We are delighted to announce that Julio Cesar Vega-Payne will be joining our Department as one of five new UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows in 2022-23. Julio earned his PhD in…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Classics PhD student Andres Matlock has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. Andres received his…
Read MoreThe graduate students of the Department of Classics at UCLA are happy to share a call for papers for the forthcoming graduate conference, “Knowing & Knowing Nothing: Learning, Teaching, and Apprenticeship…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that PhD student Collin Moat has been awarded the Thomas Day Seymour Fellowship to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for…
Read MoreWith the money received from the Society for Classical Studies for Richard Ellis’ Teaching award, the Classics Department has instituted a new Textbook fund. This fund will assist students in…
Read MoreThe department is pleased to announce that parents, Prof. Sarah Beckmann and Prof. Sam Beckelhymer, welcomed baby Julian David Beckelhymer on August 20th, 2021! Julian, who also goes by Jude,…
Read MoreApril 1st-2nd, 2022 | Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Sadly for us, Amy Richlin will be retiring at the end of the coming academic year. We look forward to…
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Adriana Vazquez has been awarded a Rome Prize next year for her project “Window Reception: Brazilian Neoclassical Poetry and Lusophone Classics Across the…
Read MoreThe Department of Classics is pleased and proud to announce that John Papadopoulos, Distinguished Professor of Classics at UCLA, has been named the next Director of the Excavations of the Athenian Agora, at…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Professor Ella Haselswerdt has been awarded the AJP Best Article Prize for 2019, for her article “Sound and the Sublime in Sophocles’ Oedipus at…
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