Hannah is currently a senior at The Chapin School in New York City, studying both Latin and Ancient Greek. After participating in Living Latin in Rome High School in 2013, she spearheaded the Convivium Latinum symposium series. Hannah is President of Chapin’s Classics Club, and she loves studying Art History and Introductory Italian. Her favorite Roman poet is Horace, and she enjoys learning about Augustan propaganda. You can often find Hannah riding horses on weekends as she is a competitive equestrian. In the fall, Hannah will be attending Princeton University.
Paulena Prager was introduced to the Paideia Institute when she and her brother participated in Living Latin in Rome High School in the summer of 2013. Paulena is currently a senior at The Trinity School in New York City where she enjoys studying Roman Philosophy and, more specifically, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. Her academic interests include Classics, Absurdist Literature, History, and Calculus. Additionally, Paulena is an avid squash player and a competitive sporting clays shooter.
Robert Crystal is a sophomore at the Collegiate School for Boys in New York City. He attended the Paideia Institute’s Living Latin in Rome High School Program in 2013, and has studied Latin for three years under Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell. His favorite Latin authors are Roman love poets Catullus and Propertius, as well as Vergil. Besides Latin study, in school, Robert enjoys English and Philosophy, and his other interests include running, singing, and writing. He is a member of the Collegiate School’s Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track teams, and also writes for Collegiate’s student-run newspaper, The Collegiate Journal. He sings bass in the Collegiate School chorus and a capella group, as well as in a Manhattan Interschool a capella group. He also has studied classical piano for ten years.
Maximillian Prager was introduced to the Paideia Institute in 2013, when he participated in the Living Latin in Rome program with his sister Paulena. Max is a junior at The Trinity School in New York, where the classics program greatly inspired his growth as a Latin student. Max’s favorite Roman poet is Horace, whose works he studied as a sophomore. Max’s interests include Latin, paleontology/zoology, spearfishing, guitar, and Classic Rock, and he is an avid cyclist on the weekends.
Ron Janoff is a Latin scholar and an adjunct professor of Classical Mythology. He has taught at public, private, and charter schools at intermediate, high school, and college levels. At New York University he served as a director for program development. He was a coordinator of the NYU Beat Generation Conferences of 1994 and 1995, working closely with Allen Ginsberg and with the Kerouac/Sampas estate. He received his Ph.D. in English Education from NYU with a specialization in multiculturalism and travel writing. Dr. Janoff lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he publishes a weekly annotated on-line issue of The New York Latin Leaflet of 1900-1906.
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis is the Deputy Executive Officer of M.A. Program in Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is also the Director of the Archaeology of the Classical, Late Antique and Islamic Worlds track in the Liberal Studies Program and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center. She earned degrees in History, Archaeology and Classics at Cornell University where she graduated summa cum laude, and she earned her Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Classical Archaeology at Oxford University. Trained as a garden archaeologist and architectural historian, she has excavated or served as a garden ceramic specialist on excavations in Italy, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. She is editor of two books and is author of over ten articles on ancient Roman gardens and architecture. Currently, she also serves as a member of the governing board and the executive committee of the Archaeological Institute of America.