2017 Student Award Winners

May 1, 2017

King-Hill Fellow in the Teaching of Latin: The King-Hill award was established o commemorate the work of Joy King, professor emerita and former chair of our department, and Barbara Hill, who for may years served as Latin program coordinator. This award is given to support a student pursing an MA...

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Winner of McClanahan Essay Prize - Elizabeth Deacon

Nov. 30, 2016

Congratulations to Elizabeth Deacon , winner of this year鈥檚 Mary E. V. McClanahan Graduate Essay Prize. Elizabeth is fourth-year PhD student working on Apuleius. She receives the $1500 prize for her essay 鈥淒iotima and Isis: The Platonic Model behind the Metamorphoses 鈥 Eleventh Book鈥. She will present her essay as...

Announcing the 2016 Dwyer Translation Prize Winners!

June 14, 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 Dwyer Translation Prize Winnners! This year's Dwyer Latin Translation Prize Winner is Susan Niederhoff, Astrophysics major and Classics minor. Susan won the prize for her translation of lines 390-405 of Book 9 of Vergil's Aeneid . This year's Dwyer Greek Translation Prize Winner is Classics major...

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