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.
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 Indexwebsite.
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.
This Fall, Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston joins us as an Assistant Professor specializing in Latin literature of the Roman empire. Coming from Pomona College, Prof. Eccleston received her M.Phil. from Oxford and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, where she wrote a dissertation on Apuleius, now becoming a book entitled “Humanizing Speech: Apuleius and the Ethics of Narration”.
Professors John Bodel and Graham Oliver, the conference organizers, selected twenty-two papers that addressed a wide range of themes: Harbor Cultures, Refugees and Asylum, Contingency and the ancient economy, New Religions, Slaves and Family, and The Reception of Ancient Historians and Ancient History in the New World.
The Department of Classics is pleased to report the recent publication of two works by Professor Stratis Papaioannou. Professor Papaioannou is an Associate professor of Classics and also the Director of the Program of Medieval Studies.