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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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. … Continued

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” – … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

How should we cope with life’s vicissitudes? Do forces outside of our control impinge upon our ability to live meaningful and good lives? Are love and reason fundamentally at odds with each other? Join the Department of Philosophy and the … Continued

The Department of Philosophy and the Department of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill are pleased to invite you to join us for a two-part discussion series (free & open to the public) at Flyleaf Books that will cover the social … Continued

Last weekend, Emily Baragwanath had the honor of presenting at a conference titled “Creolizing the Greeks: Inventions, Resistances, and Transformations”. The conference was hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University and organized by Christopher Moore and Eduardo … Continued