2018-09-05
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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.
2017-12-14 - Craig Williams is one of six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2018. It is the third year in the last four that the Urbana campus has garnered more fellowship awards than any other single institution. Williams: “Orpheus Crosses the Atlantic: Native...- 2017-11-16 - Classics Undergraduate Travel Award The Classics Department is offering a travel award to be used between June 2018 and June 2019. The award amount of $2000.00 may be used for any program that focuses on the Greek or Latin language, including pedagogy and/or oral Greek/Latin; Greek or Roman literature, history, or culture; or Greek or Roman art, architecture and archaeology, including...
2017-11-01 - Grand Challenge 128 course of Prof. Clara Bosak-Schroeder ("Sustainability in Fiction") was featured in the Daily Illini . “In the classroom, we read ancient texts and we write about them, but students also compare what they’re learning about in the...
2017-10-18 - BAT Classics alumnus James Stark (2015) receives the Illinois Latin Teacher of the Year (MMXVII) award from the Illinois Classical Conference on October 7, 2017 for his amazing transformation of the Latin program and his students at Collinsville High School, IL. James was also recently featured in the local news...
2017-07-01 - "The summer of 2017 I participated in the Poggio Civitate excavation. The 6-week program gave varied training in both field work and preservation work in the lab. I participated mostly in the lab work where we received training from a member of the conservation team from the British Museum. It was extremely rewarding to be able to follow the process of archeology from the discovery of an artifact...