 Rebecca came to the University of Michigan PhD program in classical studies from Bowdoin College with a double degree in classical studies and music. This dissertation project certainly was the perfect fit between the scholar and the topic and I think that's what's making for a great dissertation and this perfect fit between topic and scholar explains why she is here today. I came to the University of Michigan because it is one of the top five programs in classics in the country and has a very very long tradition of excellence in my field and also because of the paparology collection here which is a very unique resource that is one of the two largest in the entire continental United States. I think the thing that was most surprising to me was actually how open the faculty here were to the fact that I am interested in multidisciplinary research. This is something that is relatively new to classics, new to the kind of cross-disciplinary work which I did in my dissertation. The star of my dissertation is in fact the papyrus itself, Pemish Inventory 2958. No matter how good a scholar or writer you are, you have to have something to write about and that I think is the big thing that I want people to take away from my work is that it is possible to do new stuff with really old stuff. The culture of the Michigan classics program is extremely supportive and welcoming to scholars whatever it is we work on. It is a very large program as classics programs go which is nice because it means that there are experts in a wide variety of sub-fields within the department and at hand. Receiving the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award is a very big honor