Congratulations to Dr Elke Nash, who received her BA in Classical Civilization from UCLA in 2007 and her Post-baccalaureate certificate in Classics from our department in 2008-10. She received her…
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Professor Alex Purves receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Published: April 7, 2023We are happy and excited to announce that Professor and Chair of the Department Alex Purves has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2023! Alex Purves studies ancient Greek poetry…
Read MoreProfessors Sarah Morris and John Papadopoulos deliver seminars at the Scuola Normale in Pisa
Published: April 7, 2023On April 13-14 John Papadopoulous and Sarah Morris will deliver seminars at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa on the topics of, respectively, Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis…
Read MoreDr. Kelly Nguyen joins UCLA Classics
Published: April 5, 2023We are delighted to report that Kelly Nguyen has recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA, beginning July 1, 2023. Dr. Nguyen is currently an IDEAL…
Read MoreKathryn Morgan responds to recent book on Plato’s Charmides
Published: April 5, 2023Professor Kathryn Morgan will be speaking on April 8 at a Book Symposium Panel at the 2023 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco, offering a reaction to…
Read MoreProf Zenios co-curates exhibition on Greek poet Dionysios Solomos in Athens
Published: March 28, 2023Dr. Simos Zenios has co-curated the exhibition “Dionysios Solomos… two flames… Manolis Charos,” which is opening on March 28th at the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies…
Read MoreSarah Morris | The North Aegean from Homer to Philip II: Migration and Relocation at Methone from Prehistory to 1923
Published: March 27, 2023Join Professor Sarah Morris as she examines the archaeological record for the diachronic history of an ancient site in “The North Aegean from Homer to Philip II: Migration and Relocation…
Read MoreSix UCLA PhD students present/host at CAMWS
Published: March 24, 2023The following graduate students will be delivering papers at this year’s annual Classical Association of the Middle West and South Meeting, in Provo, Utah on March 29-April 1. Patrick Callahan,…
Read MorePhD student Mary Anastasi and Prof Hannah Čulík-Baird present at USC Conference
Published: March 22, 2023Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird will present the Keynote Address at the upcoming USC Classics Graduate Student Conference, with a paper entitled “Sympathy for Fragments?.” PhD student Mary Anastasi will also deliver a…
Read MoreGreg Woolf gives keynote at colloquium in Bern on Roman Provincial Societies
Published: March 20, 2023Professor Greg Woolf spoke on ‘Heterarchy and the organization of provincial space in Roman Gaul’ at a colloquium La société provinciale romaine en question organized by Archéologie Romaine en Suisse…
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