The Brown Classics community is happy to share the news that Prof. Amy Russell has won a fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. The Loeb Fellowships support research in the broad areas of archaeology and of Greek and Latin Studies, and Amy's award will allow her to take the full academic year 2024-2025 on sabbatic leave. We offer Amy our heartiest congratulations on this singular honor. 

Please join the Department of Classics in congratulating Prof. Candace Rice, who has won the 2023-2024 Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring. The award recognizes faculty members who have made significant contributions as advisers or mentors to our graduate students. Needless to say, there were many nominations, but Candace's dedication, hard-work, and care, easily allowed her candidacy to rise to the top. All in our community send hearty congratulations to Candace for this much-deserved award. 

This College-wide award recognizes faculty members who have shown exceptional dedication, imagination, and commitment in their mentoring of undergraduates. The committee making the award was especially impressed with Dave's support of countless Brown students through advising, in the classroom, and beyond it. This is richly deserved. Our community congratulates Dave for this singular honor.

At the most recent meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Itamar Levin, a fifth-year student in our graduate program, delivered a paper, "'Bring Him Home': Iliad 7.334–5 and the Commemoration of the War Dead in Archaic Greece," for which Itamar has won CAMWS' Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper. Congratulations, Itamar! 

Prof. Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) have been awarded a one
million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of the
Racing the Classics Fellowship Program. In 2017, Professor Eccleston and Professor Padilla
Peralta founded Racing the Classics as an international conference series dedicated to
challenging received assumptions about knowledge production and race in the field of Classics.
The Fellowship Program is based on a cohort model and will combine a summer seminar with a

Congratulations to the graduate students presenting their work at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies.

Maggie Danaher, “Knemon's Fall: Tragic Disability in Menander's Dyskolos”

Christopher Jotischky, "Teaching Latin in Independent Greece: A Metric of Europeanness?"

Clare Kearns, "The Animal as Index of Difference in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe"

Itamar Levin, "The Symbolism of Absence: Public Cenotaphs and Civic Ideology in Archaic Greek Colonies"

The Department of Classics held The Annual Lafayette Sabine Foster Prize in Ancient Greek, and the President Francis Wayland Prize Exams in Latin and Ancient Greek in April. It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of this year's prize exams, as well as those who have been awarded honors thesis and service prizes (The James Aldrich Pirce Prize, The Minnie Helen Hicks Prize, The Lucius Lyon Thesis Prize and The Workman-Driscoll Premium, respectively). Congratulations to the Spring 2023 winners! 

This year, Classics @ Brown held our fifth annual Button Badge Competition!  We asked undergraduate students to create a design that they felt represented Classics at Brown University.  Each year, the chosen image will be printed on button badges as a fun way to show appreciation for the department and identify their fellow classmates. Wangdrak Dorji (class of 2024) created this year’s winning design. Wangdrak received a $250 gift card to the Brown University Bookstore. 

Below is the design inspiration Wangdrak submitted with his image:

Instituted by Isabelle Pingree and Brown University in 2011 to honor the distinguished career of her late husband Professor David E. Pingree, University Professor and Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics at Brown University until his death in 2005. This prize will be awarded to the Brown undergraduate from any concentration who presents the best paper in a given year dealing with the rigorous intellectual traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds and their textual sources (including mainly, but not only, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Akkadian).

Brown University invites applications for an International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in early modern studies with a focus on “Humanities in the Colonial World c. 1500-1750’.  The position will be held at the Center for the Study of the Early Modern world (EMW) in the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University, and at the Brown Department of Classics, for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2023.  The Fellow will teach two courses each year in Classics which will be cross-listed as Cogut/EMW courses.