General News

Tori Lee Wins Women’s Classical Caucus Leadership Award

Congratulations to Classical Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Tori Lee, who has won this year’s Leadership Award from the Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC). The award recognizes a classicist who has made an ‘outstanding contribution in encouraging and supporting scholars from underrepresented groups, particularly women, to enter and remain in our field’. Well done, Tori! Read the official […]

Interview with Maya Chakravorty

Last month, Maya Chakravorty defended her dissertation and received the honor of Ph.D. from the Boston University Classical Studies department. Maya also recently received the Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship (CFD) at Bowdoin College. We were lucky enough to sit down with her and ask her a few questions about her new position and what […]

Graduate Students Presenting at the Society for Classical Studies 2024

This year the department of Classical Studies is happy to announce that 10 of our graduate students will be presenting papers at Society for Classical Studies’ annual meeting! This year’s meeting will be held in Chicago from January 4th till the 7th. For more information on this year’s SCS meeting please visit: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2024-annual-meeting. Graduate student […]

Joshua Paul Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Joshua Paul, who successfully defended his dissertation in March 2023, has won a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Latin language, literature, and culture at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. At Queen’s University, Josh will teach two courses next year (‘Greek & Roman Drama’ and ‘Latin Poetry’), while also revising his dissertation into his first book. Josh’s […]

Zsuzsa Várhelyi Named Distinguished Teaching Professor by National Endowment for the Humanities

Associate Professor of Classical Studies Zsuzsanna Várhelyi has been announced as the next National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences! The position is awarded to a CAS faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching and research, and can help to support innovative programs in the Humanities. As part of the […]

Giving Day 2023: Thank You!

The Classical Studies department would like to say thank you to everyone who participated in this years Giving Day! Our department had our best ever Giving Day. We placed FIRST among all departments in the College of Arts and Sciences in the amount of revenue raised, and SECOND in the number of donors. This was […]

Speaking Latin & Greek Group

The Classical Studies Department would like to announce this semester’s Speaking Latin and Greek Group schedule. All meetings will be held in STH B03 February: 2/9 (Thursday), 12:30-1:30 2/13 (Monday), 3:30-4:30 2/23 (Thursday), 12:30-1:30 2/27 (Monday), 3:30-4:30   March-April: Every Monday, 3:30-4:30 See you there!

Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire Conference

Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma, and Suffering in the Roman Empire (Abstracts) Registration Register Here: https://forms.gle/QN2FKmPkGUC1eBPW6  Registration Deadline is Friday, March 1oth. The Boston University Classical Studies Department will be holding a conference entitled Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire this Spring. The conference will be held in person at Boston University on Thursday, […]