01/31/2018 - Professor Angeliki Tzanetou has been awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Award in Humanities Teaching Release Time for AY 2018-2019.
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01/31/2018 - Classics undergraduate Sneha Adusumilli (B.A. May 2018) was awarded the prestigious Society for Classical Studies Minority Scholarship to study abroad this summer in Italy at an archaeological dig.
01/30/2018 - Professor Antony Augoustakis and Illinois PhD alumna, Barbara Wallach (Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia) co-edited the late Professor Luitpold Wallach’s edition of the Libri...
01/08/2018 - Professor Ariana Traill has been named the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar in LAS for three years beginning in January 2018 for her outstanding achievements in research and teaching.
12/14/2017 - Craig Williams is one of six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2018...
11/16/2017 - Classics Undergraduate Travel Award The Classics Department is offering a travel award to be used between June 2018 and June 2019. The award amount of $2000.00 may be used for any program that...
11/01/2017 - Grand Challenge 128 course of Prof. Clara Bosak-Schroeder ("Sustainability in Fiction") was featured in the ...
10/18/2017 - BAT Classics alumnus James Stark (2015) receives the Illinois Latin Teacher of the Year (MMXVII) award from the Illinois Classical Conference on October 7, 2017 for his amazing transformation of the...
07/01/2017 - "The summer of 2017 I participated in the Poggio Civitate excavation. The 6-week program gave varied training in both field work and preservation work in the lab. I participated mostly in the lab...
10/21/2016 - Postmarks 2016
09/25/2016 - The Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies was held on September 30 - October 1, 2016 at Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, sponsored by the Department of the Classics. See...
08/16/2016 - Please welcome Serena Witzke (Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill) to the Dept. of the Classics as the new visiting position in Classics and Classical Reception for 2016-17. Dr. Witzke specializes in Roman and...
08/16/2016 - Please welcome Katharine Kreindler (Ph.D. Stanford) to the Dept. of the Classics as the new visiting position in archaeology for 2016-17. Dr. Kreindler has extensive experience excavating in Italy....
08/02/2016 - Antony Augoustakis has just published a collection of articles in the series Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, Titled Flavian Epic. The epics of the three Flavian poets-Silius...
07/01/2016 - "The summer of 2016 I spent taking an immersive course in Latin and a supplementary course in Ancient Greek at the Accademia Vivarium Novum was a unique and, for me, very enriching experience. The...
