Luciana Villas Bôas is Professor of Anglo-Germanic Languages at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and at the Graduate Program of Germanic Languages at the Universidade de São Paulo. She is the author of Wilde Beschriftungen. Brasiliens historische Semantik … Read more
On October 5, Hérica Valladares gave a lecture in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Titled “Women Writers from Pompeii: Epistolary Fictions in Roman Wall Painting,” her paper explored well-known first-century frescoes and interrogated the traditional … Read more
Eta Sigma Phi is now offering free tutoring for Greek and Latin! Please follow the link to find a QR code to scan for a sign-up sheet. Alternatively, you can sign up with this Google Form. If you have any … Read more
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
The Department of Classics is proud to announce Katie Tardio’s recent publication in the Carolina Graduate School Magazine. Please consider supporting the article, titled Ancient food economies and centuries-old connections, by reading it on the Carolina Graduate School Magazine’s website. … Read more
The UNC Department of Classics presents Menander’s Tyche and the Fortunes of Ancient Greek Poetry Anna Uhlig, University of California, Davis Thursday, 23 March 2023, 5:00pm MU 104 Over the course of the twentieth century – the so-called “century of papyrology” – … Read more
Henry Spelman, who received his BA in Classics (Combined Greek and Latin) at UNC in 2010, has been appointed Fellow at Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge. While at UNC, Henry received the Eben Alexander and Epps Prizes in Greek, and … 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