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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…