BU Alumnus, Steven Smith, wins 2020 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
Steven Smith, Professor of Comparative Literature at Hofstra University and alumnus of the PhD program at Boston University (2004), has won the Society of Classical Studies’ highest award for publication, the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. His winning title is Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture: Gender, Desire and Denial in the Age of Justinian (Cambridge University Press, 2019), a pioneering account of same-sex desire in the epigrams of the poet Agathias in the sixth century CE. This is the third monograph of Professor Smith, who was also the invited guest speaker of the BU Classical Studies Graduate Student conference in 2018. Congratulations to Professor Smith on this wonderful achievement!
Read more about his book here: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/2020-charles-j-goodwin-award-merit-winners.