Award-winning Work in Ancient Gender and Sexuality

The Lambda Classical Caucus of the American Philological Association has chosen members of our Department for both its major awards this year, honoring them for their work on gender and sexuality in Greco-Roman Antiquity:

The Graduate Student Paper Award, a new award designed ‘to encourage and reward scholarship by pre-Ph.D. scholars on issues related to the LCC’s mission’, was given for 2011 to Craig Russell for his talk (from the 2011 APA Annual Meeting) ‘Boy Interrupted: Liminalities of Gender and Genre in Statius’ Achilleid and Silvae 3.4’.

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The Rehak Award, in memory of Paul Rehak, has been given to Amy Richlin for her article: ‘Old Boys: Teacher-Student Bonding in Roman Oratory’, Classical World 105 (2011): 37-53.

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These honors come on the heels of the award of the Winkler Memorial Prize for 2010, in memory of Jack Winkler for work by a graduate student in ‘risky or marginal’ fields of Classics, to Cameron Fitzsimmons for his paper:‘Dignitas Servilis: The Subjectivity of Male Slaves in Plautus’.

Congratulations to all three of our colleagues!

For more information on these awards, go to:

http://www.lambdacc.org/awards/
http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/classics/winkler.dot