This year, the department’s Evangelia Davos prize was awarded to undergraduate student Marie Wei. Each year, the prize Evangelia Davos Prize is awarded to the undergraduate major or minor in […]

Professor Nandini Pandey has won a $20K Loeb Classical Library research grant for her ongoing project Race against Time / Futures of Ancient Race. This grant will sustain the building […]

Yanneck Wiegers, PhD student in Classics, won a research fellowship at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute for Spring 2025 to collaborate with colleagues from a wide range of academic backgrounds. […]

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 […]

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, 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, 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, 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]