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April 23, 2024
by Kathryn Topper
At the 2024 Association of Ancient Historians meeting, Prof. Deb Kamen was honored with the Randall Howarth Prize for Excellence in Mentoring. This prize recognizes outstanding mentors who model scholarly excellence and integrity, who support their mentees in reaching their potential, and who guide mentees as they become members of a community of ancient historians. Kamen’s award specifically cited her generosity with... Read more
April 17, 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Chris Waldo, who was awarded a prestigious Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for 2024-25 to support his book project Classical Reception in Asian American Literature! He also received a Royalty Research Fund grant for 2024-25 to fund this exciting project. Waldo’s book will be the first scholarly monograph on the topic of classical reception in Asian American literature, laying the groundwork for a burgeoning new subfield of Classics. In it, Waldo... Read more
March 19, 2024
Prof. Sarah Levin-Richardson, who is currently writing a book entitled The Emotional Landscape of Roman Slavery, was featured in the March 2024 issue of the UW Arts & Sciences newsletter, Perspectives. Read more here!
March 6, 2024
by Sarah Levin-Richardson
Building on their experience abroad with the department’s Classics Rome: The Ancient Rome City program, two of our graduating seniors, Meagan White and Amelia Ketzel, will be presenting original research at the upcoming 52nd annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (March 15-16). This conference brings together scholars and teachers of Greco-Roman antiquity from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia,... Read more
February 8, 2024
Congratulations to Melissa Funke (UW Classics PhD '13), whose first book, Phryne: A Life in Fragments (Bloomsbury 2024), was just published! Melissa is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
Here is a description of the book: "How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how... Read more
January 7, 2024
by James J. Clauss
Chiara Sulprizio, BA Classics UW 1999, received her PhD also in Classics at the University of Southern California in 2007, with a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies. After teaching at Loyola Marymount University, Hamilton College and the University of Southern California, she is now Senior Lecturer in the Program in Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University. In 2020 she published Gender and Sexuality in Juvenal’s Rome: Satire 2 and Satire 6 (... Read more
November 27, 2023
As always, UW will be well represented at the 2024 annual conference of the Society for Classical Studies/Archaeological Institute of America, which will be held in Chicago. See below for talks and panels by UW graduate students, faculty, and alumnx! All times are CST.
Friday... Read more
October 10, 2023
by Sarah Levin-Richardson
Lorraine Abagatnan (BA Classics 2020; minor in Anthropology) was recently featured in Pasts Imperfect, an online publication highlighting the most recent trends and scholarship in ancient studies. Abagatnan’s contribution highlighted the intersection of... Read more
September 26, 2023
Classical Studies major Meagan White was featured on the Humanities Academic Services Center website! Read the profile here.
September 23, 2023
As always, I’d like to start by congratulating our 2023 graduates, including our BAs, MAs, and PhDs. I’m also thrilled to announce that our recent PhDs have landed stellar jobs, including as a User Experience Research Scientist at Meta and as Classics professors at the University of Pittsburgh!
One of the biggest developments of this past year was the revival of our long-... Read more