The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a one-year visiting appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July, 2018. This is a non-tenure-track position, and is renewable for one year only. 

Congratulations to Classics graduate student, Erika Valdivieso, on winning the J.M. Stuart Fellowship Award from the John Carter Brown Library!  According to the JCB website:...

The Society for Classical Studies held their 2018 Annual Meeting in Boston, January 4-7.  Classics Professor, Johanna Hanink, delievered a paper at the conference as part of the SCS series, "Rhetoric: Then and Now." Professor Hanink spoke on "'truthiness,' both in the current presidential administration as well as in the Ancient Greek tradition."

You can see the video of the full presentation below and on the SCS YouTube Channel. 

Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (Brown Classics PhD, 2011), has received one of the 2018 Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) First Book Awards! CAMWS is an organization for educators, students, and lovers of classical antiquity, promoting appreciation of the classics through its members’ teaching, research, and public outreach.  The First Book Award is awarded to select CAMWS members for exceptional and thought-provoking first scholarly publications. 

Classics Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston is currently organizing a conference to take place at Princeton University in March. 

Co-organized by Professor Dan-el Padilla of Princeton, Racing the Classics is a working conference dedicated to using and developing critical theories of race and ethnicity in all aspects of the field .   

The event seeks to pave new paths forward for what counts as knowledge in Classics and how we work together to produce that knowledge. 

Classics graduate student Michiel Van Veldhuizen presented his talk "From Helice to Houston: The Semiotics of Disaster."

This longstanding tradition is a community favorite, as it bring people from all over the region!

His recent publication, Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes, is featured as Translation of the Month on the Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index website.

The Proctorship, created through the Office of the Provost's Departmental Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and hosted by the Office of the Provost, offers doctoral students hands-on experience in higher education administration.

On Wednesday, September 6th, we gathered as a department to celebrate the start of a new academic year with new and returning faculty, graduate students, and staff members.