Dear Members of the Society for Classical Studies:
I write with an update on the Society’s Executive Director position. Two weeks ago I wrote to say that our long-serving Executive Director Helen Cullyer was stepping down effective…
Dear members of the Society for Classical Studies:
I’m writing to provide information on an important transition in the SCS main office. Our Executive Director of the past seven years, Helen Cullyer, is stepping down from this role and her…
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).
As an undergraduate Classics student in the 1980s, I read somewhere the story of a Black man who attempted to register to vote in a southern state under Jim Crow. Local…
The Society for Classical Studies congratulates the following individuals and organizations announced as NEH Grantees in August 2023, for their projects in classical studies and adjacent fields:
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced a $175,000 grant to fund the Institute for K-12 Educators, “The Ancient Olympics and Daily Life in Ancient Olympia: A Hands-On History”, directed by SCS Members Nathalie Roy (Glasgow…