Recent News
by James J. Clauss
Joel Kalvesmaki, after graduating from UW with a major in Classics in 1999, went to Washington, DC and received his MA and PhD at Catholic University of America in 2006. Thereafter he served as editor of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks until he left in 2019 to pursue a second career as a programmer with the Government Publishing Office. He is currently editor for the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, the series editor for … Read more
Mark Nugent (UW Classics PhD '10), Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, is the recipient of a 2024 Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level from the Society for Classical Studies. Congratulations, Mark! Read a description of his teaching excellence.
The Department of Classics is delighted to announce the establishment of the Lawrence Bliquez Endowed Student Support Fund for Classics, a gift of Laura Matz and Trevor Peterson. This fund is designed to provide broad-based support for undergraduate students in the Department of Classics, helping to cover educational expenses, research, travel costs, and study abroad.
An alumna of UW, Laura Matz wanted to honor her former first-year Greek teacher with a fund that would support future students… Read more
As always, UW will be very well represented at the annual conference of the Society for Classical Studies/Archaeological Institute of America, to be held in Philadelphia in January 2025. See below for talks and panels by UW graduate students, faculty, and alumnx!
Friday Jan 3, 2025
First Paper Session (8:00am–10:30am)
SCS-7: HYBRID: Greek Law and Oratory
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh (UW PhD ’22), “Fugitivity and Space in Apollodorus’s A… Read more
by Sarah Levin-Richardson
For over thirty years, the Department of Classics has brought students to Rome to study the monuments, art, tombstones, and graffiti produced by the million-or-so ancient residents of the caput mundi, the “head of the world.” This year was no different: eight undergraduates and two graduate students joined Prof. Sarah Levin-Richardson for a four-week exploration of ancient Rome. Each student taught a famous Roman monument (the Arch of Constantine was… Read more
I’d like to start by congratulating our 2024 graduates, including our BAs, MAs, and PhDs. Our recent PhDs have landed a range of great jobs, including teaching at… Read more
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 Bringman
Dissertation: "The Roman Revolutionaries: The Evolution of Revolution in Ancient Rome"
Mary Harrington
Dissertation: "Res Novae Feminarum: The Dissonant Roles of Roman Women in the Triumviral… Read more
by James J. Clauss
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… 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