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August 16, 2022
Congratulations to our PhD students Jonathan Clark and Lauryn Hanley, who have been awarded 2022-23 Joff Hanauer for Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowships! As Hanauer Fellows, Jonathan and Lauryn will participate in a bi-monthly seminar led by Professors Jason Groves and Sabine Wilke, Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization. The goals of this program are to foster creative and critical work in the Western cultural tradition and to help prepare teachers... Read more
August 12, 2022
This spring saw the film debut of “Psyche and Cupid,” written by Lauren Dudley (BA ’13, also doing prop design and construction), Ashli Baker (PhD ’11, also serving as dramaturg), and Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth (also serving as director), and produced by Trial & Error Productions. This fantastic film, which features a combination of human actors, puppets, and music, is based on the story of Cupid and Psyche, a tale narrated in the... Read more
June 22, 2022
Congratulations to the students of the Classics community at the University of Washington for their accomplishments over the past academic year, 2021–2022!
DEGREES CONFERRED AND EXPECTED
Ph.D. in Classics
Sarah Brucia BreitenfeldDissertation: “Someone Get a Whip!” Enslaved Women and Violence in Athenian Oratory, Comedy and Curses
Grace FunstenDissertation: En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan elegy in Latin verse epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise... Read more
May 20, 2022
Our newest faculty member Prof. Chris Waldo is making quite a splash at the UW! This month Prof. Waldo was featured in the May issue of the UW College of Arts and Sciences newsletter Perspectives ("In Classics, a Different Take on Race") in which he discusses a class he is currently teaching, "Race and Identity in Antiquity", and his work as co-chair of the ... Read more
April 13, 2022
During the pandemic, while all University of Washington classes were taught online, UW Tacoma alumna Katherine Davis enrolled in Introductory Ancient Greek through the Department of Classics. She enjoyed the experience so much, she wanted to share it with other students. To this end she made a generous donation to the Department of Classics in aid of developing an online Ancient Greek course that would be offered even once classes were back in person. Graduate student Kaitlyn Boulding, who has... Read more
March 13, 2022
To elucidate the world of ancient prostitution, Haaretz columnist Terry Madenholm turned to UW Classics Professor Sarah Levin-Richardson. Well known for her 2019 book, The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of the Roman Empire, Prof. Levin-... Read more
March 4, 2022
UW Classics PhD student Kaitlyn Boulding, co-founder of the Textile Studies Graduate Research Cluster (GRC), describes the GRC as "an experiment in public scholarship and interdisciplinary community building." Read more about this exciting work here!
January 6, 2022
Congratulations to UW Classics PhD students Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld and Grace Funsten for winning awards for the best graduate student papers of 2021 from the Women’s Classical Caucus and the Lambda Classical Caucus, respectively!
WCC Best Pre-PhD Paper Award:
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, “While she was drunk, many others had sex with her. Reexamining Violence in Dem. 19.196-98 and [Dem.] 59.33-35,” presented at CAMWS 2021
Through careful close readings of two narratives, Sarah Brucia... Read more
December 11, 2021
December 8, 2021
Prof. Chris Waldo engaged in a lively conversation with the UW Alumni Book Club on Tuesday, December 7, in conjunction with their reading of Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land. Among other things, he discussed the joys of reading Greek, the exciting ways the field of Classics is changing in the 21st century, and the continued relevance of the stories and cultures of Greco-Roman antiquity. You can watch the conversation... Read more