Recent News

The Department of Classics is pleased to announce that three of its graduate students have been awarded fellowships for the upcoming academic year. Gabrielle Thiboutot received the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, Scott Weiss was awarded the Mellon…
Christopher B. Krebs, associate professor, will give the Prentice Lecture at Princeton University. His talk, entitled "Classics As Crime Fiction. A Conversation with Caesar, Labienus, and Polybius," will take place on November 15th. For more…
Placements as of August 2018: Scott Arcenas (PhD 2018), Lecturer, Department of Classics, Dartmouth CollegeFederica Carugati, (PhD 2015), Program Director,  Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford UniversityMegan J.…

mage credit: Courtesy Madeleine Ota

Throughout history, many groups, including ancient Greeks and Romans, have colonized the island of Sicily. Stanford senior Madeleine Ota researched how remnants of those classical civilizations affect the lives of local residents today. Read about…
The Department of Classics is glad to present its 2017-18 Teaching Award to graduate student Kevin Ennis. Kevin was the teaching assistant to Professor Trimble's winter course "Introduction to Roman Archaeology," and received wonderful feedback from…