DEPARTMENT NEWS

May 2009

The Department of Classics takes great pleasure in announcing the 2009 Stinnecke Prize winner is Kevin Moch '10.

Congratulations Kevin!

April 2009

The department proudly congratulates classics undergrad Stephen Hammer '09 on being named 2009 Latin salutatorian! Read more here.

The Classics Department proudly congratulates our Chair, Denis Feeney who has been selected for a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship!

February 2009

The Classics Department congratulates Undergrad Coordinator Jill Arbeiter on ten years of service to Princeton University!

November 2008

We are proud to congratulate Stephen Hammer '09 on being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. A Classics major, Stephen will pursue a Master's degree in Theology before carrying on to the army posting he has been preparing for in Princeton's Army ROTC program. We all wish him well for his studies in Oxford. Read more here.

October 2008

Two Classics majors, Stephen J. Hammer and William P. Sullivan, were among the 15 seniors who on the basis of their outstanding academic records received early admission to Phi Beta Kappa. The formal induction took place in Prospect House on October 6th. Congratulations to Stephen and Will!

September 2008

The department is pleased to announced that classics graduate candidate, Danielle Meinrath has won the 2008 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for "The Ancilla and her Ass: Re-reading Photis in Apuleius' Metamorphoses". More information about this award can be found here.

June 2008

On Monday June 2, Joshua Katz was presented with the 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in a ceremony in Richardson Auditorium. Each year the junior inductees to Princeton's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa are asked by the chapter to define what they understand to be excellence in teaching, and then to select two members of the faculty who they believe exemplify those characteristics. Congratulations to Joshua on being one of the two Princeton faculty members selected!

May 2008

The department proudly congratulates classics undergrad Zachary Squire '08 on being named 2008 valedictorian. Read the Princeton News interview with Zachary here.

Chemical Engineering undergrad James Morrison '08 will deliver the Latin address at this year's Commencement ceremony.

Our Spring 2008 Newsletter has been published.

January 2008

The Department congratulates Harvey Lederman '08 on winning a Keasbey Scholarship to study Classics at the post-graduate level in Cambridge University for two years. Princeton is eligible to nominate students for the Keasbey only once every three years, and we are delighted that one of our majors has won this valuable award.

We are proud to congratulate Emerita Professor Elaine Fantham on receiving the Distinguished Service Award of the American Philological Association at the APA's annual convention in Chicago, on January 5, 2008. This award is not given every year, and goes to members of the APA who have shown outstanding achievement in scholarship and teaching, together with distinguished service to the APA. Elaine Fantham was President of the APA in 2004, and Chair of our Department from 1989-1992. She is the author of many articles and books which are always at the elbow of students of the literature and culture of Rome. We are delighted to see her outstanding accomplishments recognised in this way.

December 2007

The University of California Press has published Michael Flower's The Seer in Ancient Greece.

Marc Domingo Gygax appears in this Princeton Weekly Bulletin article on Freshman Seminars.

October 2007

Classics Grad Kellam Conover is featured in this New York Times article on Education. (Registration may be required.)

June 2007

The Department congratulates graduating senior Maya Maskarinec on being chosen to deliver the Latin Salutatorian's Address on behalf of the Class of 2007.

Denis Feeney's new book, Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History, has been published by University of California Press.

Froma Zeitlin's seminal influence in the field has inspired Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature, a collective volume edited in her honor by Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill, Helene Foley, and Jas Elsner, and published this month by Oxford University Press.

May 2007

Classics presents this years recipients of Phi Beta Kappa. Congratulations to each of you!

• Jacobine Kung-Hau Dru
• Bridget Reilly Durkin
• Emmitte Hamilton Griggs, Jr.
• Marya Faith Grupsmith
• Kassandra Aurora Jackson
• Maya Maskarinec
• Jonathan A. Pomeranz
• Nathan John Ristuccia
• Clarke McIntyre Smith

The Department of Classics takes great pleasure in announcing the 2007 Stinnecke Prize winner was William P. Sullivan '09. Congratulations Will!

The Classics Department is proud to announce that Bob Kaster received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. Read more here.

Classics Senior Maya Maskarinec has been named Latin salutatorian for the Commencement on June 5, 2007, and will deliver the customary Latin address on behalf of the Class of 07. Maya was awarded the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence in 2005 and the Classics Department's Charles A. Steele Prize in 2006. She has also won a Fulbright Grant and will be spending the next academic year in Vienna. Read more here.

The Classics Department congratulates Luca Grillo on winning one of only five Graduate Teaching Awards bestowed by the University in the 2006-7, for his extraordinary work as an assistant in instruction in four of the department's courses over the last two academic years.

April 2007

The Classics Department heartily congratulates its graduate students who have won the following coveted fellowships:

• Kellam Conover -- the Jacobus Fellowship in Humanities (Princeton University)
• Pauline LeVen -- the Sibley Fellowship of ΦΒΚ
• Jason Pedicone -- a Javits Fellowship
• Susan Satterfield -- a Harvey Fellowship

March 2007

The Classics Department heartily congratulates its graduate student job-seekers on their success in receiving the following tenure-track appointments:

• Eugenia Lao -- Holy Cross
• Jon Master -- Emory
• Nate Powers -- SUNY-Albany (philosophy)
• Rob Sobak -- Bowdoin

February 2007

The Princeton Weekly Bulletin profiles Associate Professor of Classics Joshua Katz in the classroom. Read more here.

September 2006

Classics Major Zachary Squire was honored at yesterday's opening ceremonies. Read more here.

June 2006

The 2006 Atkins Prize winners have been announced.

May 2006

Classics has published their first department newsletter. The Spring 2006 edition is available in PDF format (785kb) for downloading. If you would like to receive a printed version, please send us your mailing address via email and we will be happy to send you a copy.

December 2005

Christian Wildberg, Professor of Classics, has been named master of Forbes College. For details, see Princeton's press release.

The Classics Department is proud to announce the launch of the "Princeton Stanford Working Papers in Classics" web site. Be sure to visit:

http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc

April 2005

The Department of Classics is very proud to announce that Ronnie Hanley, manager in the Department of Classics, has been chosen as a recipient of Princeton University's 2004 President's Achievement Award. Ronnie, along with four other colleagues, were honored by President Tilghman at the annual Service Recognition Luncheon on March 2, 2005.

The faculty, staff, and students in the Department of Classics salute Ronnie for this well deserved achievement, for her twenty years of devoted work with the University, and for her continued dedication to us all.

For a detailed article, please visit:

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0321/7a.shtml