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September 23, 2023
by Sarah Levin-Richardson
Building on the Department of Classics’ 30+ year tradition of taking students to Rome, eight undergraduates and two graduate students joined Prof. Levin-Richardson in Early Fall (mid-August to mid-September) for 1,000 years of Roman history in four weeks.
Highlights included the Colosseum as it emptied out after a long day, wandering around the ruins of Rome’s port of Ostia, seeing the colorful details of ancient Rome’s wall paintings and mosaics, and learning about... Read more
August 10, 2023
This month's Perspectives, the UW College of Arts & Sciences newsletter, featured an article on the Husky Athletics study abroad program which Prof. Jim Clauss led this summer.
June 13, 2023
Congratulations to the students of the Classics community at the University of Washington for their accomplishments over the past academic year, 2022–2023!
DEGREES CONFERRED AND EXPECTED
Ph.D. in Classics
Kaitlyn BouldingDissertation: "Craft and Cosmogonies: The Reception of Hesiod in Plato’s Timaeus-Critias"
Joshua ZacksDissertation: "Agonistic Intertextuality: Studies in Pindar and Bacchylides"
M.A. in Classics
Emma BuechnerMA Paper: "Call... Read more
April 26, 2023
by Sarah Culpepper Stroup
From April 20th to 22nd, a group of eleven excited 8th graders from Nespelem School on the Colville Reservation work up early, boarded a school bus, and crossed the state to spend three days exploring the UW, meeting Indigenous students and faculty, and even joining a field trip with Humanities First undergraduates.
After arriving on Thursday afternoon and checking into the Watertown Hotel just off campus, the group bused up to Sarah Stroup’s house for a large group... Read more
January 17, 2023
by Deborah Kamen
When Prof. Daniel P. Harmon passed away on July 25, 2021, he left a number of lasting legacies. In addition to creating the Department’s Seminar in Rome in 1987 and expanding the number of faculty in our Department (thus contributing to the thriving Department we have today), Dan provided a truly generous... Read more
December 19, 2022
September 26, 2022
Grace Funsten (PhD '22), who wrote her dissertation "En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise Labé" under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Hinds, was recently featured in UW Magazine for her work on Roman epitaphs. The holder of a prestigious Rome Prize... Read more
September 8, 2022
I’d like to start by offering hearty congratulations to our 2022 graduates, including those graduating with BAs, MAs, and PhDs. I’m also delighted to announce that our newly minted PhDs have moved on to exciting new jobs, including a postdoctoral fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and... Read more
September 6, 2022
by James J. Clauss
In June of this year (2022), I had the opportunity to teach a group of student athletes in Rome, initiated by UW Student Athletics and supported by International Programs and Exchanges and the UW Rome Center. There were 6 football players (one whose first name is Rome), 5 female athletes (2 soccer players, 2 gymnasts, 1 softball player) and 1 non-student athlete, 12 in all. This is the first time I taught a group of mixed athletes either here or abroad. In the past, I worked... Read more
September 2, 2022
Melissa Barker, a UW Classics major, won a prestigious Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year. This scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to highly deserving Washington State resident students majoring in the College of Arts and Sciences. A talented linguist, a thoughtful conversationalist, and a stellar writer, Melissa continues to impress us all!