News and Events
Join the Department of Religious Studies as the present:Evil in Marcion's Conception of the "Old Testament" God'A guest lecture by Dr. Dieter T. Roth Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, GermanyThusday, October 13, 2016 in HUMN 350 at 3PMMarcion
Please join us for a public lecture byProfessor Lisa Bailey, University of Auckland“Servants of God, Servants of the Church: Service and Religion in Early Mediaeval France”Tuesday, October 11 at 5PM in HUMN125Co-sponsored by the Department of- Announcement of the 2016 Mary E. V. McClanahan Graduate Essay PrizeSummary: Classics Graduate students are invited to submit essays to be judged by a committee of three faculty members. The writer of the essay judged to be the best will receive $1,
- Congratulations to the 2016 Dwyer Translation Prize Winnners! This year's Dwyer Latin Translation Prize Winner is Susan Niederhoff, Astrophysics major and Classics minor. Susan won the prize for her translation of lines 390-405 of Book 9 of Vergil's
- Dimitri Nakassis Elected to ASCSA CommitteeDimitri Nakassis, Associate Professor of Classics, has been elected to the Information Technology Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2016-2021 term.
Book by Classics scholar finds gendered subversion in Athenian festival of Adonis.- Jackie Elliott's book, *Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales* (Cambridge 2013), is being recognized by a Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit! Three Goodwin Awards are granted annually for an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship published by a member of the Society for Classical Studies during the three years before the current calendar year.
This is a magnificent achievement -- many congratulations, Jackie!
- Professor Andy Cain has been granted the Provost's Faculty Achievement Award! Beautifully framed, and with embossed gold decoration on the certificate! This is a very prestigious award granted by our Provost to a select few faculty each year to
- Professor Sarah James is now accepting applications to join her archaeological field school in Greece!The Western Argolid Regional Project provides an amazing opportunity to do archaeological fieldwork in Greece and get six upper-division credits.