Annie K. Lamar
Director, LOREL Lab
Annie Lamar, Assistant Professor of Computational Classics, received her PhD from Stanford in 2024 and her MA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education in 2023. Her research focuses on developing new methods for the training and evaluation of models for scarce, endangered, and ancient languages. Specialities include archaic Greek and low-resource machine learning.
Rick Castle
PhD Researcher, LOREL Lab
Rick Castle is a PhD candidate in Classics at UC Santa Barbara, focusing on the intersection between modern forms of media and the ancient past, as well as the impact of such media on a modern audience’s understanding of antiquity. He primarily examines video game reception of Greek mythology, with a view to social justice and representation of marginalized identities. His dissertation focuses on Supergiant’s Hades (2018), critically acclaimed for its adaptation of ancient myth for a modern audience, specifically to queer and POC communities.
Carissa Chappell
PhD Researcher, LOREL Lab
Carissa Chappell is a PhD student in Classics at UC Santa Barbara with an emphasis in literature and theory. They study ancient Greek fiction through the lenses of queer theory, trans theory, and disability studies, focusing on absence, temporality, and non-normative embodiment. Their dissertation uses critical theory to challenge tacit assumptions in ancient fiction scholarship and reframe the ancient Greek novels as sites of identity negotiation under the Roman Empire.
Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki
PhD Researcher, LOREL Lab
Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki (she/they) is a Ph.D. candidate in Classics and an Argyropoulos Fellow of Hellenic Studies at UC Santa Barbara, specializing in ancient theater. Their dissertation investigates migration and collective agency among marginalized hero(in)es in ancient Greek drama, connecting these ancient narratives with contemporary sociopolitical realities through interdisciplinary approaches. An engaged educator and activist scholar, they collaborate on digital humanities and social justice projects focused on resilience and belonging.
Allene Seet
PhD Researcher, LOREL Lab
Allene Seet is a PhD candidate in Ancient History at the University of Santa Barbara, where she specializes in Mediterranean archaeology, identity formation, and memory studies. Her dissertation examines immigrant epitaphs from Athens, Demetrias, and Euboea during the Late Classical-Early Hellenistic period (c. 400-200 BCE). She has participated in the Gabii Project and Athenian Agora Excavations.