Professor Jennifer Rea gave a talk in Turin, Italy on “Roman Fortuna and the American Dream in TV’s Supernatural,” at the V Congresso Internazionale Visiones de lo Fantástico.
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The Classics Annual Awards Ceremony was help April 14, 2022. Click to view the ceremony!
He has been selected as one of the recipients for the Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2021-2022. Shown here with his MA thesis advisor, Dr. Flora Iff-Noel.
Dr. Mary Ann Eaverly recently gave a lecture at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens on “Athena’s Horsemen: Equestrian Dedications from the Athenian Acropolis.”
Dr. Eaverly is pictured here with Dr. Brendan Burke (UF BA 90) who is now a professor at the University of Victoria and the 2021-2024 Andrew Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
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Congratulations to Dr. Victoria Pagán’s on the publication of her new book, Tacitus’ Wonders: Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome published by Bloomsbury.
The organizing committee of the 5th annual University of Florida Classics Graduate Student Symposium is pleased to announce their conference “At the Margins: New Perspectives on the Ancient Mediterranean” taking place virtually and in person on Saturday, February 26, 2022. Pre-registration is required for both virtual and in-person attendance. Registration, a schedule, and all details […]
Congratulations to Dr. Flora Iff-Noël on the publication of her first book, Silves latines 2022-2023: Catulle, Poésies, Tite-Live, Histoire romaine V in the Clefs Concours series published by Atlande Press.
Fall 2021
Organiser: Ifigeneia Giannadaki, University of Florida
Programme
(Virtual event, via Zoom)
Congratulations to Dr. Mary Ann Eaverly, Professor of Classics, who has been designated as an ‘Eos Luminary‘ by Eos Africana for her scholarly achievements, which include groundbreaking scholarship oncolor and gender in Ancient Greece and Egypt. Eos Africana is a scholarly society that examines Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece.
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Congratulations to our newest MA graduate student, Kariola Mustafa, who has been recognized by the US Embassy in Nigeria as the student of the week!
Congratulations to Classical Studies majors Toni Shae Ferguson and Maria Laura Montero, who have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Election to Phi Beta Kappa is one of the highest academic honors that a student can receive. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest (est. 1776) academic honor society in America. Only one in ten institutions (colleges […]
Congratulations to Alberto De Simoni on winning a UF Graduate Student Teaching Award for the second time. Alberto first won a GSTA in 2017.
Congratulations to Kostas Kapparis, Director of the Center for Greek Studies, on the publication of his work Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (Edinburgh University Press 2021). This new book (Kostas’ ninth) is the latest of an impressive series of studies on Greek culture and civilization to see the light at the Center for […]
Distance Learning program alumna Jennifer K. Nelson’s edition of Gian Vittorio Rossi’s Eudemiae Libri Decem is forthcoming in the NeoLatina series of Narr Francke Attempo Verlag (Tubingen). Congratulations, Jennifer!
Congratulations to Cassas Chair in Greek Studies Ifigeneia Giannadaki on the publication of her new book A Commentary on the Speech of Demosthenes, Against Androtion (Oxford University Press 2020)
Archaeologists examine the physical remains of humankind to answer questions animated by our present. The material record helps us understand the production of inequality, the representation of power, and the targeted discrimination of communities. Archaeological research that describes the lives of everyday people also gives voice to those who lack privileged representation in the dominant […]
The Society for Classical Studies condemns the relentless horror of police brutality and murder of black men, women, and children, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and Rodney King, to name just a few of the victims. Brutality […]
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