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PROFESSOR MARK FULLERTON
HA2301 is concerned with the study of the Classical past through its material remains.
The term Classical here refers to the Greek and Roman cultures of the…
The Department congratulates Professor Gregory Jusdanis on receiving the 2025 International Hellenic Prize for Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine…
Frank T. Coulson appointed series editor of TEAMS Secular Commentary series at the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
The Secular Commentary Series provides modern English…
Classical Reception: Harriet Fertik on Returning to Antiquity | Voices of Excellence
Harriet Fertik, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, discusses her research in classical…
Professor Gregory Jusdanis' book, Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography was recently reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, as well as several other journals and magazines including…
Congratulations to Professor Harriet Fertik on being awarded the 2024-25 ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award. The Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in…
“Students who earn degrees in liberal arts and humanities may actually have an advantage in the job market over those who specialize in STEM-based programming,” Read the full article here.
Sarah Iles Johnston, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Religion, who is an expert on ancient Greek religions and myths, is part of a team of scholars helping to better…
The Moralized Ovid
By Pierre Bersuire
Edited and translated by Frank T. Coulson and Justin Haynes
An influential medieval allegorical…
Brandon Harris, a graduating senior in Classics, has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship from the Arts and Sciences Honors Committee for his Undergraduate Research…
We are accepting applications for the Department of Classics scholarships.
All Scholarship and Awards applications are due April 1, 2023.
To apply, visit the online Scholarships and…
Georgios Anagnostou has been awarded as a recipient of the Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies for his work on Redirecting Ethnic Singularity:…
Adrian Walls, a double major in Classics and Political Science/Law, received first place in the Human Experience category at the 27th annual Richard J. and Martha D. Denman…
We are accepting applications for the Department of Classics merit based undergraduate scholarships.
Rebecca Lucile Cornetet Scholarship
Merit-based scholarship…
Marjorie Curry Woods, professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin, has generously donated her incomparable collection of microfilms and notes on medieval and renaissance manuscripts…
The OSU Modern Greek Program mourns the loss of alumna Penelope Foudeas. Please visit Modern Greek at Ohio State | News and resources from the OSU Modern Greek Program for additional details.
Applications are now open for The Department of Classics Scholarships and Awards. Applications are due by April 1, 2020. For more information, visit the Scholarships and Awards webpage.
In…
Carman Romano has been accepted into the Lincoln College Summer Course in Greek Palaeography at Lincoln College, Oxford. The school is quite competitive, so please congratulate Carman on this…
Frank T. Coulson will deliver this year's Endowed Lecture on the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. The title of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Online Gaming and Ancient Studies Intersect
Video game development executive Jack Emmert, an alumnus of the OSU graduate program in Classics (Greek & Latin), will speak to the OSU…
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…
Featured in ASCENT, News from the College of Arts and Sciences, Spring 2017
Speaking the Same Language
Litsa Kozyris (BS, elementary education, 1985; MA,…
Frank Coulson, professor of Classics and the Director of Palaeography for the OSU Epigraphy Center, has been elected a member of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine, which is an…
"Hype For Homer" is a project that translates the poetry of Homer and other ancient Greeks into performance pieces for new general-audiences through the use of contemporary music and idiom. As of…
Georgios Anagnostou, Professor in Modern Greek and Classics, was awarded a Greek Diaspora Fellowship to travel to Greece to work with an interdisciplinary team at the Aristotle University of…
Professor Tom Hawkins has been awarded an Ohio State Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, which supports and rewards innovation in both concept and execution in undergraduate…
Professor Richard Fletcher has been awarded funds from the Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Arts Community Outreach Grant to work with K-12 children and bring them in for activities and…
Members of the Department of Classics and scholars of the ancient world more generally have won ample support for four projects in the most recent round of the University's Discovery…
Katie Caliva, winner of the Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth, was awarded $2300 to conduct research on her project, "Speech Acts and Embedded Narrative…
Chris Erlinger successfully defended his dissertation, "How Eunuchs Work: Eunuchs as a Narrative Device in Greek and Roman Literature" on Thursday, July 14. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Carolina…
Congratulations to Classics graduate student William Little who received a Nicholas Howe Grant from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to fund his enrollment in the Greek…
Congratulations to this year's winners of the Department of Classics Scholarships and Awards!
Undergraduate Award of ExcellenceGrace Rhodes for her paper, "Theseus and…
Quinn Griffin successfully defended her dissertation, "Embodying Diotima: Classical Exempla and the Learned Lady” on Tuesday, April 12. Frank Coulson served as her advisor and Richard Fletcher and…
Aaron Palmore successfully defended his dissertation, "Desire Interrupted: Erotics, Politics, and Poetics in Horace, Odes 4” on Monday, April 11. William Batstone served as his advisor…
Carol U. Merriam, PhD ’93, has been appointed to a five year term as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Carol defended her…
Classics alumna, Hanne Eisenfeld, has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston College. Hanne will start her new position this coming Autumn. Hanne…
Classics graduate student, Quinn Griffin, has been offered and has accepted a tenure-track position in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Quinn will defend her dissertation this Spring …
Classics alumnus, Samuel Flores, has been offered and has accepted a tenure-track position in Classics at the College of Charleston. Sam defended his dissertation, "The Roles of Solon in Plato’s …
Alumnus, Professor John Gruber-Miller, Cornell College, (PhD Summer 1987, Advisor: the late Charles Babcock, Committee: the late Carl Schlam, June Allison) has been elected to a two-year term as…
Kelly Taylor has been selected to be a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the 2016 Humanities Without Walls Consortium this summer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne. This program is funded by…
It is with great pleasure that we announce a major fundraising initiative to endow a Chair in Modern Greek Studies at The Ohio State University, a position that will ensure the research and…
Carolina López-Ruiz has won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2016-2017. Her project "Phoenician Networks in the Mediterranean from Greece to Iberia, ca. 700-500 BCE", was…
In addition to teaching Latin and history at The Wheeler School in Providence, RI, Kelly Dugan (M.A., Summer 2015, Advisor: Fletcher, López-Ruiz) has recently been hired as a Writing Coach in the…
Nicholas Martin has recently been honored as the 2015 Texas Foreign Language Association Latin Teacher of the Year. Mr. Martin received his M.A. in Classics in 1997, his thesis entitled, "Sozomeno…
The Modern Greek Program
at The Ohio State University
announces
The Phaedon John Kozyris and Litsa Kozyris Travel Award
This $50,000 endowed fund provides financial…
In 1938, the Department of Classics purchased a medium-sized collection of ancient coins, which have now been moved to the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies. They are in the…
The Department of Classics is pleased to announce the new track within the Classics program on Classical Antiquity and the Near East (CANE) dedicated to the study of the Classical world and the…
Adam Rappold successfully defended his dissertation, "The Shadow of the Polis: A Synchronic and Diachronic Examination of the Skira Festival in Athens", on Thursday, July 9, 2015. Sarah Johnston…
We are very pleased to announce that Corey Hackworth has accepted a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship in Classics at the University of Iowa. Dr. Hackworth successfully defended his PhD…
Michael Jean successfully defended his dissertation, "Cursus Fastorum: a study and edition of Pomponius Laetus's glosses to Ovid's Fasti" on Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Frank Coulson…
Professor Gregory Jusdanis made an appearance…
Marion Kruse successfully defended his dissertation, "The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian" on Friday, May 22, 2015. Anthony Kaldellis served as his advisor and Benjamin Acosta…
Undergraduate
Undergraduate Award of Excellence ($300.00): Laura Tringali for her paper, "The Project of Comparison: Pauline and Post-Pauline Traditions" …
A new field of study, Medical Humanities, is emerging at select American universities and the Department of Classics at Ohio State is helping to lead the way. Assistant Professor Julia Nelson…
Joseph Danielewicz successfully defended his dissertation, "Parody as Pedagogy in Plato's Dialogues" on Friday, April 10, 2015. Professor Heiden served as his advisor and Professors Tom Hawkins…
Dear Friends,
It is with great, great pleasure that I can now announce to you The Phaedon John Kozyris and Litsa Kozyris Award for travel and research in Greece and Grecian Lands. The…
Laura Tringali, a double minor in Classics and Nonprofit Studies, while majoring in Psychology, recently showcased her successful undergraduate Honors Thesis in Classics at the…
We are very pleased to announce that Chelsea Bowden (M.A. 2012 dirs. Graf and Hahm) has received a 3-year, renewable position as Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Kansas…
We are delighted to announce that Craig Jendza has received a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Greek Literature and the Classical Tradition in the Department of Classics at the…
OSU Department of Classics alumnus (MA 1983, PhD 1989) Timothy F. Winters (Austin Peay State University) was a recipient of the SCS Collegiate Teaching Award this year.
There are few people in this world who are as knowledgeable about antiquity and care about passing on that knowledge as Tim Gregory. I'm honored to assist him in his very important work and to…
Laura Tringali, a double minor in Classics and Nonprofit Studies, while majoring in Psychology, will graduate…
Corey Hackworth successfully defended his dissertation, "Reading Athenaios' Epigraphical Hymn to Apollo: Critical Edition and Commentaries" on Monday, December 8, 2014. Professor Fritz Graf served…
For their final projects, students in Professor Anna McCullough's Classical Ohio course (Classics 3100) have constructed exhibits for a pop-up museum, to be displayed in University Hall 414. Exhibits…
Joseph Lipp successfully defended his dissertation, "Imagining the World's End in Ancient Greece" on Monday, October 27, 2014. Professor López-Ruiz served as his advisor and Professors Bert…
It gives us great pleasure to announce that Richard Fletcher has been selected as one of the inaugural winners of the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards in the Division of…
Mark Wright successfully defended his dissertation, "The Liber Amicus: Studies in Horace Sermones I" on Friday, July 11, 2014. Professor Batstone served as his advisor and Professors…
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Ancient Mediterranean Religions is very pleased to announce the establishment of the Fritz Graf Fund. The Graf Fund, which was endowed by one of…
Luke Gorton successfully defended his dissertation, "Through the Grapevine: Tracing the Origins of Wine" on Monday, March 24, 2014. Professor Carolina López-Ruiz served as his advisor and…
Ph.D. Sam Flores (Spring 2013, dir. Bruce Heiden) has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Former Department of Classics graduate student (1993), Carol U. Merriam, has been promoted to full professor at Brock University. She is also now associate dean for research and graduate studies…
Following on the screening at Ohio State of the documentary “Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan city 1900-1922” by Maria Iliou, the OSU Modern Greek Program announces an essay competition…
Sarah Iles Johnston, Arts and Humanities Distinguished…
Undergraduate student Petra M. Creamer’s research paper, “Isis over Rome: An Examination of the Popularity of the Isaic Cult in the Roman Empire” has been selected from a national essay contest to…
Frank Santoro has written an article for The Comics Journal about his visit to OSU, part of which was to speak to the Undergraduate Classics Club about his graphic novel Pompeii…
Hanne Eisenfeld has been awarded an Open Scholarship to attend the Summer Session of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. These fellowships, of which only five are awarded each year…
Fritz Graf was elected to the Goodwin Award of Merit Committee of the American Philological Association, with a term to run from January 2014 through January 2017. The Goodwin Award is the only honor…
Through a generous gift of her estate, Virginia Brown established the…
Penn State short-listed two OSU alums for their tenure track position, and Anna Peterson (PhD 2010 under Professor Tom Hawkins) has now accepted the position. Congratulations, Anna!
Professor Gregory Jusdanis, Director of the Modern Greek Program, has been awarded an ASCSA National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for year 2014-15. Prof. Jusdanis will spend Spring…
Congratulations to Kelly Dugan and Brandon Bourgeois who have been admitted to the Lincoln College Seminar in Greek Palaeography to be held at Lincoln College, Oxford in July 2014.
Katie…
Rocki Wentzel was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at Augustana College. Rocki earned her Ph.D. from Ohio State in 2008. Her dissertation, directed by Prof. Will…
Congratulations to Emily Bonk, double major in Classics and Mathematics, on graduating in December with the B.A. With Honors Research Distinction in Classics. Her honors thesis is entitled, …
Agapi Stefanidou successfully defended her dissertation, "The reception of epic kleos in Greek tragedy" on Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Professor Tom Hawkins served as her advisor and Professors…
J. Albert Harrill, Professor, Classics, received a returning Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to carry out research at the Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany,…
Dr. Christopher Brown was recently mentioned in an UWeekly article on the Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP).
“The cool thing about STEP is you have so many different…
The Classics Club recently visited to the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, and everyone had a great time! Wendy Watkins had a great selection of squeezes out for us to look at,…
Craig Jendza successfully defended his dissertation, "Euripidean Paracomedy" on Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Professor Tom Hawkins served as his advisor and Professors Fritz Graf and Dana Munteau…
Kelly Dugan gave a paper on “A Generative Approach to Homeric Enjambment: Benefits and Drawbacks” at the 10th Annual MLK Day Linguistics Symposium at OSU (January 20, 2013).
Hanne Eisenfeld…
During Summer 2013, the following students graduated with a Ph.D. from our Department:
Gabriel Fuchs on "Renaissance receptions of Ovid's Tristia" (Advisor…
Michael Jean has been awarded a Mellon Fellowship at the Vatican Film Library in St. Louis to research Vatican manuscripts of Pomponio Leto's commentary on Ovid's Fasti. Leto was an important…
The Department of Classics is thrilled to announce this year’s scholarships and awards made available by its generous supporters.
Undergraduate StudentsThe Undergraduate Award of…
Two of our Classics majors participated in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on March 28, 2013.
The Denman Undergraduate Research Forum was created in 1996 and is a cooperative effort…
Professor Charles Babcock came to Ohio State in 1966; serving as chair of the Department of Classics and first dean of the College of Humanities. He received numerous awards from…
The Department of Classics extends a warm welcome to J. Albert ‘Bert’ Harrill, who joins our ranks as our new full professor of Greek and Latin this Autumn Semester. Professor Harrill is the…
Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Ph.D. (M.A. The Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor in Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Mehmet-Ali received his Ph.D. from…
Yannis Tzifopoulos, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University, 1991) Associate Professor of Greek Literature and Epigraphy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki just published Paradise Earned: The…
Timothy F. Winters, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University 1989), Professor of Classics, Austin Peay State University, recently received the Clarksville Chamber of Commerce their Distinguished Community…
Sam Flores has been named a Gondwe Fellow at Gettysburg College for acadmeic year 2012-2013.
Article: Rare Ancient Statue Depicts Topless Female Gladiator
Professor Anna McCullough was recently interviewed for an article by Live Science on a possible new female gladiator statue. The…