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The Department of Classics at UCLA is pleased to announce the following opportunity designed to advance our goals of diversity and inclusion. We are offering a one-year tuition scholarship for our post-baccalaureate program in Classics for the academic year 2022-2023, designed to benefit a promising candidate for graduate work who needs an extra year of…

We are delighted to announce that Kathryn Morgan has been named the Joan Palevsky Chair in Classics. We are extremely grateful to Joan Palevsky for the generosity and vision she has extended to the department in endowing this chair. In addition to supporting the department through the Joan Palevsky Chair in Classics, we continue to benefit from her…

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Congratulations to Greek and Latin major Dido Wang (class of 2022) who has been awarded the prestigious Lionel Pearson Fellowship for one year of postgraduate study in Classics in a UK university next year!

Each year the Department is pleased to bestow the annual Helen Caldwell Awards and Prizes, named in honor of a dedicated teacher of Greek and Latin in our department for over thirty years (1939-70). Helen Caldwell graduated in the first class at UCLA to award the Bachelor of Arts in 1925 and earned her MA…

Click here for PDF Job Ad The Department of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been authorized to make an appointment to a full-time position in Latin literature and culture at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, with tenure, effective July 1, 2022. We invite applicants who are advanced Assistant Professors…

The Department of Classics is delighted to announce the promotion of Professor David Blank to the rank of Distinguished Professor. As friends of the department know, Professor Blank is an internationally renowned scholar of ancient philosophy and particularly of the Herculaneum papyri and the philosophical study of language in ancient Greece and Rome.  His prolific…

Congratulations to the Class of 2021! The Classics Department wanted to mark this special occasion and let you know that we are thinking of you on this momentous occasion. Please take a moment to watch our StageClips video celebrating your accomplishments. We are all wishing you well as you embark on this next chapter!