Professional Summary
Savannah is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Philology program. She graduated summa cum laude from Trinity University with a B.A. in Classical Languages in 2023 and completed an undergraduate honors thesis on depictions of motherhood in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti. She is also an alumna of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (Centro). Savannah graduated from the University of Kansas in 2025 with an M.A. in Classics. While at the University of Kansas, she presented at the annual conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2024 and 2025. Her master's thesis, titled "Women Skilled in Speaking: Gender, Identity, and Rhetoric in Senecan Tragedy," examined the ways in which Seneca's female characters utilize social identities, particularly that of the mother, as a part of their rhetorical strategy. Savannah's research interests include Latin poetry, women in antiquity, Roman and Greek tragedy, and motherhood.