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The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)<\/h3>\n

Undergraduate majors in the Department of \u00a0Classical Studies have the opportunity to pursue research interests. UROP\u00a0<\/strong>provides financial support for student research stipends, supplies, and travel.\u00a0Research through UROP must take place under the guidance of a BU faculty mentor, and is defined as any scientific or scholarly activity that contributes to the production of new knowledge. Visit their website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Summer 2022<\/h3>\n

Aarohi Goel<\/strong>, <\/strong>UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nAre You Truly Friends? A Translation and Interpretation of Cicero\u2019s De Amicitia.<\/em>
\nFaculty mentor: Professor Zsuzsanna V\u00e1rhelyi<\/p>\n

Carter Fahey, <\/strong>UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nPer Oculi Antiquitatum: Reframing Modern Politics Through Ancient Art<\/em>
\nFaculty mentor: Professor Stephanie Nelson<\/p>\n

Fall 2019<\/h3>\n

Elisabeth Kotsalidis<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nAn Investigation of Homer’s <\/em>Iliad
\nFaculty mentor: Professor Stephen Scully<\/p>\n

Spring 2019<\/h3>\n

Mari Rooney<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nComputer Aided Analysis of Greek Poetic Meter
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Alexander Nikolaev
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Fall 2018<\/h3>\n

Hailey Hart-Thompson<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nThe Happiness Capacity: The Pursuit of Eudaimonic Happiness in Contemporary Cultural Environments
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Zsuzsanna V\u00e1rhelyi
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph Salzo<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nVisualizing Social Networks in Letters from Ancient Rome With Gephi
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Hannah\u00a0<\/span>\u010cul\u00edk-Baird
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Summer 2018<\/h3>\n

Elisabeth Kotsalidis<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>An Investigation into Greek Etymology: Lexical Borrowings from Anatolia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chance Pompay<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nDiscovering the Correspondence between Roman Aristocratic Agricultural Literature and Physical Villa Construction and Design at the Villa di Vacone.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Nikolaev<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Fall & Summer 2017<\/h3>\n

Gregory Kerr,<\/strong>\u00a0UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\n‘Didn’t They _______ Over There?’ \u2014 Debunking Historical and Cultural Myths and Misconceptions Around the World.
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor David Roochnik, Department of Philosophy
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Gideon Breslaw,<\/strong> UROP Humanities Scholars Award, and
\nElizabeth Higgins,<\/strong> UROP Humanities Scholars Award, and
\nSuzanna Levey
\n<\/strong>Editing the <\/em>Oxford Handbook of Hesiod
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Stephen Scully
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Gregory Kerr<\/strong>, UROP Humanities Scholars Award\u00a0
\n<\/strong>\u201cWhy Can\u2019t We All Just Get Along?\u201d: The History of Abrahamic Religions, Their Societies, Their Philosophies, and Their Conflicts
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Loren Jay Samons
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Spring 2016\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Gideon Breslaw,<\/strong> UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nReconstruction and Translation of Phoenician Text
\n<\/em>(Faculty mentor: Professor Alexander Nikolaev)<\/p>\n

Gregory Kerr,<\/strong> UROP Humanities Scholars Award
\nProving Thucydides Right: Human Nature and Repeated Actions Throughout History.
\n<\/em>Faculty mentor: Professor Stephanie Nelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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