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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…

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 Professor of Religion and Professor of Classics, has just been elected president of the American Society for the Study of Religion (ASSR).…

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…

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…

Through a generous gift of her estate, Virginia Brown established the Virginia Brown Endowed Chair Fund in Latin Palaeography at Ohio State. This past fall, her husband James Hankins, professor of…