Overview
Andrew Merritt earned a B.A. in Classics from the University of Virginia in 2013 and in 2015 an M.Phil. in Classics from the University of Cambridge. In 2016 he entered the Ph.D. program with a concentration in Greek and Latin Linguistics. His interests comprise the historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and their relatives, Indo-European morphology and derivational semantics, lexical semantic change, Homeric Philology, and Archaic Greek Poetry. In 2020 the French Republic awarded Andrew a Chateaubriand Fellowship to further his doctoral research on the etymology of κάλλος ‘beauty’. The resultant dissertation, κάλλος and καλός: Morphology, Etymology, and Conceptual Genealogy, serves as an interdisciplinary contribution to conceptual analysis by means of insights derived Greek and Indo-European word-formation and etymology.
Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics Concentration