The Department of Classics endorses and supports the following resolutions and statements made in response to the Board of Governors’ deposition of the Confederate Memorial known as Silent Sam. Resolution passed by the UNC-CH’s Faculty Council on 6 December 2019 … Read more

Associate Professor Luca Grillo was a guest on an episode of BBC Radio’s The Forum earlier this week where he discussed the life and legacy of Julius Caesar. You can listen to the episode or download the podcast here.

UNC Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster is part of a small team recently awarded a 1.5 Million Euro European Research Council Starting Grant in support of their archaeological work in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. As a member of the French Archaeological … Read more

The Department of Classics is delighted to welcome Patricia Rosenmeyer as our new Paddison Professor of Classics.  Professor Rosenmeyer received her PhD from Princeton in 1987 and after teaching at Michigan and Yale joined the faculty of the University of … Read more

Congratulations to our 2017 PhDs for the successful defenses of their dissertations and for a successful season in a very tough job market. Elizabeth Artemis Clark, ‘The Chronicle of Novalese: Translation, Text, and Literary Analysis’; Liz continues as a full-time … Read more

Sarah Bond, a 2011 UNC PhD in Ancient History and a familiar figure in Murphey Hall, has achieved a growing reputation in the field of digital humanities, with a popular blog and over 10,000 followers on Twitter (@SaraEBond).  Sarah, currently … Read more

Sarah Hilker has received the Janice and Herbert Benario Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.  She will use the award to participate in the Postgraduate Course in Linear B and Mycenaean Greek at the British … Read more

Senior Classics student Perla Azucena Castillejos has been awarded a minority scholarship for undergraduate students from the Society for Classical Studies.  The scholarship aims to help students further their preparation in classics or classical archaeology during the summer with programs … Read more

Of the twenty-four faculty members and teaching assistants selected for University teaching awards this spring, three find their home in the Department of Classics.  Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster received a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; Professor-emeritus William Race won … Read more