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August 26, 2022
by Sarah Levin-Richardson
Time to get your passport ready! What better way to learn about the ancient Romans than to immerse yourself in the monuments, art, and landscapes of a city that almost a million people from Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa called home?
Building on more than thirty years of offering the Classical Seminar in Rome, UW Classics is planning to head to Rome during Early Fall (mid-August to mid-September) 2023. Students will be based out of the... Read more
August 18, 2022
by James J. Clauss
Professor Jackie Murray’s career in Classics started at the University of Guelph, where she double majored in Classical Studies and Latin with Profs. Victor Matthews, Padraig O’Cleirigh, and Kristin Lord. This was followed by an MA in Classics from Western University (London Ontario). Afterwards Jackie returned to Guelph to pursue a PhD in Ancient Philosophy with a focus on the Phaedo. But during her first year there, she attended the Groningen workshop on Apollonius... Read more
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