News
May 3, 2013
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 Christenson
was a winner of…
May 2, 2013
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 College, has been
…
May 1, 2013
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.
April 22, 2013
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 Association…
April 20, 2013
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 was…
April 12, 2013
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 Antiquity,"
and she led a graduate…
March 8, 2013
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 1890. This is a…
Oct. 29, 2012
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 National Association…
Sept. 27, 2012
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…
Sept. 20, 2012
Owing to the generosity of an anonymous donor, book prizes have been provided for M.A. Greek and Latin translation competitions:
Erskine Caldwell Latin Translation Competition – Tuesday, April 21, 6:30-7:30 pm in LSB 246
Erskine Caldwell Greek…
Sept. 20, 2012
Several Classics faculty members will participate in the Hellenic Cultural Foundation’s lecture series at this year’s Tucson's Greek Festival (September 20-23). The full schedule of lectures can be found here.
Sept. 10, 2012
June 2012 saw a dozen UA students participate in the inaugural year of Arizona in the Aegean. The four-week program introduces students to the culturally rich Greek islands of Paros, Naxos, Santorini, and Delos, where they learn about ancient and…