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Graduate Student Conference Call for Abstracts

Published: March 17, 2022

The graduate students of the Department of Classics at UCLA are happy to share a call for papers for the forthcoming graduate conference, “Knowing & Knowing Nothing: Learning, Teaching, and Apprenticeship…

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UCLA Classics Student textbook fund

Published: February 8, 2022

With the money received from the Society for Classical Studies for Richard Ellis’ Teaching award, the Classics Department has instituted a new Textbook fund. This fund will assist students in…

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The Classics Department Welcomes Baby Julian!

Published: August 31, 2021

The department is pleased to announce that parents, Prof. Sarah Beckmann and Prof. Sam Beckelhymer, welcomed baby Julian David Beckelhymer on August 20th, 2021! Julian, who also goes by Jude,…

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Professor Ella Haselswerdt Awarded AJP Prize

Published: September 9, 2020

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…

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Congratulations, Andre Matlock and Alex Press!

Published: August 5, 2020

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…

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Welcome, Assistant Professor Ella Haselswerdt

Published: August 3, 2020

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…

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