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Recent News

 

Job Placement

  • Malia Piper has been appointed Assistant Director Faculty Teaching Initiatives at the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
  • Robert Santucci is Visiting Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College, 2022-23.

 

Fellowships and Other Recognition

  • Brittany Hardy won a Rackham predoctoral Fellowship for 2023-24 and was also selected as a 2023 Sweetland Graduate Fellow.
  • Justin Barney received Honorable Mention in the Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award competition for his thesis titled "Plato and Aristotle on the Efficacy of Religious Practice."
  • Andrew Mayo’s article "Herophilus and Common Opinions" is accepted for publication by Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies.
  • Katelin Mikos will be attending the 2023 American School in Athens summer seminar on “The Archaeology of Caves in Greece: Cult and Life Through the Ages.”

 

Conference Papers

  • Nine of our students will be delivering papers at the upcoming CAMWS meeting in Provo, UT: Joseph Droegemueller, Christine Ellis, Kaitlin Karmen, Sarah Keith, William LaMarra, Antonello Mastronardi, Andrew Mayo, Katie Mikos, Sara Yeager

 

Congratulations to our recent graduates:

2022

  • Rob Santucci - Seneca and the History of Roman Eating (Director: Ruth Caston and Basil Dufallo)
  • Malia Piper - The Misunderstood Meretrix: Luxuria, Negotium, and Amicitia in Roman Comedy (Director: Ruth Caston)
  • Justin Barney - Plato and Aristotle on the Efficacy of Religious Practice (Directors: Ruth Scodel and Richard Janko) 

Visiting Assistant Professorship at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo

  • Anna Cornel - An Other View: Intersectional Identity in Classical Greece (Director: Sara Forsdyke)

Teacher of classical languages at Amadeus Lyceum in Vleuten, Utrecht, Netherlands.

 

Recent Awards

  • Alex Tarbet - Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, 2022-23.
  • Justin Barney - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
  • Drew Cabaniss - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
  • Nadhira Hill - Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022
  • William Soergel - Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Graduate Student Research Fellowship for 2021-22
  • David Morphew - ProQuest Dissertation Prize (2019): Passionate Platonism: Plutarch on the Positive Role of Non-Rational Affects in the Good Life

 

SCS 2022 Talks

 

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