News
Cosmopolitan Smyrna Writing competition
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 elected president of the American Society for the Study of Religion (ASSR)
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 Marla Creamer receives national recognition
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 on visit to OSU
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 awarded an Open Scholarship to attend the Summer Session of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens
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 elected to the Goodwin Award of Merit Committee of the American Philological Association
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…
Endowed Chair Fund in Latin Palaeography
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…
Recent graduate student, Anna Peterson, accepts tenure-track position at Penn State
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!
Prof. Jusdanis Awarded NEH Fellowship
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…