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We are delighted to announce that Professor Ella Haselswerdt has been awarded the AJP Best Article Prize for 2019, for her article “Sound and the Sublime in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation.” Congratulations, Ella!

We are delighted to welcome Ella Haselswerdt to the Classics Department at UCLA! Ella’s specialization in Greek tragedy extends from her current book project on chorality and trauma to the reception of antiquity in the work of Ann Carson, Brazilian performance, and queer contemporary art. Ella received her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence…

Congratulations to Andre Matlock and Alex Press, who both filed their dissertations in Spring and Summer respectively.  Andre’s dissertation, “Time and Experience in Cicero’s Ethical Dialogues,” was jointly supervised by Professors David Blank and Francesca Martelli. This Spring he also published his first article, “Relationality, Fidelity, and the Event in Sappho,” in Classical Antiquity (39.1) in…

The Society for Classical Studies has issued a statement condemning police brutality and racism, as well as the  misappropriation of Classics by white supremacist and nationalist groups. The Faculty and Graduate Students of the Department of Classics affirm their support  of this statement.  We join our colleagues across the nation and throughout the profession in…

Congratulations to the Class of 2020 on behalf of the Classics Department! You did it! On behalf of the entire Department of Classics, we want to congratulate you on all your hard work during your time at UCLA. Although we wish we could be celebrating in person, we wanted to celebrate your incredible achievements and…

Congratulations, Class of 2020! Please see a special video from Professor Gurval celebrating your tremendous accomplishments!

Many congratulations to Classics Undergraduate student Dido Wang, who has just been awarded the 2020 Peter Rotter Undergraduate Essay Award. Dido’s paper (“Descending god, ascending man: A study of the Mycenaean Gold Masks from Grave Circle A”) explores the possible purpose of the famous gold masks from Bronze-Age Mycenae. She argues that the funerary masks…

The Department of Classics is delighted to report that Professor Robert Gurval has been honored with the Eugen Weber Honors Collegium Faculty Award in celebration of his outstanding contribution to teaching in the Honors Collegium at UCLA. He will be presented with the award at the upcoming Honors Programs Rose Gilbert Reception. This is by no…

Congratulations to Celsiana Warwick (PhD 2018) who has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa and John Tennant (PhD expected Spring 2019) who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University Department of Classics. Continued congratulations to Hans Bork (PhD…