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Recognizing Excellence at Ohio State
June 18, 2019

Associate Professor Julia Nelson Hawkins Wins a Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award

Associate Professor Julia Nelson Hawkins has been awarded the 2018 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, which supports and rewards innovation in both concept and execution in…
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Headshot of Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
April 2, 2018

2018-2019 Schlam Lecturer Chosen

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer has accepted the invitation to be our Schlam speaker for 2018-2019.  The University of Chicago professor is the author of Actors in the Audience, and has recently been doing some…
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Graduate student Marcus Ziemann with his dog
March 22, 2018

Classics Graduate Student Wins Iles Award for the Study of Myth

Marcus Ziemann has won this year's Iles Award for the Study of Myth from the Center for the Study of Religion.  The Award will fund Marcus' work on the connection between Assyrian literature and the …
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Profile photo of poet Rita Dove
March 21, 2018

Rita Dove Brings Adaptation of Oedipus to OSU

Featured in the "News & Events" section of the College of Arts and Sciences.Tom Hawkins, associate professor of classics, was looking for a modern interpretation of Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” to…
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Parthenon with OSU Classics banner placed over image
December 12, 2017

Latin Student Wins Study Abroad Scholarship

Faith Rush, a student in classics graduate student Colleen Kron’s Latin 1103 course, has won a Keith and Linda Monda International Experience Scholarship. The scholarship will allow Faith to…
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Parthenon with OSU Classics Banner
November 22, 2017

Classics Undergraduate Wins Research Scholarship

The news has just come in from Lindsey Chamberlain, Assistant Dean and Director of the ASC Honors Program, that our own Andy Hosler has won an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Spring 2018. This…
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Squeeze of a treaty between Athens and Samos, with Athena and Hera shaking hands.
September 6, 2017

More Squeezes: the Avery-McDonald Collection

 This May, the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies received the gift of a considerable collection of squeezes of Greek inscriptions. The collection came to us thanks to Professor John…
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Picture of Video Game Development Exceutive Jack Emmert
August 7, 2017

Video Game Executive and Classics Alumnus to Speak at Coffee Hour

Online Gaming and Ancient Studies IntersectVideo game development executive Jack Emmert, an alumnus of the OSU graduate program in Classics (Greek & Latin), will speak to the OSU community about…
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Portrait of the new Classics Department chairperson
June 20, 2017

Anthony Kaldellis Appointed Classics Chair

Anthony Kaldellis has been appointed to serve as chair of the department of Classics, beginning on July 1, 2017. Kaldellis earned his PhD in history at the University of Michigan in 2001 and joined…