Michael Knierim

Thomas Day Seymour Fellowship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Topic: The Ritual Healing of Psychological Trauma in Flavian Epics and their Greek Past

Michael Knierim is writing a dissertation on the ritual healing of psychological trauma in Flavian epic poetry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  At the ASCSA he is pursuing the archaeology and material culture of purificatory and commemorative rituals with special interests in Roman Greece and Late Antiquity.