Recent News
Congratulations to the students of the Classics community at the University of Washington for their accomplishments over the past academic year, 2023–2024!
DEGREES CONFERRED AND EXPECTED
Ph.D. in Classics
Joseph BringmanDissertation: "The Roman Revolutionaries: The Evolution of Revolution in Ancient Rome"
Mary HarringtonDissertation: "Res Novae Feminarum: The Dissonant Roles of Roman Women in the Triumviral Period"
Diana… Read more
Dr. Cathy Callaway (BA University of Wisconsin 1978, MA University of Missouri 1982, PhD University of Washington, The Oath in Epic Poetry, 1990) recently retired from her position as Museum Educator at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, which she held from 2006-2022; she had been editor of the Museum’s journal Muse since 2018. In addition to her recent publications “Reverse Ekphrasis: The Visual Poetics of Nancy Morejón’s… Read more
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ray Lahiri will be joining the Department of Classics in fall 2024 as an Assistant Professor of Roman History. Dr. Lahiri earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, and his PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature from Yale University. In his dissertation, “Violence and the Political in Greek and Latin Historical Narrative,” he examined how ancient historians (including Herodotus… Read more
Classics students are set to present inspiring and intriguing original research projects in several sessions at UW's Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday May 17. The Symposium brings more than twelve hundred undergraduate students from UW and other institutions together to share their work in an exciting day of poster sessions and talks in Mary Gates Hall and other campus locations. The Classics students' projects… Read more
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 her time and… Read more
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,… Read more
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!
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… Read more
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… Read more
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