When the pandemic began to take hold in March, international students were faced with a tough choice: To remain with their friends at Brown, or to return to their home countries before borders were shut. Christopher (PhD, Classics) opted to leave, but has remained just as active within the department as ever.
The Cogut Institute for the Humanities advances “collaborative research and curricular innovation” in humanities and throughout Brown. The Cogut Institute offers a number of fellowships that “support the pursuit of the humanities at Brown University.” These programs “promote active dialogue, public programming, and collaborative teaching and research on the most challenging questions facing humanities scholars today.” This academic year, two members of the Classics Department, and PhD candidate Kelly Nguyen and Prof. Steve Kidd, received Cogut Fellowships.
Typically, at the start of each academic year, the Classics Department hosts a welcome reception at the Brown Faculty Club to celebrate the start of the school year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this Fall we were unable to hold our usual gathering, but that didn’t stop the Classics@Brown community from celebrating the new academic year!
This year, Classics @ Brown held our second annual Button Badge Competition! We asked all undergraduates in Classics courses to create an design that they felt represented Classics at Brown University.
This Fall, Professor Amy Russell joins the Department of Classics at Brown University as Assistant Professor of Classics. Amy Russell is a Roman political and cultural historian, with a particular interest in architecture, urbanism, and space
"The tradition of the Vietnamese reception of classical literature has not yet been examined, and this article is the first to venture into this intersection between Classics and Vietnamese studies."
This afternoon marked the end of the formal teaching period in the Spring 2020 semester, a memorable one. The COVID-19 virus has brought sadness and difficulty for many, and challenges for all of us.
This year, the Classics Department is proud to announce that Erika Valdivieso has received the Outstanding Dissertation Award representing the humanities. Erika's dissertation, “The Virgilian Tradition in Colonial Latin America,” utilizes Latin, Spanish and Portuguese sources to reconstruct the context in which Latin poetry was taught, received, and produced in colonial Latin America.
The Classics Department is pleased to announce that four more concentrators (class of 2020) have been elected to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa!
