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The Department of Classics congratulates Lauri Reitzammer! Lauri Reitzammer has won a LEAP (Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion) Growth Grant , that will give her a teaching release next academic year to work on her current book project: Resident Aliens and Sacred Sightseers: Female Immigrants and Travelers in Athenian Tragedy .

The Department of Classics congratulates Sarah James! Sarah James has been awarded a CU Research and Innovation Seed Grant , a major grant that will support two seasons (in 2021 and 2022) of the Classics Department’s new archaeological project! The project is a collaboration with the University of Split that...

The Department of Classics congratulates Tyler Lansford on his promotion to Senior Instructor! Tyler Lansford (Ph.D. Washington 1991) is primarily interested in the historical topography of the city of Rome from antiquity to the present. His first book, The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide (Johns Hopkins 2009) features...

Through pieces of pottery, archaeologist touches history in the Mediterranean

Friday, 13th September, the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ appointed Professor Carole Newlands a University Distinguished Professor . The title "Distinguished Professor" is the highest honor that the University of Colorado bestows on its own faculty members. This title is extended to a very limited number of honorees chosen...

Congratulations to Yvona Trnka-Amrhein on the receipt of two external research fellowships, one from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC and one from the Loeb Foundation . These fellowships will allow her devote the next academic year to developing and finalizing her monograph, Portraits of a Pharaoh: The...

This award recognizes outstanding college and university teachers of Classics.

We are delighted to announce that Sarah James has won a CHA Faculty Fellowship for 2019-20. She will be working on the manuscript for her second book, entitled The Archaeology of Hellenistic Economies: Corinth and Mediterranean Trade in the 4th-1st centuries BCE . This book marks a new direction in...

Professor Elspeth Dusinberre - Archaeology, Imperialism, and What It Means To Be Human. Understanding how the Achaemenid Empire worked, the processes and effects of imperialism, can—if we wish—allow us a different glimpse into our own lives as well.