Jordan Preuss, a recent graduate of the Post-Baccalaureate program has been named a recipient of a Ertegun Scholarship at Oxford University. Jordan will be a member of Merton College where she plans to study Greek and Latin linguistics during her … Read more
The Classics Department is seeking students for summer coursework in 2016! Courses offered this summer include Sex and Gender in Antiquity, Medical Terminology, Egyptian Archaeology, and Classical Mythology. Summer study offers a great opportunity to learn about the ancient world … Read more
Classics major Philip Wilson has been named a winner of the 2015-2016 Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Manson A. Stewart Undergraduate Award. The awards are given to a limited number of Classics majors at the sophomore … Read more
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