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Professor Hans Bork awarded Phi Beta Kappa NorCal regional teaching award

July 19, 2023

Hans Bork (Stanford) – Classics (Latin)/ Digital Humanities. Ph.D., UCLA 2018, M.A.; Washington University in St. Louis, 2011, B.A.; Classics, UMass Amherst, 2009, B.A.; English Literature, UMass Amherst, 2009. I am one of the Latin Language and…

Robert Gregg, a longtime friend and affiliate of the department, has died.

May 18, 2023

Robert Gregg, a longtime friend and affiliate of the department, has died.

Q&A: New book probes blackness in ancient Greek literature and art

November 4, 2022

Stanford School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Excerpt from full article: Sarah F. Derbew believes you cannot analyze ancient writings and performances solely through the modern lens of race, even though many scholars do. In her first book, Derbew, an assistant professor of classics who is…

Brexit was 10,000 years in the making - new research by Ian Morris

July 13, 2022

Stanford Report

Excerpt from full article: Many reasons have been advanced to explain why Britain voted to leave the European Union, but the fundamental reason has been overlooked, according to Ian Morris, a historian and archaeologist at Stanford’s School of…

Placements and Awards 2022

June 2, 2022

We are happy to announce the following placements and awards. Please join us in congratulating current PhD students and recent grads/alum. Job Placements Brian Bigio (Ph.D. 2021) One-year position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitman…