Prof. Emeritus Lawrence Richardson, jr wins AIA Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement
The award will be presented on January 6 at the Annual Meeting of the AIA in Philadelphia. Prof. Tolly Boatwright will accept on behalf of Prof. Richardson.
The Gold Medal is an annual award, "in recognition of a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to archaeology through his or her fieldwork, publications, and/or teaching". The medal and a citation will document Prof. Richardson's achievements. A colloquium in honor of Prof. Richardson has been organized for that morning, with Duke alum Prof. Christopher Parslow and Prof. Boatwright, among others, presenting papers.
ACLS Fellowship Award
Feb. 6. Recent Classical Studies PhD Alex Loney has won the New Faculty Fellowship Award from the American Council of Learned Societies
Classical Studies Graduate Students win big in Fellowship competitions
December 2012 The following Classical Studies Graduate Students have won competitive fellowships at Duke for 2012-2013:
- Robinson, Clifford Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Fellowship
- Vahl, Jessica International Research Travel Fellowship
- Fairhurst, Joanne Duke Library archives internship Fellowship
- Langenfeld, Kathryn Ann Pre-Dissertation and Dissertation Research
- Fairhurst, Joanne Pre-Dissertation and Dissertation Research
- Vahl, Jessica Pre-Dissertation and Dissertation Research
- Dudley, Robert Summer Research Fellowship
- Fairhurst, Joanne Summer Research Fellowship
- Graham, Theodore Summer Research Fellowship
- Griffin, Daniel Summer Research Fellowship
- Hoffman, Jesse Summer Research Fellowship
- Vahl, Jessica Summer Research Fellowship
February 2012 - Joseph Miller has won an external award for the final year of his dissertation work: the Fay Horton Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
New Site for Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Duke University Libraries has just rolled out the new Open Journal Systems installation of GRBS. The look is plain, for now at least, but the functionality is great, and submissions are already coming in through the new and much improved platform.
Senior Thesis Symposium, 2011
Our majors Graduating with Distinction met for a symposium celebrating the completion of their Senior Theses. Each of our five ST writers gave a short presentation on her or his work, then answered questions from the audience. This was a great chance to learn about the questions our most ambitious undergraduates had posed to antiquity--such as, were there banks in antiquity, and if so, how did they function?--and about the fascinating answers they found!
Our Senior Thesis writers and their thesis titles:
Susan Foster, Ancient Social Networks: the Effects of Friendship and Business Relationships on the Athenian Law Courts
Leigh Carter Herbert, Credit and Crisis in Ancient Rome
Amol Sura, Rhetoric, Tradition, and Socio-Cultural Context in Soranus’ Gynecology
Andrew Tharler, Finding the Founder: (Re)Inventing Aeneas
Paul Tran, Scipio and Hannibal in the Second Punic War: Archetypes of Generalship within Livy and Vegetius
Classical Studies on television - Mary T. Boatwright
January 2011
On January 25 at 5:00, the National Geographic Channel aired, "When Rome Ruled: Ancient Superpower" featuring ClSt professor Tolly Boatwright. For the relevant clip see this Duke on Demand video:
http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/25810/tolly-boatwright-on-when-rome-
And for an overview of the program see:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/when-rome-ruled/4725/Overview
Classical Studies in the news
An article in the January 2011 Duke Magazine investigates the state of the Humanities, and highlights comments by ClSt professors Peter Burian and William Johnson
Renovation Project by Robert J. Bliwise-January/February 2011
Joshua Sosin wins $958,000 Mellon Grant
December 2010
ClSt professor Josh Sosin, as PI (with Deborah Jakubs), has been awarded a grant of $958,000 by the A. W. Mellon Foundation in support of the completion of an online editing environment for three integrated databases of papyri, "Integrating Digital Papyrology," the continuation of an important international collaborative project. Josh will give a talk on this project in the ClSt brown-bag colloquium series in February.
Homeric Rhapsodies
December 2010
Undergraduate majors Kathryn Hutchins, Michael Betts, Tara McKenna, and Darius Brown recently met for some Homeric rhapsodizing, in which they recited verses from Homer's Iliad. The group also experimented with setting the verses to song, making use of an interesting inscription from Epidaurus that gives a melody line for hexameter recitation. (Picture below: part of William Jonnson's Greek 103 class.)
Classical Studies in the news:
Check out this digest of an article in the News & Observer, Nov. 17, 2010, on the latest classical antiquities exhbition at the Nasher -- put together by our Classic students under the supervision of Carla Antonaccio.
