Lecturer, Undergraduate Coordinator Mariah Smith is a lecturer in the Department of Classics at UGA. She earner her BA in Classics at Willamette University, her MA at the University of Kansas, and her PhD at Indiana University. She comes to UGA from the University of New Hampshire where she held the Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project, housed in the Classics program of the Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian. Previously she was a lecturer in Classics at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on uncovering the lived experiences of Romans during the high empire, with special attention to the contemporaneous but differing attitudes of Pliny the Younger and Martial. Education Education: Indiana University, PhD in Classics, Minor in Ancient Studies, June 2016Dissertation: Dimensions of Space and Time in the Literary Worlds of Pliny and Martial University of Kansas, MA in Classics, 2009MA thesis: To Seek the Boundaries of the Roman Lares: Interaction and Evolution Willamette University, BA in Classics (Phi Beta Kappa), 2006 Courses Taught Courses Taught: CLAS 1000 CLAS 1010H LATN 2001 Awards, Honors and Recognitions Of note: Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowships (2015-2016) Indiana University Department of Classical Studies Fellowship (2009-2010)