Hannah arrived in Cambridge in 2004 to read Classics at St John's College and in 2008 received her MPhil, with a thesis focusing on the Greek concept of religious pollution (miasma). Her doctoral thesis argues for and explores the ubiquitous association of law and religion in Archaic and Classical Greece. The thesis studies, among other things, literary and philosophical engagements with the relationship between law and religion and with the early lawgivers, the construction of authority in inscribed laws, the distinct treatment of particularly religious crimes and the employment in the legal sphere of religious mechanisms such as oaths and curses and of ritualised forms of punishment. More broadly her academic interests cover all aspects of ancient Greek religion and, in particular, the ways in which religious concerns relate to and inform other aspects of Greek life and thought. Her main focus while in Christ's will be a study of cult foundation in the Greek world, from the Archaic through to the Roman period.