Professor Antony Augoustakis is one of the five professors named University Scholars for Urbana-Champaign campus. A professor and head of Classics, Augoustakis researches the cultural poetics and the sociopolitics of Flavian poetry. His “accomplishments in the areas of research, teaching and service, and his national and international reputation are outstanding,” his nominator wrote. “His publication record is among the most impressive I have seen in my 30-year career at Illinois for a faculty member at this stage of his or her career.  This remarkable productivity shows no sign of slowing down.”