Assistant Instructor, LLiR
Charley McNamara is a fourth-year doctoral student in Classics at Columbia University, and he holds an A.B. in Classics from Harvard University (2007). He also studied under Reginald Foster in 2006. After his undergraduate years, Charley taught high school English through Teach for America in rural Arkansas, where he also taught Latin classes to community members of the Arkansas Delta.
Bryan Whitchurch is a Ph.D. student in Classics at Fordham University and holds a B.A. from Utah State University in History and an M.A.T. in Latin and Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before enrolling at Fordham, he taught Latin for six years in Washington D.C., Boston and most recently in New York City at the Brooklyn Latin School. Bryan is also an experienced Italian speaker (since 1998) and Latin speaker (since 2006). As a founding instructor of the Living Latin in Rome High School program, he looks forward to returning once again for an exhilarating teaching experience with talented students and faculty from across the US and beyond.
Alex is a PhD student in Classics at Princeton University. A native of Houston, Texas, he got his BA in Classics from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is interested in Greek literature of all periods, but especially its flowering in the later Roman Empire, both “pagan” and Christian. His dissertation is on a greek philosopher poet bishop from Libya, Synesius of Cyrene (ca. 370-414 AD). Alex has been teaching at LGiG since its inception and is an active participant and organizer of the Ancient Greek table at Princeton.
Christopher has an A.B. in Classics at Princeton University, where he wrote a thesis on the hymns of Synesius of Cyrene, a bishop from North Africa. In addition to his literary interests, he loves archaeological sites and has participated in excavations at Stryme, in northern Greece. He is an alumnus of the Paideia Institute's first Living Latin in Rome program in 2011. He also participated in Living Latin in New York City 2013, and taught for Living Latin and Greek at Germantown Friends School. He is currently a Rome Fellow for 2014-2015, as well as an assistant instructor for Living Latin in Rome (High School).
Solomon Cohen grew up in Paris and New York and is currently student at the Lawrenceville School. After participating in the Living Latin in Rome's innaugural high school program in 2012, Solomon helped organize the visit of papal Latinist Reginald Foster to the New York area in 2012. Solomon speaks French, German, and Italian and enjoys Roman history, especially Livy.
Amy has a A.B. in Classics from Princeton University, with a particular interest in classical political and ethical philosophy. Her senior thesis investigated Plato's views and practice of rhetoric among his corpus, specifically in the Gorgias, the Phaedrus, the Laws, and ultimately in the Republic. She is an alumna of Living Latin in Rome, 2011. In the summer of 2014, she administrated and taught Paideia's program Aequora, in partnership with Still Waters in a Storm (Bushwick, NYC). Amy is a current Rome Fellow for the year 2014-2015, as well as an assistant instructor for Living Latin in Rome (High School). Next year, she will pursue an M.St. in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford.