News & Announcements Archive

Professor Emeritus Gareth Schmeling publishes new translation

Professor Emeritus Gareth Schmeling publishes new translation

Congratulations to Gareth Schmeling, Fellow-by-Courtesy, JHU Classics, and Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, on the publication of the text and a translation of the Satyrica, traditionally attributed to Neronian Petronius […]

Emily Anderson wins Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

Emily Anderson wins Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

Prof. Emily Anderson has been chosen as one of 36 early career faculty members to receive a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, an honor that is accompanied by a $75,000 grant, […]

Skylar Hurst and William Lewis win Evangelia Davos Prize

Congratulations to Skylar Hurst and William Lewis, recipients of the 2020 Evangelia Davos Prize in Classics. Skylar is a senior in the Classics BA/MA program and will complete her MA work in her fourth […]

Prof. Silvia Montiglio receives Loeb Classical Library Foundation Award

Prof. Silvia Montiglio receives Loeb Classical Library Foundation Award

Congratulations to Prof. Silvia Montiglio, who has received a sizable grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to fund a sabbatical during which she will complete a substantial introduction to […]

Emma Roalsvig wins Evangelia Davos Prize

Congratulations to Emma Roalsvig, recipient of the 2019 Evangelia Davos Prize. Each year the Department of Classics awards the prize to the undergraduate major or minor in classics whose work in Greek studies has been outstanding. This cash prize was established in 2007 by a gift from Peter Davos ’00 and is named in honor of his aunt.

Open Lab Night for the John Addington Symonds Project

Open Lab Night for the John Addington Symonds Project

Student researchers in the John Addington Symonds Project (JASP) opened the Classics Research Lab (CRL) to scores of visitors on May 1. They demonstrated the project’s new website, symondsproject.org, and […]

Symonds Project website launches

Symonds Project website launches

The John Addington Symonds Project (JASP), which is part of the Classics Research Lab (CRL), has launched its new website, symondsproject.org. There you can learn about the project and its […]

Marcel Detienne, Gildersleeve Professor Emeritus of Classics, passes away

Professor Detienne was one of the most prominent classicists of his generation. A Belgian-born historian and renowned specialist in the study of ancient Greece, he taught in the Department of Classics from 1992 until his retirement in 2007. His career was dedicated to an innovative— even audacious—crossing of disciplinary boundaries, notably setting anthropology and history in dialogue as a means of bringing new questions and insights to the study of ancient Greece.

Classics Research Lab launches Spring 2019

Classics Research Lab launches Spring 2019

An exciting initiative in the Classics Department will give undergraduates an opportunity to engage directly with ongoing research projects.

Department welcomes new graduate students

Department welcomes new graduate students

Two new students have joined the PhD program in Classics: Connor Sedlacek and Yanneck Wiegers.