Honors and Awards

Lauryn Hanley, Laura Harris
Graduate students Lauryn Hanley and Laura Harris win prestigious fellowships
September 8, 2025
Dance of the Muses - painting by Giulio Romano
Congratulations to the 2025 Classics Graduates and Student Awardees!
June 17, 2025
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From Classics to Cures
June 12, 2025
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Mark Nugent (PhD '10) Receives SCS Excellence in Teaching Award!
December 13, 2024
Deb Kamen
Chair's Letter, Autumn 2024
August 31, 2024
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Congratulations to the 2024 Classics Graduates and Student Awardees!
June 18, 2024
Prof. Kamen accepting the mentoring award
Prof. Kamen Honored with Mentorship Award from the Association of Ancient Historians
April 23, 2024
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Prof. Waldo Receives Loeb Fellowship for Classical Reception in Asian American Literature
April 17, 2024
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Chair's Letter, Autumn 2023
September 23, 2023
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Congratulations to the 2023 Classics Graduates and Student Awardees!
June 13, 2023
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Chair’s Letter, Autumn 2022
September 8, 2022
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Classics major Melissa Barker wins Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship 
September 2, 2022
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Alumnx Spotlight: Jackie Murray, UW Classics PhD, 2005
August 18, 2022
Jonathan Clark and Lauryn Hanley awarded 2022-23 Joff Hanauer for Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowships
August 16, 2022
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Congratulations to the 2022 Classics Graduates and Student Awardees!
June 22, 2022
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Classics grads win WCC and LCC awards!
January 6, 2022
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Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld receives Excellence in Teaching Award!
June 11, 2021
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Congratulations to the 2021 Classics Graduates and Student Awardees!
June 9, 2021
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3 Classics PhD students receive Simpson Center Fellowships
April 28, 2021
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Grace Funsten (PhCand) and Adriana Vazquez (PhD '17) win Rome Prize
April 26, 2021
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Dillon Gisch (B.A. 2013) Wins Rome Prize!
September 16, 2020
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A Celebration of Classics: 2020 Graduates and Student Awardees
June 11, 2020
Image of Sheila Panyam, Lederman Scholarship Recipient
An Open Letter from the AY19-20 Lederman Endowed Scholarship Recipient
December 19, 2019
George O'Connor graphic novel frames: Persephone seated at a banquet in the Underworld
Fulbright student Sophie Emilia Seidler honored by University of Vienna
October 18, 2019
Grecia Leal Pardo
Grecia Leal Pardo named Dean's Medalist
June 16, 2019
Brad Cook
Brad Cook (PhD '96) named UMiss Humanities Council Teacher of the Year!
January 14, 2019
Brad Cook, PhD '96, wins an NEH Fellowship to study Inscriptions
February 1, 2018
Kaitlyn Boulding portrait, photo credit Winnipeg Free Press
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Boulding on Emerging Artist Award
April 5, 2017
Sarah Levin-Richardson and Deborah Kamen
Professors Kamen and Levin-Richardson win national research award
January 19, 2017
Classical Seminar in Rome Students 2016
Celebration of Student Achievements and Awards 
July 1, 2016
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Professor Catherine Connors wins Distinguished Teaching Award!
April 4, 2016
Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (PhD '14) wins Oxford Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama's Ars Longa Prize for 2014
March 25, 2015
Adriana Vazquez wins LCC Graduate Student Paper Award!
January 14, 2015
Brad Cook (PhD '96) wins Rhetorica prize for best essay
June 23, 2014
Kathleen Noll (BA in History and Latin '14) named 2014 Dean's Medalist in Social Sciences
June 19, 2014
Professor Sarah Levin-Richardson wins Rome Prize
May 9, 2014
Brandi Boseovski (BA '12) receives a Zeph Stewart Latin Teacher Training Award
April 30, 2014
Christina Vester (PhD '04) wins 2014 Distinguished Teaching Award at University of Waterloo
March 27, 2014
UW Classics wins the Award in Professional Equity from the Women's Classical Caucus
January 27, 2014
Two Classics majors awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarships
March 20, 2013
Professor Stephen Hinds named UW faculty Katz Distinguished Lecturer for  2013-2014
March 13, 2013
Roosevelt HS Latin teacher Nora MacDonald (BA '71, MA '86) wins prestigious national award
January 26, 2013
Classics major David Jekel receives freshman President's Medal
January 9, 2013
Stephen Hinds awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
December 18, 2012
UW Honors Program named 'Best in the West'
June 18, 2012
Edward Nolan named Dean's Medalist
May 20, 2012