Greg Woolf will spend next week at Green College in the University of British Columbia at Vancouver as a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor. While there he will…
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Professor Kathryn Morgan wins fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Study
Published: February 27, 2023Professor Kathryn Morgan has been awarded a Fellowship for the Fall 2023 term at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She will work on her book project “Plato, Thucydides,…
Read MoreTwo Classics Faculty Members receive Loeb Foundation Fellowships
Published: February 27, 2023Congratulations to Lydia Spielberg and Alex Purves who have both won Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowships to support their research projects next year. Lydia Spielberg will be working on a…
Read MoreForthcoming Publication Announcement
Published: February 24, 2023
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Ancient Methone, 2003-2013: Excavations by Matthaios Bessios, Athena Athanassiadou, and Konstantinos Noulas, edited by Sarah P. Morris and John K. Papadopoulos. This…
Read MoreNews from the Athenian Agora
Published: February 22, 2023We are excited to share this news from Professor John Papadopoulos, Director of the Athenian Agora. Please see the posts here and here (Facebook and Instagram).
Read MoreAlex Purves (Classics) and Gina Konstantopoulos (NELC) attend UC Santa Cruz “What is Life?” Conference
Published: February 21, 2023Professors Alex Purves (Classics) and Gina Konstantopoulos (NELC) recently delivered papers at the “What is Life? Ancient Answers to Modern Questions” Conference, hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute in…
Read MoreNew “Black Classicism” Course Approved for UCLA’s Diversity Requirement
Published: February 15, 2023We’re pleased to announce that Bryant Kirkland’s new course “Black Classicism: African-American Receptions of Classical Antiquity” (CL 171), which he will teach this Spring, has been approved for UCLA’s Diversity…
Read MoreA Cultural History of Ideas wins Association of American Publishers Prose Award 2023
Published: February 15, 2023Congratulations to Giulia Sissa, co-editor with Clifford Ando of volume I “Antiquity” in the Cultural History of Ideas series (Bloomsbury), which has been selected as the winner in the category…
Read MoreNicolette D’Angelo publishes “What Would Hippokrates Do?”
Published: February 6, 2023PhD student Nicolette D’Angelo has recently published “What Would Hippokrates Do? Classical Reception in the Age of COVID-19” in The Rootcutter, a new science and medicine blog founded by the…
Read MoreProfessor Greg Woolf joins UCLA Classics
Published: January 25, 2023We are delighted to announce that Professor Greg Woolf, the Ronald J Mellor Professor of Ancient History at UCLA, is joining the Classics Department on a 0% appointment. Professor Woolf has…
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