Professor of Classics Sharon L. James has edited and published a volume of essays on the Roman elegiac poet Propertius.  Golden Cynthia: Essays on Propertius, from the University of Michigan Press, includes two substantial posthumous essays by the late Barbara … Read more

On Saturday, 6 November 2022, the Orange County Historical Museum is organizing a program on Preston H. Epps, the long-time Classics professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Featuring remarks from Preston Mitchell, Epps’ grandson and author of … Read more

Jen Gates-Foster’s fieldwork and public programming project at Old Fort is featured in an article in this month’s Carolina Arts and Sciences. The work is a component of the Catawba Vale Cooperative , a collaboration of the Department of Classics, … Read more

During the 2021-22 academic year, Cole Warlick, a PhD student in Classical Archaeology at UNC, was the Ackland Art Museum Digital Content Fellow. Cole’s fellowship was part of the university’s Humanities for the Public Good Program, which aimed to offer … Read more

Join Amanda C. Ball next Monday, 9/12, to learn about her recent work! Ball, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Classics, spent the summer surveying on the Greek island of Samothrace. She will be presenting a preliminary report of … 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

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

Donald Haggis was appointed Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies  in Athens (ASCSA), for the academic year 2015-2016, by vote of the Managing Committee of the School in January at the Annual Meetings of … Read more

In fall 2013, Robert Babcock presented his Latin paleography graduate students with a challenge. He asked three of his students to determine the origins of a collection of over fifty eleventh-century manuscripts from the Belgian Royal Library. This neglected area of … Read more