Joshua Paul, fifth-year graduate student, wins prestigious BUCH Dissertation Fellowship
The Classical Studies department congratulates fifth-year graduate student, Joshua Paul, who has won a prestigious Dissertation Fellowship from the Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH)! Josh’s PhD dissertation focuses on visions of the afterlife in Latin love elegy. As Josh shows, the Augustan elegists developed their own vision of life after death, as part […]
Announcing the annual Antonis Fragoudakis Memorial Award
The Department of Classical Studies is delighted to announce a new award in the department, the Antonis Fragoudakis Memorial Award (established 2022). This award, which has been funded by a generous gift from Prof. Roselita Fragoudakis in memory of her father, will be given out annually to a student who demonstrates outstanding achievement in the […]
Prof. Uden wins New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Congratulations to Associate Professor James Uden, who has won a New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship, which is awarded to 12-15 recipients nationally each year, gives mid-career scholars in the humanities the time and resources to develop skills in a new field of research. Professor Uden is the second faculty […]
Classics students present at UROP Symposium Fall ’18
Last Friday three Classics undergrads, Hailey Hart-Thompson ’21, Elizabeth Kotsalidis ’20, and Chance Pompay ’19, presented at the Fall 2018 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or UROP, symposium. UROP facilitates undergraduate participation in faculty-mentored research projects, and these three students join a long line of Classics UROP scholars. A warm congratulations to the three on their […]
Professor Curtis Runnels awarded the AIA Gold Medal Award!
Professor Curtis Runnels has been awarded the prestigious Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and there will be a session honoring his legacy to archaeology on Jan 4, 2019 at the annual meeting. The Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement is awarded by the Archaeological Institute of America in “recognition of […]
Prof. Zsuzsanna Varhelyi wins the 2018 Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching!
What a treat to share this good news! Professor Zsuzsanna Varhelyi has received the 2018 Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Varhelyi’s outstanding teaching includes the creation of CL121: The Good Life. CL121 undertakes a close examination of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient world and modern psychology that address […]
Senior Evan Armacost Wins BU Alumni Award for Writing Excellence
Congratulations to senior Evan Armacost, who has won the prestigious BU Alumni Award for Writing Excellence. Only two such awards are made each year to students in CAS, and they recognize the very best research writing at Boston University. Evan’s paper, ‘Food and Fictionalization in Juvenal’s Eleventh Satire’, explores a relatively little-explored poem by the […]
Senior Gregory Kerr Defends Thesis
On April 26, 2018, Classics and Philosophy major Gregory Kerr successfully defended his honors thesis on the Modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. Mr. Kerr’s thesis, entitled “Greekness in Peril: Cavafy and the Essence of Hellenism,” argued that the poet presents an idealized form of “Hellenism” through his picture of Sparta and Spartans, especially in […]
Invitation to apply to the Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship
Boston University is currently accepting applications for the 2018-2019 Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship through May 1, 2018. The scholarship is available to full-time undergraduate and graduate students of Greek birth or ancestry who have completed at least one semester at Boston University, are in good academic standing, and demonstrate financial need. To apply, eligible students must […]
We did it — our most successful BU Giving Day ever, totaling over $3k in gifts and $13k in prizes!
Dear students, alumni, faculty, family, friends— We did it. All 144 of your donations, totaling over $3,600, helped us have our most successful BU Giving Day ever. Your enthusiasm and generosity allowed us to secure an extra $13,000 in CAS funds. We’re floored and grateful. We absolutely could not have done this without you. Your […]