Honors and Awards

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Mark Nugent (PhD '10) Receives SCS Excellence in Teaching Award!
(December 13, 2024)
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Chair's Letter, Autumn 2024
(August 31, 2024)
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Congratulations to the 2024 Classics Graduates and Student Awardees!
(June 18, 2024)
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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)
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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)
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Fulbright student Sophie Emilia Seidler honored by University of Vienna
(October 18, 2019)
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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)
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Brad Cook, PhD '96, wins an NEH Fellowship to study Inscriptions
(February 1, 2018)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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UW Honors Program named 'Best in the West'
(June 18, 2012)
Edward Nolan named Dean's Medalist
(May 20, 2012)