Peter Knuffke holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College, and a licentiate and doctorate in Christian and Classical Letters from the Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. In the course of his studies, he spent two years in Greece doing research in Eastern Christian theology. In addition to Latin and Greek, he is very interested in the thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and the tradition of thought to which they belong.
Ilias Kolokouris is a Ph.D. student in Classics at the University of Athens. He holds a ptychion in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, and a Master's Degree in teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language. His thesis was on the tragic elements found in Aristophanes’ Acharnians. Ilias has taught for the University of Missouri Creative Writing Seminars on Serifos, for the Modern Greek Language Centre of the University of Athens and for Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece program. He is currently interested in the reception of ancient Greek literature within modern Greek poetry.
Jonathan Meyer holds a B.A. from Calvin College and an M.A. from Yale University. He also participated in the active Latin program at the University of Kentucky, where he earned an additional M.A. His interests in the ancient world and the classical tradition extend broadly, but he is primarily focused on Latin literature of the Renaissance and early modern period. He spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, studying the Latin travel diaries of Cyriac of Ancona. He also worked on neo-Latin novels written in the Habsburg empire as a fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck, Austria. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Classics at Johns Hopkins University.
Emily is a Ph.D. student in history at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the educational institutions and intellectual networks of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain, and the political, ethical, and emotional commitments that informed their participants' formation of interpersonal relationships of various kinds--which involves reading a surprising amount of Greek! She previously attended Princeton and Oxford Universities, and is a 2012 alumna of LGiG.
Jasmine is from Bangkok, Thailand. She is interested in how Christian folks in the early modern period studied classical and Jewish texts. After Princeton, she will be going to medical school at Mt Sinai through their Humanities and Medicine program.
Andrew Frazier is a senior in the Classics department at Princeton University, where his research focuses on literature of Late Republican Rome and Classical Greece. An alumnus of the 2014 LGiG program, Andrew hopes to continue serving the Paideia Institute after graduation. At Princeton, Andrew rows on the varsity Lightweight Crew, leads backpacking trips for freshmen, and serves as president of his eating club, Cloister Inn. He also likes playing guitar and jazz trumpet, cycling, and swing dancing.