Dr. Milena Anfosso is an engaging speaker, capable of transmitting her passion and of keeping the attention of her audience alive. Her complete mastery of many modern languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish) gives her the chance to engage effectively with an international public. (...) She earned a Ph.D. summa cum laude at Sorbonne University, Paris, which has one of the most difficult grading systems in France. Half of the students enrolled in a Ph.D. program in France abandon it before graduating and, unfortunately, that is even more true for women. Milena stood firm and grew out of this experience that shaped her and raised her to the rank of recognized specialist in her discipline. 

I have witnessed in Dr. Anfosso's research unmistakable signs of truly outstanding scholarship and I certainly would consider her among the very best of our generation. (...) Not only she is a first-rate scholar of comparative Indo-European Linguistics, but she also demonstrates a clear ability to consistently work to the highest level in such fields as modern Greek dialectology and Sociolinguistics, bringing together the best in traditional classical and philological scholarship with the state-of-the-art in modern Linguistics.

Dr. Anfosso's dissertation is so rich that — unlike the typical Ph.D. dissertation, which is routinely converted into a book — this work provides material for at least two books, and probably several additional research projects as well. The problems treated range across an unusually broad scope of academic disciplines and concerns (historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, epigraphic, metrical, etc.; of interest to ancient historians, classicists, linguists, etc.). I cannot actually think of another scholar, whether junior or senior, who is able to control all of these areas in sufficient depth, and with the appropriate specialized knowledge, to be able to pursue research of this kind.