Jasmine Akiyama-Kim
E-mail: jakim@humnet.ucla.edu
Education
- M.A. Classics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019. (M.A. Paper: “Convergent Gazes: Indexical Representation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”)
- B.A. Classics, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2015. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. (Undergraduate Thesis: “Arethusa: Representations of the Syracusan Nymph in Colonization Narrative, Consolatio, and Epic”)
Research
- Ovid
- Tacitus
- Latin biography
- Latin historiography
- Imperial representation
Awards & Conference Papers
Awards
- Presidential Service Award, Graduate Student Association, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
- Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
- Graduate Research Mentorship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018-19
- Pascal Prize for Excellence in Latin, University of Oregon, 2015
- Lowenstam Award for Best Essay on Classical Antiquity, University of Oregon, 2015
- APA Outstanding Student Award, 2014
- Centurion Award, University of Oregon, 2012
Conference Papers
- “Odysseus’s Two Bodies: Recognition as Construction in Odyssey 19.” SCS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (virtual conference due to Covid-19). January 8, 2022.
- “Ring Composition and Narrative Consequence in the Story of Rhampsinitus and the Thief (Hdt. 2.121).” SCS Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (virtual conference due to Covid-19). January 10, 2021.
- “Seeing Double: The Temporality of Theseus’s Shield in Statius’s Thebaid.” SCS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 4, 2020.
- “The Magic of Representation in Nero’s Tradition.” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Lincoln, NE. April 6, 2019.
- “Arethusa: Three Perspectives on the Syracusan Fountain.” Northwest Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World, Salem, OR. April 25, 2015.