2018-11-28
- Congratulations to Brett Kaufman on the publication of the edited volume Metallurgical Design and Industry: Prehistory to the Space Age (Springer 2018).
This edited volume examines metallurgical technologies and their place in society throughout the centuries. The authors discuss metal alloys and the use of...
- 2018-11-13 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder is one of the six assistant professors who have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research. Click here for more information.
- 2018-10-18 - Check out the Modern Greek Program tab under Academics with the Modern Greek class offerings for Spring 2019.
2018-10-11 - ICS 43.1 (2018) is now available on JSTOR and ProjectMuse. Click here for the Table of Contents.- 2018-10-02 - This past summer found me halfway across the world, living out the culture of Italy in Rome. I spent six weeks working with The Paideia Institute, a non-profit that is dominating educational service work in the classics field. Despite its prominence, however, I had never heard of the institute before the spring semester. Fortunately, a member...
- 2018-09-05 - Brett Kaufman, Assistant Professor in the Department of the Classics, was awarded a grant by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under their International Cooperation and Exchange Project. The award is for his project entitled "Remote Sensing Identification and Modern Health Risks of Ancient Metallurgical Pollution," which endeavors to develop a global applied...
2018-05-01 - PhD alumnus Ryan McConnell is featured on the Grad College blog "Where are they now?" (https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/6397/642490). Many congratulations to Ryan on his many accomplishments including the recent publication of his book "Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt" by the University of Michigan Press (...
2018-04-30 - New Book Epic Heroes on Screen, edited by Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci (Union College), Edinburgh University Press, 2018. This is the first collection to look at the most recent manifestations of the ancient hero on screen. It brings together an array of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of ancient world heroes and...- 2018-03-20 - CLCV 220 North Africa from Prehistory to the Arab Spring will be offered Fall 2018. Course will be taught by the Department of the Classics new assistant professor, Brett Kaufman.
2018-03-19 - The Department of the Classics is pleased to welcome assistant professor Brett Kaufman, who will be joining the department on August 16, 2018. Professor Kaufman holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in UCLA (2014). He has held a Postdoctoral appointment at the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and is currently Assistant...- 2018-01-31 - Professor Angeliki Tzanetou has been awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Award in Humanities Teaching Release Time for AY 2018-2019.
- 2018-01-31 - Classics undergraduate Sneha Adusumilli (B.A. May 2018) was awarded the prestigious Society for Classical Studies Minority Scholarship to study abroad this summer in Italy at an archaeological dig.
2018-01-30 - Professor Antony Augoustakis and Illinois PhD alumna, Barbara Wallach (Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia) co-edited the late Professor Luitpold Wallach’s edition of the Libri Carolini. The Libri Carolini was composed around 790 and responds to the controversy regarding icon worship in the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires. Professor...- 2018-01-08 - Professor Ariana Traill has been named the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar in LAS for three years beginning in January 2018 for her outstanding achievements in research and teaching.