cornell University (Philosophy). Teaching position at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus.

Paige Hochschild (formerly Davidson): "Et ex qua parte stet victoria nescio: A Commentary on Book X of Augustine’s Confessions." University of Durham (Theology). Teaching position at Mount St. Mary’s University.

Phillip Corkum: "Et mirum si non ipsius animi: On Augustine, Confessions, Book XI." University of California, Los Angeles. Teaching position at the University of Alberta.

Larry Michael Harrington: "Human Mediation in Eriugena’s Periphyseon." Boston College (Philosophy). Teaching position at Duquesne University.

Kyle Fraser: "Chorismos, Being and the Unity of the Forms in the Sophist." University of Cambridge. Teaching position at the University of King’s College.

Neil Robertson: "A Commentary on Plato’s Symposium, University of Cambridge, Teaching position at the University of King’s College.

Peter O’Brien: "Lampra Symbaine: The Unity of Sophocles’ Trachiniae." Boston University (Classics). Teaching position at Dalhousie University.

Laurelle LeVert: "Roman Laws on Obnuntiatio: Lex Clodia and Lex Aelia Fufia." Associate vice-president at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John).

Bruce Gordon: "Deus est Caritas: Four Latin Sermons of Meister Eckhart: Texts, Translations, and Commentary." University of St. Andrews. Teaching position at Yale University.

Barry Craig: "The Connection between Boethius’ Contra Eutychen et Nestorium and St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae III, QQ. 1-26." University of Wales. Teaching position at St. Thomas University.

David Creese: "The Origin of the Greek Tortoise-Shell Lyre." University of Birmingham. Teaching position at Newcastle University.

Lawrin Armstrong: "Virgil the Platonist: An Examination of Some Fourth- and Fifth-century commentators on Virgil’s Aeneid." University of Toronto (Medieval Studies). Teaching position at the University of Toronto.

Gary Thorne: "The Structure and Argument of the Philonic Commentary." Durham University (Theology and Religion)

Walter Hannam: "Non intenta in eloquentia sapientia, sed a sapientia non recedente eloquentia: Augustine’s De doctrina christiana - Structure and Philosophical Method." Boston College (Theology). Teaching position at the University of Emmanuel College.

Bernard Wills: "Plato’s Gorgias: A Reading in Response to Contemporary Approaches to the Platonic Dialogues." McMaster University. Teaching position at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus.

Philip Lee: "The Shield of Achilles: A Vision of the Homeric World." Teaching position at St. Thomas University.

Carol King: "Public Decrees in Early Hellenistic Samos and Priene: A Constitutional History. Baylor University (Classics). Teaching position at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus.

Seamus O’Neill

PhD thesis: "Towards a Restoration of Plato’s Doctrine of Mediation: Platonizing Augustine’s Criticism of ‘the Platonists.’" Teaching position at Memorial University (Philosophy).

Anitra Laycock

• MA thesis: "Metaphysics Book Gamma: Aristotle and the Logic of Substance."
• PhD thesis: "The Essential Polis: Bridging the Tragic Divide."

Leona MacLeod

PhD thesis: "Dolos and Dikê in Sophokles’ Elektra." Teaching position at Dalhousie University.

Vernon Provencal

• MA thesis: "The Unity of the Protagoras."
• PhD thesis: "Republic V: The Argument of the Three Waves." Teaching position at Acadia University (Classics).

Donald Hambrick

PhD thesis: "Aristotle Transfigured: Dante and the Structure of the Inferno and the Purgatorio."

Michael Carreker

• MA thesis: Motus in deo: Motionless Motion and its Relation to the Doctrine of the Trinity of St. Thomas Aquinas."
• PhD thesis: "A Commentary on Books Five, Six and Seven of the De Trinitate of Saint Augustine of Hippo."

Kevin Corrigan

• MA Thesis: "Prolegomena to a Study of Plotinus’s Critique of Aristotle."
  
• PhD Thesis: "Plotinus’s Implicit Critique of Aristotle." Teaching position at Emory University.

James Lowry

PhD thesis: "The Logical Principles of Proclus' Stoicheiôsis Theologikê as Systematic Ground of the Cosmos." Teaching position at College Universitaire Dominicain.

Angus Johnston

• MA thesis: "A Commentary on the Meno."
• PhD thesis: "A Commentary on the First Two Books of Aristotle’s Physics." Teaching position at the University of King’s College.

Geraldine Thomas

PhD thesis: "The Uses and Transformation of Classical Mythology from the Time of Roman Principate to the Early Italian Humanists." Teaching position at Saint Mary’s University.

Colin Starnes

PhD thesis: "Ad visionem veritatis: Commentary on Saint Augustine’s Confessions, I, vi, 7-VII, xvi, 22." Teaching position at Dalhousie University and University of King’s College.

Paul Epstein

PhD thesis: "A Commentary on the Birds of Aristophanes." Teaching position at Oklahoma State University.

Sam Sutherland: "Beauty, Proportion, and Truth: The Good in the Philebus." Law School (Osgood Hall, York University)

Christopher McKelvie: "The Cosmic Christian Vision of Prudentius’ Liber Cathemerinon, and the Inculturation of Augustan Vatic Poetry." Seminarian at Dominican College (Ottawa)

Dan Wilband: "Self-knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades." Law school at McGill University.

Reuben Penner: "The Rhetoric of God in History: Eusebius of Caesarea’s Political Theology in His Panegyric to Constantine." Accounts Payable Clerk at Stewart McKelvey.

Michelle Wilband: "Ingenium veterum mirabile laudet: Eriugena’s Reception of the Aristotelian Categories and Their Role in the Periphyseon." Teacher of Humanities, Dawson College CEGEP (Montreal)

Dave Puxley: "Soul as Self and Mediator from Plotinus to Eriugena." Anglican priest.

Ben Frenken: "Homeric Consistency: Divine Justice and Character Development." Dalhousie Law School.

James Fleming: "Julian: The Apostle of Paganism." Teaching position in the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.

Patrick Graham: "Plato’s Ion." War correspondent, journalist, filmmaker.

Peter Bryson: "A Commentary on Sophocles’ Electra." Judge, Nova Scotia Supreme Court of Appeal.

Ben Manson: "Teleology and Awareness in Aristotle’s Ethical Thought." University of Oxford (Philosophy)

Brad Longard: "Putting the Empire in Its Place: Ovid on the Goldenness of Rome."

Martin Curran: "The immaterial theurgy of Boethius."

Peter Bullerwell: "The Distinction of Indistinction and Meister Eckhart’s Way of Life."

Naomi Blackwood: "The Activity of the Unrecognizable in Book XIII of Homer’s Odyssey."