News Archive from December, 2020

Inaugural SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize Awarded to Kelly Nguyen

Congratulations Kelly Nguyen for winning the inaugural SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize!

Out of 31 submissions, the SCS committee unanimously awarded Kelly for her paper “What's in a Natio: Negotiating Ethnic Identity in the Roman Empire”, noting its "thoughtful examination of the individual acts of self-fashioning behind funerary epitaphs specifying a natio."

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Announcing the 2021 David Pingree Prize

The Brown Department of Classics is pleased to announce the 2021 David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History.

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.

"The Art of Mythical History...", a "Trends in Classics" Article by Avi Kapach

On November 26th, Classics PhD candidate, Avi Kapach published an article in Trends in Classics, a schlolarly journal produced by De Gruyter Publishing.  Avi's article, entitled "The Art of Mythical History and the Temporality of the Athenian 'Epitaphioi Logoi'" explores how myth and history was used in the Athenian epitaphioi logoi (public funeral speeches).