Classics in the News

SCS in the News: Martha Graham Dance Company at the 2025 Annual Meeting

The 2025 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting, which took place last month in Philadelphia, featured a performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company on Saturday, January 4th.

The event included performances of two Greek-themed modernist works by Martha Graham: Cave of the Heart (1946), Graham’s retelling of the myth of Medea, and Errand, the company’s 2013 version of Errand into the Maze (1947), a dance that draws on the myth of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur.

NEH Grantees: August 2024

Congratulations to the following National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grantees, announced in August 2024, for their project in classical studies and adjacent fields:

Caitlín Barrett and Kathryn Gleason (Cornell University): Toward an Archaeology of Lived Experience: Modeling Embodied Identities at Pompeii

Learn more and view the full list of recent grants awarded by NEH: August 2024 Press Release

Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863 – 1923)

Georgia Historical Society
Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863 – 1923)

Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 10:30 a.m.
Paine College’s Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel, off Druid Park Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, 30901

Dedicated by the Georgia Historical Society, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Paine College, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Open to the public and the media.

2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Classics

Congratulations to the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Classics, Gretchen Reydams-Schils (University of Notre Dame) and Andrew M. Riggsby (University of Texas at Austin)!

In 2024, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships across 52 fields. Since 1925, the Foundation has sought to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.”

NEH Grant Awardee: Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant to fund a three-year project at Monmouth College, “Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning.” Congratulations to Robert Holschuh Simmons (Classics), David Wright (English), Anne Mamary (Philosophy), and Valerie Deisinger (History)! This humanities initiative will create a digital repository based on student projects that center issues of displacement and local history in West Central Illinois.

Stephanie McCarter Wins 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Congratulations to Stephanie McCarter for winning the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, for her translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics, 2022).

Established in 1976, The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 annual award that "recognizes the work of a translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year." In 2023, Anna Deeny Morales chose the winning book.