Suzanne Lye was awarded a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders award, funded by the Mellon Foundation through the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (MEFL) supports early-career scholars by providing resources that encourage the development of academic … Read more

Alyssa Parrnelli, a third-year Classical Archaeology major and Data Science minor at UNC, has been awarded the Anne L. and S. Epes Robinson Honors Fellowship from Honors Carolina to join this summer’s work at the Gabii Project excavation—the exploration of … Read more

Sarah Hilker has received the Olivia James Traveling Fellowship from the Archaeological Institute of America for the 2023-24 academic year. Her proposed project, “Zygouries: The ‘The Potter’s Shop In Context,” is to reconstruct the stratigraphy and settlement history of the … Read more

Rachel Sarvey, a second-year Classical Archaeology major at UNC, has been awarded both the Anne L. and S. Epes Robinson Honors Fellowship from Honors Carolina and the Peter Knox Excavation and Field Work Award from the Classical Association of the … Read more

Cicek Beeby has been awarded two UNC grants that will support her research as she launches her dissertation work on the organization and distribution of cemeteries across Greek settlements in the Geometric period. The first grant is the Pre-Dissertation Travel … Read more

For the first time in department history, two of our undergraduate students simultaneously have won  Manson A. Stewart Undergraduate Awards for 2015. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) awarded two of its six awards to Allison … Read more

The department is pleased to announce recipients of the Eunice and Luther Nims Scholarship, the Herington Scholarship, and the Preston H. and Miriam L. Epps Prize in Greek Studies. We congratulate these students for their terrific academic achievements! Nims Scholarship … Read more

Donald Haggis was appointed Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies  in Athens (ASCSA), for the academic year 2015-2016, by vote of the Managing Committee of the School in January at the Annual Meetings of … Read more

We are happy to announce the winners of this year’s Herington Prizes. Among undergraduate readers, Philip Wilson took home the prize for Latin and Emily Fleming for Greek. Each won a $250 prize. Winning a rare book donated by Sara Mack, Brian … Read more

We congratulate Brian McPhee, an incoming graduate student, for winning the John J. Winkler Memorial Prize. McPhee won the award for “A Puer‘s Horror, Heroism, and Humor: An Interpretation of Pseudolous III.1,” a paper he wrote for Sharon James’s seminar last … Read more