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 The Department of Classics is proud to announce that its search for  two Visiting Assistant Professors has been successfully completed with  the hiring of Drs. Robert Groves and Alexandra Kennedy.   Dr. Groves received his…

 The Executive Council of the American Classical League (ACL) has named Dr. Cynthia White as the new  Director of its National Latin and Greek Teacher Placement Service. The ACL operates the National Latin  and Greek Teacher…

Front Row (L. to R.): Stefania Mitzithras, Kevin Lubrano, Dr. John Bauschatz, Dr. Eleni Hasaki; Middle Row (L. to R.): Emily Hulme, Dr. Julia Annas, Marissa Gurtler, Laura Grantham-Ortiz, Dr. Mike Lippman, Katie Littlefield, Amanda Cookson-…

   The University of Arizona held its annual Awards of Distinction Ceremony on  Monday, April 29. Each year, five faculty members are honored as the  recipients of the university's most distinguished awards. Dr. David…

UA Alumnus and current Professor of Classics at Austin College Dr. Robert Cape has won an Ovatio, CAMWS's highest award. Here is the story from the Austin College Campus News:   Dr. Robert Cape, Professor of Classics at Austin…

Under the supervision of Dr. Eleni Hasaki, art student Steve Carcello has built a working reconstruction of an ancient Greek pottery wheel. See the full story in UA News.      

Dr. Cynthia White has won the AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’S 2013 PEDAGOGY AWARD. As a result of its recent capital campaign, Gatekeeper to Gateway: The Campaign for Classics in the Twenty-first Century, the American Philological…

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) has named Dr. Cynthia White as a Summer 2013 Faculty Director of its Prato (Italy) Study Abroad Program. White’s course The Grand Tour: Rome and Its Reception Through the Ages…

 Dr. Eleni Hasaki delivered the 2013 C. Densmore Curtis  Distinguished  Lecture at Bryn Mawr College on April 12. Her lecture was entitled "From  Mistakes to Masterpieces: Craft Apprenticeship in Classical…

Historian Victor Duray   The Department of Classics is grateful to Harry and Marti Vardakis for their donation of a seven volume set of History of Greece by Victor Duray with an introduction by J.P. Mahaffy, published in Boston in …

 Elizabeth Weldon (B.A. Classics and Anthropology) has received a prestigious Remarkable  Women Award in Orange County, CA. Weldon's law firm, Snell & Wilmer, announced that  partner Elizabeth Weldon has been recognized as a…

The Department of Classics is pleased to welcome two new faculty members this year, Dr. Mark Thatcher and Dr. Philip Waddell, both of whom are serving as Visiting Assistant Professors during the 2012-13 academic year. This semester, Dr. Waddell is…