General News

Professor Samons Gives Lecture at the US Naval Academy

Professor Loren J. Samons II delivered the 40th annual George Bancroft Memorial lecture at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, on January 13, 2020. The Bancroft lecture honors American historian George Bancroft (1800-1891), who founded the U.S. Naval Academy in 1845. Previous scholars who have delivered the Bancroft lecture include Gordon Wood, Eugene […]

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 […]

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 […]

Undergrad Wins Prestigious CHS Internship

Modern Greek and Biological Anthropology major Eleni Constantinou has been selected to hold the 2018 Center for Hellenic Studies Internship in Nafplio, Greece.  These prestigious internships, offered by the Center for Hellenic Studies to non-Harvard students for the first time in 2015 and held by a Boston University student each year since that year, link […]