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Graduate Alum, Lauren Ginsberg, Wins CAMWS First Book Award

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 Eccleston Co-Hosting Conference: Racing the Classics

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. 

Graduate Student Michiel Van Veldhuizen Takes Part in Research Matters 2017

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

Classics Holds its 70th Latin Carol Celebration

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

Professor Papaioannou’s Book Featured as “Translation of the Month”

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.

Ancient History Graduate Student Awarded Provost Proctorship in Academic Administration

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.

Classics Successfully Kicks Off the New Academic Year

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.

The Department of Classics Welcomes Professor Eccleston

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”. 

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Brown Hosts 2017's Major Ancient History Conference in North America

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.

Two 2017 Book Publications from Professor Stratis Papaioannou

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. 

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