Sarah Scullin earned a B.A. (Classics and Latin, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. She entered the Penn Ph.D. program in 2006. Sarah's main interests are Greco-Roman Medicine and Philosophy, with particular interest in Greek conceptions and perceptions of pleasure, pain and emotion. She has presented her research in papers on "The Curative Function of Pain in Childbirth and Lamentation" (Fourth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of Classics, Harvard University, 2008) and "The Roles of Eilithuia and Delos in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo" (140th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, 2009).