Katie De Boer Simons has been named the winner of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at the annual meeting of the Classics Association of the Middle West and South. Katie will present her paper, “Blaming Helen: Inconsistency … Read more
UPDATE: Dr. Mark Mash (MA ’00, Phd ’10) has been named as one of the 13 finalists for the Wake County Public School System’s 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year Award. The recipient of the award will be announced on May … Read more
Cicek Beeby has been named a recipient of the 2016 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Cicek is currently a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in Classical Archaeology and her research focuses on the burial customs of early Greece. She … Read more
Jim O’Hara, George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at UNC, has been named President-elect of the Vergilian Society, and will serve in that position for a year before taking over as President for 2017-2019. The Vergilian Society, founded in 1937 … 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
We sadly share the news that Charles Henderson, Jr., PhD ’55, passed away on April 19, 2015, in York Harbor, ME. To honor Henderson’s life and contributions to the field of Classics and the department, the department hosted a small memorial … Read more
Emma Buckingham, Alexandra Daly and Catharine Judson have been awarded competitive fellowships to attend the Regular Program of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) for the 2015-2016 academic year: Daly, the Thomas Day Seymour Fellowship in history and literature; … 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
Rebecca Worsham has been awarded the Fieldwork Award from the Spatial Archaeometry Research Collaborations (SPARC) at the University of Arkansas’s Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) and Archaeo-Imaging Lab (AIL). In collaboration with Donald Haggis and Michael Lindbloom, Uppsla University, … Read more