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Karen ní Mheallaigh wins JHU Discovery Award

Karen ní Mheallaigh wins JHU Discovery Award

Congratulations to Prof. Karen ní Mheallaigh who has won a prestigious JHU Discovery Award (along with William Egginton (MLL), Yulia Frumer (HoST), Jeremy Greene (Medicine), Earle Havens (MSEL), and Marc […]

Laura Evans wins Evangelia Davos Prize second time

Laura Evans wins Evangelia Davos Prize second time

Congratulations to Laura Evans, recipient of the 2022 Evangelia Davos Prize in Classics. Laura is a two-time winner of the prize, having also won in 2021. She graduated with honors […]

Michele Asuni successfully defends dissertation

Michele Asuni successfully defends dissertation

Michele Asuni, a PhD student in Classics, successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Pathos Visible: Color, Emotion and Affect in Ancient Greece from Homer to Heliodorus, on February 11, 2022. The […]

Melissa Toomey successfully defends dissertation

Melissa Toomey successfully defends dissertation

Melissa Toomey, a PhD student in Classics, successfully defended her doctoral thesis, entitled The Poet and the Bee in Classical Literature, on October 15, 2021. The thesis was directed by […]

Giacomo Loi wins fellowship at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

Giacomo Loi wins fellowship at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

Giacomo Loi, PhD candidate in Classics, is the recipient of a prestigious doctoral fellowship at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (FMS) and will be spending the academic […]

Matthew Roller elected president of Society for Classical Studies

Matthew Roller elected president of Society for Classical Studies

Prof. Matthew Roller has been elected president of the Society for Classical Studies, the national professional association and learned society for Classicists. He will serve as President-elect from January 2022 […]

New book by Karen ní Mheallaigh nominated for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2021

New book by Karen ní Mheallaigh nominated for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2021

Prof. Karen ní Mheallaigh’s new book, The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy (Cambridge, 2020), has been short-listed for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award […]

What’s Old is New Again

What’s Old is New Again

What do replicas of ancient Greek sculptures and Minoan frescoes have in common with Baltimore culture? It turns out quite a bit, according to Emily Anderson, assistant professor of classics. She […]

Laura Evans wins Evangelia Davos Prize

Congratulations to Laura Evans, recipient of the 2021 Evangelia Davos Prize in Classics. Laura is a junior with a triple major in Molecular and Cellular Biology; Classics; and Medicine, Science, […]

Past Meets Present Among the Antioch Mosaic Tiles

Past Meets Present Among the Antioch Mosaic Tiles

Assistant professor Jennifer Stager first held the course the Antioch Recovery Project in spring 2020, focusing on mosaic tiles from the ancient city of Antioch. The course is featured in the March 2021 Arts […]