Teaching Assistant Amanda Ball has been awarded the Cecil W. Wooten Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching. This is a new annual award given to a graduate student in the Department of Classics who has demonstrated excellence in teaching.  … Read more

Ph.D. Candidate Brandon Baker is the 2020 recipient of the Olivia James Traveling Fellowship award from the Archaeological Institute of America. Baker intends to travel and study on the island of Evia in Greece. His project will explore “the Roman … Read more

The Herington Greek and Latin Poetry Prizes, established in 1999 by Maynard and Florence Mack in memory of John Herington, are awarded for the best oral performance of assigned passages of Greek and Latin poetry. There are two cash prizes, … Read more

Dr. Joy Reeber, a 2004 UNC graduate, reports on an online debate about racial diversity and inclusivity which sparked after the Society for Classical Studies’ annual meeting. She includes a conversation with Arum Park, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies … Read more

Jermaine Bryant, a senior majoring in classics, Robertson Scholar, and now an alumnus of our department, received a Diversity Award from Carolina’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion on April 29th. He was recognized for his mentorship and critique of Latin … Read more

PhD student Kelly McArdle has a new column published in online journal Eidolon. Eidolon describes itself as “making the classics political and personal, feminist and fun.” It publishes pieces about the ancient and modern world, pedagogy, pop culture, culture only classicists care … Read more

Congratulations to Brian McPhee, one of our graduate students, for winning the Arthur Ross Rome Prize. The American Academy in Rome presents these fellowships to support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. For 2019-2020, Rome Prizes … Read more

Matthew received a 2019-20 pre-doctoral fellowship from the Getty Research Institute to complete his dissertation (“Public Entertainment Venues as Urban Network Actors in Roman Macedonia and Thrace”) at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, CA. There he will also regularly meet and attend lectures with other pre- … Read more

Susan Meyer, ’09, has a BA in Latin and Italian with a minor in Classical Humanities. She graduated UNC’s MAT program with a master’s degree in education with an emphasis on Latin. She is currently a Latin teacher at Culbreth … Read more

Jennifer Gates-Foster, assistant professor of the Classics department, gave commentary about Egyptian archaeologists’ recent discovery of more than 40 mummies. USA Today’s article details more about the discovery of the remains found in Minya, a province roughly 150 miles south … Read more