THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CLASSICS DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS www.classics.ku.edu • Issue 12 • Summer 2020
Dear Friends, This newsletter, a double issue for years 2018 and 2019, headed into press when the Covid-19 pandemic erupted. During this challenging time, we will strive to pursue an even deeper understanding of Classical culture and its complex legacy and to share that understanding with our students. Now more than ever Classics matters, when we must critically evaluate evidence, comprehend perspectives, and discern paths that honor self and other.
This year’s Chair’s includes seminars on the authors high school Report is a joint effort, teachers need to know and in-class discussion since Tara and of teaching strategies and resources. We are Pam have shared lucky to have the opportunity every year the role of Chair at our Phillips Colloquium to share ideas over the past few about teaching Latin with an excellent cadre semesters while Tara was on research leave. of Latin teachers, many of whom were once Many thanks to Pam, who was willing to step fledgling Latinists in our programs. They back into that role after such a long run as now have much to teach us. Chair herself! Our curricular developments reflect We have been busy responding to the a movement in the discipline toward changing needs of our students and to interdisciplinary thinking, collaborative developments in Classics as a discipline. Our work, and outreach. In thinking beyond students are increasingly eager for thematic its traditional structures and practices, the approaches to the Greek and Roman past, discipline is becoming more inclusive and and our curriculum now includes exciting diverse – and not a moment too soon. A courses in Ancient Magic and Witches, rising area of scholarship focuses on our Gladiators in History and Film, Alexander field’s contributions to and acts of resistance the Great, Ancient Origins of Modern against racist and xenophobic ideologies. Dan-el Padilla Peralta during his lecture “Classics as a Form of Racial Knowing.” Politics, and Ancient STEM. We are also Our department is deliberate in teaching reprising Roman Literature and Civilization students and the broader community about modern perceptions of ancient sculpture. In with an embedded study abroad trip to this aspect of Classics, with the aim that they keeping with the Halloween theme, we hired Rome over Spring break. Meanwhile, understand ancient Greece and Rome not as a living statue – a street artist who held the long-standing favorites such as Greek and inert, distant, or closed cultures but rather as pose of the Apollo Belvedere (see photo). Roman Mythology and even Latin and part of our intellectual and cultural heritage Working with African and African Greek languages have undergone substantial that has substantial and complex bearing on American Studies, American Studies, the revision, with a critical thinking focus added our modern lives. In the past few years, we Graduate Association for Philosophy, and to the former and online components added have hosted numerous speakers or events the Hall Center for the Humanities, we to the latter. We continue to develop online that speak to these concerns. As part of the hosted Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton versions of our courses, reaching students Hall Center’s first “Haunted Humanities” University) for a lecture on “Classics as a who might not otherwise turn to Classics. program, we presented “White Ghosts in the Form of Racial Knowing” (see photo). This For our graduate students, we are making Classical Museum,” a display, lecture, and event was structured around a question posed a conscious move toward offering more performance that raised issues related to the by Padilla Peralta: “How do disciplines such curricular support for those interested in colors of ancient sculpture and explored some as classics contribute to the organization and teaching Latin at the secondary level. This connections between racist ideologies and reproduction of those habits of mind and
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Chairs’ Report (continued from page 1) labor that sustain what Karen and Barbara Fields have termed ‘racecraft’?” We also hosted “A Cargo of Hellenic Beauty: Greek Picture Brides and American Whiteness,” a talk about early 20th-century Greek immigrants by Kathryn Vaggalis, PhD Candidate in American Studies at KU, and co-sponsored Donna Zuckerberg’s Keynote address for KU Masculinities Month, “Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age.” Donna Zuckerberg is the author of Not All Dead White Men (Harvard University Press, 2018), which explores online communities of the far right to better understand why and where antifeminism is thriving online. We invited our colleague Ben Jasnow from UMKC, to teach a course in race and ethnicity in antiquity, and later to lead a discussion on “teaching about ancient race and ethnicity” to our faculty and graduate students. We mentored two graduate students through theses dealing with modern political and cultural engagement with the classical world. Rachel Morrison explored how modern African American poets used and transformed the ancient poetry of Ovid, and Katri Niemi studied the use of Vergil’s Aeneid by Italian fascists in the 1930s; by the anti-war movement in the United States in the 1960s; and by the Alt-Right in the 2000s. More practically, through the efforts of Emma Scioli as Graduate Director, we have secured funding to help recruit minority students to our graduate program. In all these efforts we have relied on the energy and focus of our outstanding faculty. As you may know, three of your favorite professors have retired within the past five years: Tony Corbeill in 2017, Michael Shaw in 2018, and John Younger in 2019. Their legacy of impassioned teaching, intellectual depth, and service to the university is rich indeed. As you will see in the pages ahead, we have three new faculty members who have already made great contributions to the department and to KU. We are looking forward to more great things. With best wishes for the new year, Tara Welch and Pam Gordon
Update from the Wilcox Classical Museum By Phil Stinson, Curator
We are in the early stages of making much needed changes to our cherished Wilcox Classical Museum. Our goal is to utilize the museum much more than we are now, and to make the space and collection more inviting and more accessible to our target audience group and the broader KU community and public. The first major step of the project is to conduct organized planning activities during the next academic year. Our partners in this endeavor are the School of Architecture & Design, Museum Studies, and the Office of Campus Facilities, Planning and Development (FPD).
In addition, we are midway in modernizing the museum’s professional operations and procedures. For instance, we are revising our core documents, most importantly the acquisition policy (under what circumstances and how we will collect artifacts in the future), which will be in line with recommendations from professional organizations such as the Archaeological Institute of America. We will also soon join the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries.
In more news, a new online digital portal for the Wilcox Collection is nearly completed. Masterminded by graduate student Chad Uhl, the museum’s new website, now in beta form, features a searchable database driven by the content management system Omeka S. The database holds the collection’s catalogue entries for all inventoried artifacts and coins (originally prepared by former curators Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rehak, and John Younger). New digital photographs of each and every object and plaster cast are being taken by our undergraduate students. Once this fully illustrated database is completed, the development of a mobile app would also be within reach; the ultimate goal being to develop, through additional student-led initiatives, an app freely available to museum Undergraduate student Aaron Fugate photographing visitors and the public. objects from the Wilcox Collection.
2 www2.ku.edu/~classics Haunting Humanities 2018: “White Ghosts in the Classical Museum” By Pam Gordon and Phil Stinson f you were to be a Greek marble statue for Halloween—or a Greek or Roman god, hero, senator or empress—what color would you be? Would you gleam like the Parthenon or an extant bust of Pericles? If historical verisimilitude isI the goal, “white” is a problematic answer. Despite the current appearance of ancient sculptures in today’s museums, and despite the implicit and sometimes explicit claims of some fascist and white supremacist groups, whiteness was not the norm in ancient Greek and Roman art, culture, or everyday life. Classicists are becoming increasingly aware that white marble was normally painted in darker colors, and that ancient Mediterranean peoples are unlikely to have looked like today’s white Europeans. These issues recently emerged as a burning topic for our department. At the first ever Haunting Humanities event on October 24th, 2018, held at Abe & Jake’s Landing in downtown Lawrence, a group of Classics students led by Profs. Phil Stinson and Emma Scioli presented research on historical and curatorial topics related to color and ancient art. They also demonstrated the department’s future plans to design a major new exhibit for the Wilcox Classical Museum devoted to the topic. A “living statue”—aka a street Living statue of Apollo Belvedere. Color study of the Wilcox artist who holds a pose as a statue, often fooling Collection’s plaster cast of bystanders—also appeared in the guise of the the bust of Roman emperor museum’s cast of the Apollo Belvedere. Marcus Aurelius (study by undergraduate student The living statue as well as a digital display on the methods that could be involved in “colorizing” our Aaron Fugate). museum’s plaster casts showcased student projects from Prof. Stinson’s class CLSX 527 “Roman Art and Archaeology.” Like the event’s ghostly white-costumed performer and the famous casts of the Wilcox Classical Museum, whiteness haunts our discipline, and has recently plunged Classicists into an urgent need to examine our discipline’s history.
The Paul Rehak Symposium on Ancient Art n March 2018, we hosted the 13th Annual Paul Rehak Symposium on Ancient Art. The theme was “Material Culture in IAntiquity: Theory and Artifact” The invited guests, whose names and topics are listed below, spoke on a fascinating array of topics.
Francesco de Angelis, Professor and Chair of the Classical Studies Graduate Program, Columbia University “Histories of Material Culture in Classical Greece: Theopompus, Herodotus, and Delphi”
S. Rebecca Martin, Assistant Professor of Greek Art and Architecture, Boston University “Hellenic Interconnections in the Near East” (continued on page 4) www2.ku.edu/~classics 3 Department News
Rehak Symposium (continued from page 3)
Verity Jane Platt, Professor of Classics and History of Art, Cornell University “Beeswax: The Natural History of an Archetypal Medium”
In March 2019, we invited a single speaker to present current archaeological work. Michael Hoff, the Hixson- Lied Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, spoke to us in a lively talk about his excavation at the site of Antiocha ad Cragum in Turkey (see photo at right). Two of our students joined his team in Turkey the following summer (see photo in the Students Studying Michael Hoff, the Hixson-Lied Professor of Art History at the University Abroad section). of Nebraska - Lincoln
Professor John Younger Retires in 2019 rofessor John Younger retired from teaching (and university administration) on June 30, 2019, after some 45 years of teaching (first Duke, then KU). He and his husband Cody now live on their farm south of Lawrence, which is pretty primitive: Pcutting wood and chopping it for their wood stove, gathering eggs from their chickens, trying to herd their two goats (Honey Graham crackers make effective lures!), and gearing up for early Spring seeding. From home, John is working on publishing the 4000 year old pottery workshop he excavated from 2011-2015 (see earlier Newsletters for photographs). This was a sprawling building with 11 kilns, a huge below-ground storage bin for raw clay, water sluiced in from high up the slope, outdoor drying yards for the newly formed pots, 3-5 potter’s stations where the potters formed the pots, and some 50-60 intact pots that the potters left behind when they just up and left the factory. We don’t know why. In late October, Cody and John went to Greece for 19 days. It was mostly non- archaeological (ha!): first up to the island of Lesbos to tour ouzo factories, a petrified forest, and the Teriade Museum full of original works by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Then down by plane and ferry boat to the island Kea where John had dug his first solo trench at the Early Bronze Age site of Ayia Irini under Jack Caskey. I was 29 at the time, Ari in Cody’s bookbag in Naoussa but remember it vividly: Jack had led me to the part of the site he wanted me to excavate Greece, off to find a veterinarian the day and said he was off to Athens for 10 days and I wasn’t to find anything. When Jack before we took him to Kansas [Oct 31, 2019]. returned, he glared down at the small Byzantine chapel, Roman cemetery (no heads but coins where the heads should have been), Late Bronze Age buildings, and Early Cycladic tombs. “I thought you weren’t supposed to find anything!,” he roared, then laughed. I was hooked. Also on Kea, we hiked the 12 miles to Karthaia, an Archaic city on the east coast. There the Greek Archaeological Service had reconstructed temples and a theater. Too bad they hadn’t reconstructed a water-fountain! On the way to the site, we paused at the famous late 7th c. BCE lion and visited the museum with the life-sized clay statues of dancing women from about 1500 BCE. After that, we flew to Thessaloniki where we visited the museum and Byzantine churches. And ate pastries and drank Greek coffees and watched the (north Greek) world pass by. Then we rented a car and drove west to Naoussa, visiting Alexander’s capital at Pella and his father’s palace at Vergina where Philip II was assassinated. We also visited the family tombs at the famous museum there in the reconstructed burial tumulus.
4 www2.ku.edu/~classics At Naoussa we drove around and visited wineries. A young puppy, not quite 6 weeks old, had taken to following us about, and after two days of this, I bent over, grabbed the little guy, put him in Cody’s bookbag and we set out to find a Vet for his shots. What started out so easily quickly turned complicated (ah, Greece!). The domestic airline wouldn’t allow us to fly with the dog back to Athens (“he’s too young! He hasn’t had his rabies shots!”), so at the end of our trip we rented a car and drove to the Athens airport (7 hours), from which we flew to America the next day: Swiss Air, however, had no scruples about sending a pre-rabies-shot dog to the US. Before we left Naoussa, we had visited the site of Esvoria, just outside the city, where Aristotle had his school and where he taught Alexander. When the Vet asked what our new dog’s name was going to be, I replied “Aristotéles.” The Vet laughed and said “I do all for you,” and proceeded to fill out Ari’s Pet Passport with (shall we say) slightly doctored vaccination dates. Ari is now 5 months old (we guess), trebled in size, and looking very much like a Greek shepherd. He acts like one, too, chasing after the goats and getting them in their pen so I can reward them with their Honey Grahams. Farm life with a bit of Greece tucked in is real nice! A goat named Coco.
Interviews with New Faculty Undergraduate Student Caroline Barnes How do you try to make Classics accessible to a broad interviews William Bruce, Visiting audience? Assistant Professor I don’t feel I really need to try anything! I let the material Caroline Barnes: How did you get interested in Greek archaeology? speak for itself, and students Will Bruce: I got interested in Classics through the literature. I was are just naturally drawn into an English major when I entered college and had taken Latin in high how interesting it is. The myths, school. To finish up my language requirement I took a course on Virgil the history, the monuments, and I was hooked. My interest in archaeology began during my summer the art--I just try to cram in as session at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, while I much as I can, and students was in graduate school. I had dabbled previously in archaeology for my invariably want more. MA thesis which was on the topographical history of the Tiber Island in Rome. I was contacted by Nicholas Cahill the director of Sardis to What is the most challenging do some work on Greek inscriptions (it was really a boring computer aspect of being an job fixing the Greek in an old Word Perfect file!), but in working with archaeologist? him I realized the scope of research projects which needed to be done. I The long hours during the decided I wanted to write a Sardis dissertation before I ever even went to season? Reading handwriting William Bruce the site. Once I went, I developed my skills as a field archaeologist and in old excavation notebooks? never looked back. Drawing 20 m. scarps from a ladder? Lots of options there, but I guess the most challenging thing is also the most rewarding--which is taking If there was one work of ancient literature or an ancient monument a very incomplete picture of something, scraps of evidence here and lost from antiquity that you would like to recover, what would it be? there, matching them with comparanda from other sites, trying to Literature: Caesar’s work on Latin grammar de Analogia and the square the archaeology with the historical sources, and then deriving a emperor Claudius’ Etruscan History; Monument: some intact portions coherent interpretation of some aspect of the ancient world. It’s a very of the Palace of Croesus (which still might be found!) creative process which must be firmly grounded in evidence. It’s tough but it never gets dull! What is one of your major research interests? In addition to my fieldwork, I have been working on the social, political, If you could solve one archeological mystery what would it be? and religious changes which occur during Sardis’ transformation from The end of the Bronze Age. Nothing has exercised the minds of so the capital of the Lydian Empire to a satrapal capital of the Persian many people, and we still just don’t know. There’s lots of evidence and Empire. Sardis is interesting because it looks both west to the Hellenic lots of opinions, but perhaps we’ll never know. I guess that’s why I’m Aegean world and east toward the older Near Eastern kingdoms. Like not a prehistorian--this problem bugs me to no end! modern Turkey, Lydia was a crossroads between east and west. www2.ku.edu/~classics 5 Department News Interviews with New Faculty Undergraduate Student Grant Hussong interviews Gina White, Assistant Professor
Grant Hussong: Tell me about your first introduction to Classics as a discipline. Gina White: I had done a little bit of Latin and I really enjoyed it, but I had also done German and French and enjoyed both of those. Yet, when I turned 16 [the age The Anthony P. when you choose “A-level” subjects in the UK], I didn’t Gina White take Latin; instead I took Chemistry, Physics, Maths, and Corbeill Outstanding English. When I started Maths, I discovered that I just Graduate Student found it so boring (Chemistry and Physics were interesting because they were so connected to people, even if indirectly). So I went to everyone in the faculty at my Award school and I said I wanted to do something more human-y. I said I was weighing up History or Latin, and I got convinced by the Latin teacher, who said, “you can study Tony Corbeill was a professor in the an entire culture in all aspects: the literature, the history, and the philosophy.” Classics department for 26 years, before his retirement from KU in Now going into University, what was your intention? 2017 to become the Gildersleeve In the UK you choose one subject to study throughout your entire time at Chair of Latin at the University of university; you don’t do a liberal arts degree then decide what to major in later Virginia in Charlottesville. on. I had done A-level Latin, I had started to read a little bit of Greek texts in translation, and I was really excited about learning Greek. The Classics degree at The Anthony P. Corbeill Outstanding Oxford allowed you to learn Greek, do literature, history, philosophy, and study Graduate Student Award is given historical linguistics. You could also take as much modern philosophy as you liked. annually to a graduate student who So, I thought, “This is the course for me! I don’t have to make any decisions! I could has demonstrated excellence in do all the humanities at once!” And that’s what I did. But I didn’t go to university coursework, teaching, and research intending to be a Classicist. I didn’t know that was a thing you could be! during their time in the MA program at KU. Can you talk about your research interests and how you got into Ciceronian Philosophy? Recipients of the Corbeill Award: I knew Cicero and discovered his philosophy later. At Oxford I started to study 2018. Rachel Morrison. Rachel is in Seneca and thought, “wow, this has all of the things I love about reading Cicero’s the second year of her PhD program prose, but it has all of this content I love from philosophy.” It wasn’t long after in Classics at UCLA. that that I realized that Cicero was also a philosopher – which is not something you’re always told when you take Latin literature courses! I didn’t take any courses in undergrad that were on Ciceronian philosophy; I was just really interested in it. 2019. Nick Bolig. Nick is in the first When I was reading his philosophy, I found lots of people being highly critical, year of his PhD program in Classics at saying he’s a derivative thinker and that sort of thing. When I did my MA, one of UNC, Chapel Hill. the things I started doing was more intensely studying Stoicism to find out if that was true. It’s not really true. Cicero never claims to be starting up a new system, but Please consider a donation to the he is definitely innovating, he’s making it more Roman. Anthony P. Corbeill Outstanding Graduate Student Award. For Along the lines of the research question, what is your goal in pursuing Classics? information about how to make your The primary goal: to help my students to do what they want to do in their lives. contribution, see page 19. If you want to go to grad school, to give you the skills to do that. If you want a different career and just want to learn a little about the Roman world to understand who we now are, then [the goal is to] do that. So, to provide whatever information, 6 www2.ku.edu/~classics guidance, skills, to let YOU succeed in what you want to do Undergraduate in the future. In terms of research, it’s just find the truth or student Laura Phillips as close to the truth as we can about these texts. So, to read things as charitably as possible, to try and figure out what the interviews Paul Touyz, original authors were doing in their context, and to try to Visiting Assistant work with them in their own terms. Professor
With that in mind, what future do you see for Classics? Laura Phillips: What was your first Institutionally, I think that Classics [would benefit from introduction to Classics? more] comparative discourse with other cultures. There is no Paul Touyz: That’s a hard question reason if you’re interested in the ancient world not to study as it was rather early. It was one of Paul Touyz Ancient China and Ancient Mesopotamia, as well as the two things; either mythology, as I recall Ancient Mediterranean. I just finished teaching a course on having a kids’ version of the Odyssey for bedtime reading. The the ancient roots of modern politics, and this is another way other thing was history in general. I always loved history. I had to use a comparative lens to make Classics relevant. We’re a set of children’s encyclopedias growing up at home. I knew all having the same discussions [on constitutional theory] now about George Washington and the cherry tree as well as bits and that Herodotus was having! And everyone [who had these pieces about Pericles and Odysseus. discussions] before the early twentieth century was speaking with the Classics at the forefront of their minds, using ancient What do you think draws students to Classics? ideas as a baseline. If we, as Classicists, do not help people I think that it is a fascination with people. I think that is a point to understand that, it’s not just that they won’t be able to about learning languages and history in general. Classics is understand what’s happening in the ancient world; they won’t especially fascinating as it is so present in the architecture around be able to understand what Marx is doing, what Machiavelli is us: the language, the politics, democracy, republics, and the mythology are still alive and kicking. doing, what Thomas More is doing. What is one thing you hope all your students will gain from Do you think that the study of Classics will allow us to your classes? move past these familiar issues or just enable us to try Critical self-awareness. Some idea of their place in history and different solutions to them? their relationship to the past and what that might equip them Both. I think that, for instance, at the moment in the US with for the future. Alternatively, just how to read slowly. Read there is this issue of executive power and the expanding role slowly and think slowly. Which I think amounts to pretty much of the president. We have seen in ancient Rome what happens the same thing. when you expand the role of the princeps and have a senate in name alone. You do not need to run that experiment again; Classics is sometimes seen as an “elitist” subject, how do you we have the data. Rome has this amazing ability to be so make it available to a broader audience? familiar that we can engage with it, but distant enough that Classics is definitely elitist historically. In many respects my we can leave some of our biases behind. It is really analytically own background is one that would not have been able to take useful in that sense. up classics. I just try to replicate my own experience: open intellectual environments, encourage questions, make the If there were one work of ancient literature that you would material accessible where possible by providing texts and opening like to see recovered, what it would be and why? up the classical world to all students. In practical terms it comes For me personally, because of what I work on, I would like down to attracting students and keeping them as long as possible. Cicero’s translation of the Protagoras. I would also like the Part of this is making Classics fun and debunking the idea that De Gloria, and also the rest of the De Fato. We only have a it is inherently elitist. All history but especially ancient history few sections of [De Fato], and it seems really important. It is served well by attempts to broaden its focus to what is going deals with fate obviously, which is an incredibly religiously outside the circle of elite men, and to think more about what loaded concept in Roman times, but it deals with it through people in ancient Rome were doing on the periphery: women, the lens of Stoic philosophy. So I would like to see how slaves, and children. [Cicero] negotiates traditional Roman religious ideas using When you started learning Classics, what was your goal? this Stoicising lens. If I had ten wishes, probably nine of them I just wanted to read Plato. I think that was the starting point. I would be to find texts, and one would be world peace. (continued on page 8) www2.ku.edu/~classics 7 Department News
New Faculty Interviews (continued from page 7) grew up speaking Spanish, then I started learning French and German. By the time I was able to start learning Greek and Latin there was the interest in learning languages.
What made you want to teach Classics? When I got to university, I started doing law. I realized that law wasn’t for me so I dumped law and filled my schedule with classics. My teachers themselves were a big influence. I had really good teachers and they made me aware of what good teaching was and what sort of life it could be. Many of my old teachers are still mentors and friends.
What made you want to come to KU and what do you like most about it? Well Gina got the job offer and it was an exciting opportunity for both of us to teach and do what we love. We are enjoying the community; it is a great department and everybody gets along. The department attracts people from all sorts of backgrounds and interests which is really quite exciting. We are both enjoying Lawrence as well. I grew up in a big city and there are definite advantages to a big city, but I did grad school in a small town and always had small town connections, so I am happy to be in a place like Lawrence. Big open skies, pretty chill, gives me time to do some reading.
What is one of your major areas of research? Greek drama and aesthetics. In particular, satyr play and the way in which it essentially becomes a third genre next to tragedy and comedy. But I have also done a lot of work on reception, so the later history of Greek literature, especially in modern German culture from the 18th century onward.
If there was one work of ancient literature that you could recover, what would it be and why? I don’t know. On the one hand, because of what I work on, the mystical book 2 of Aristotle’s Poetics - it would be miraculous if we could get that back. At the same time, there is only a single satyr play that is extant, so I wouldn’t mind a few more. A collection would be nice. Otherwise Marc Antony wrote a treatise called de sua ebrietate and that would be an interesting insight and alternative voice to a history otherwise written by the victors. I wouldn’t mind knowing what Marc Antony had to say there.
Haufler Core Innovation Award In March 2018, the Classics Department was honored with the Haufler Core Innovation Award. The award honors the creative and forward-thinking work of academic departments in developing or transforming outstanding core courses, assessing the KU Core learning outcomes, and disseminating the assessments as models of excellent teaching and learning.
Photo: Tara Welch (right) receiving the award on behalf of the department.
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Graduate student Jack Rogers: Jack and Drew Belanger with a view of Rome from the Janiculum behind them. Jack was a participant in the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome (Summer 2018).
Undergraduate Jack Campbell: I spent the Fall 2019 semester at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (the “Centro”). I had the pleasure of venturing to various monuments and archaeological sites in and around Rome (including Campania and Sicily). My studies and explorations while at the Centro were facilitated by both the Ancient City course— the core class of the program— and the Conservation of Material Culture course taught by Dr. Roberto Nardi. In this photo, I am giving a presentation at the amphitheater in Pompeii about the famous riot that Undergraduate student Steve Rector: Steve worked on an excavation in Turkey at occurred there in AD 59. I also took intermediate Latin the site of Antiocha ad Cragum (Summer 2019). The project is directed by Professor where we translated Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura. I Michael Hoff from the University of Nebraska. Steve (on the left) with Rami, the owe a big thanks to Prof. Stinson and the rest of the excavation foreman, posing in front of the base of a press Rami just uncovered. They department for helping me attend the Centro. It was found the press stone the previous year, so he was very excited to find the base. truly a once in a lifetime experience.
www2.ku.edu/~classics 9 Faculty News WILL BRUCE: I am so excited to have first, “Aristophanic Incongruities”, will older interests, namely choral singing joined the KU Classics faculty this year. appear in Aristophanic Humour: Theory and and sketching, and Anne and I both have I am teaching a variety of archaeology, Practice (2020, Bloomsbury), and the second, enjoyed sharing our daughters’ interest in history, and language courses and have been “Humour through Sound”, will appear the theater. In the spring of 2019, I audited delighted by my students’ curiosity and hard in the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Prof. Tuozzo’s presocratics class, valuable in work. My research focuses on ancient Lydia Greek Humour in 2021. I’ve given talks itself and in understanding the way my two and its capital Sardis where I have been on various topics related to paracomedy, favorite authors, Sophocles and Thucydides, working since 2008 and senior archaeologist humor, and horror at CAMWS (2018, viewed the world. In the spring, I also since 2012. I recently contributed a chapter 2019, 2020), Ohio State University (2018), gave a paper at CAMWS about Tecmessa to Spear-Won Land 2019 (Eds. Berlin and and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2018). in the Ajax of Sophocles, and will give Kosmin), a new look at the history and I’ve been pursuing these same interests in another paper on the Ajax in the spring of archaeology of Hellenistic Sardis, and I am my teaching as well. I’ve offered some new 2020, concerning the political aspect of the currently working on an article on newly courses on these topics (e.g., a graduate same play. Anne and I both contributed to discovered Early Bronze Age material from Greek seminar on Aristophanes and humor; Stanley’s Nonnus project by translating a a 50-foot deep pit in one of my trenches. a freshman honors seminar on horror film book each of the Dionysiaca. This is affording me the opportunity to and Greek tragedy), but I’ve also been able to collaborate with scholars from Madison, tap into some other topics I like (e.g., Greek PHIL STINSON: I spent Spring 2018 Wisconsin, Izmir, Prague, and our and Latin linguistics; ancient magic and in Philadelphia honorably serving as the neighboring institution KSU in Manhattan, witches). I’m a big fan of being able to teach Williams Visiting Professor of Roman KS. Several KU students had planned to about Alien and Harry Potter in addition to Architecture in the Department of Art come to Turkey this summer to work on Classics! History at the University of Pennsylvania. archaeological excavations, and I hope they I had a great time. While there, I co-taught will have the opportunity to do so in 2021. EMMA SCIOLI: I have enjoyed teaching a course with Brian Rose on the ancient In Spring I offered a new course in Ancient Gender and Sexuality in Roman Culture city of Rome, and I instructed a graduate STEM, in which we studied some of the the past two years and was fortunate to seminar on the usage of digital technologies fascinating technological and scientific bookend 2018 and 2019 with two seminars in the study of Roman architecture. In developments from the Greek and Roman on Latin poetry: one on Statius’ Thebaid other news, since taking over duties of worlds. and the other on Women in Roman Epic. Curator of the Wilcox Museum after John My research continues to follow two parallel Younger’s retirement, I have focused on PAMELA GORDON: Last fall (2018) paths: Roman epic poetry and the reception developing ideas for a future renovation I traveled to England to give a paper of antiquity in film. In 2019, my essay on and “reimagining” of the museum and its called “The Epicurean Writes Back” at Jules Dassin’s 1962 film “Phaedra” appeared mission (see this Newsletter). I continue Philosophical Letters: A Conference on in a volume called Screening the Golden Ages to travel to Turkey in the summers to Philosophy and Epistolarity at the University of the Classical Tradition, and I was invited conduct archaeological research at the sites of Manchester. Then last May (2019) I gave to give a lecture on “Barbarian Queens on of Aphrodisias and Sardis. In late 2019, the paper “Being Torquatus” at the Fifth the Silver Screen” at the University of South I published an article about architectural Annual Conference of the Foro di Studi Dakota. At the 2018 CAMWS I gave a refinements at Aphrodisias in the Journal of Avanzati “Gaetano Massa” in Rome. The first paper on the bloody hands of Oedipus and Roman Archaeology. Last but not least, I am paper is about Greek/Latin code-switching Theseus in Statius’ Thebaid, and wrote an delighted to have a Sardian colleague, Will in the correspondence between Cassius and essay on Statius’ “redecoration” of the House Bruce, join our department. Cicero; and the second treats Epicurean of Somnus, an episode familiar from Ovid’s stereotypes and counter-stereotypes in Metamorphoses. This piece will appear in a PAUL TOUYZ: It has been a busy and Cicero, Horace, Plutarch, and Lucian. In 2021 volume called Domitian’s Rome and the exciting year. The move to Lawrence kept family news: Our daughter Li is attending Augustan Legacy. In summer 2019, Phil and me on my toes, but the town, department, Bryn Mawr College! I brought our children to Turkey (Celeste and university helped make 2018-19 a is now 13, Nico is 7). Nico went early and very enjoyable year. I had a full schedule CRAIG JENDZA: I’ve continued my stayed with Phil at Sardis for two weeks, of teaching, including two introductory research into paracomedy and have begun where he became an expert on the latest seminars, one on Roman history, and one investigating some new topics in Greek conservation techniques and learned how to on Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Greek humor and horror. I completed my first fly a drone (needless to say, future summers history. I covered similar territory in two book, Paracomedy: Appropriations of in Lawrence will never quite match up!). senior courses on methods and problems in Comedy in Greek Tragedy (2020, Oxford Greek history up to Alexander and the early University Press) and I have two articles MICHAEL SHAW: In my first year Roman Empire. My personal favourite for forthcoming on ancient Greek humor. The of retirement I have returned to some the year, however, and the most challenging,
10 www2.ku.edu/~classics was a graduate seminar on Greek prose summer looking at manuscripts of Valerius fun to help students to discover the materials composition in the fall. Remarkably the Maximus’ Facta et Dicta Memorabilia – housed at the Spencer Museum of Art and grads were still speaking to me by the one, the earliest extant manuscript of this Dole Institute of Politics, as well as our own spring, when we read Pindar and Apollonius text (from c.850), another, Charles V of beloved Wilcox Classical Museum. together. What spare time I had was France’s personal copy (14th c.). I drafted dedicated to satyrs and satyrplay. I defended two chapters of my book Reading Valerius When I haven’t been teaching, I’ve been my dissertation in Princeton in October Maximus during my leave time; one of these working on my book project, Cicero’s 2018, and since then have been revising might appear soon as an article (absit omen)! Philosophical Translations, which discusses papers on Aeschylus and the development Cicero’s treatment of Greek philosophy; of satyrplay in the Hellenistic period. To GINA WHITE: This year, I’ve been working as well as finishing up a number of top the year off, Gina and I got hitched in to redesign the Introductory Latin sequence. book chapters dealing with topics such Oxford, where we were joined by friends and We’ve finally (and with great respect) retired as formulaic feasting scenes in the Ilias family from all over the world. 2019-2020 Wheelock and are trying out a new textbook Latina and fiction in Cicero’s skeptical promises to be calmer. I’m reprising most designed to meet the needs of today’s college works. I was also part of a strong KU of the history courses, adding some Greek students. We’re also employing a hybrid contingent at the most recent CAMWS in tragedy to the mix, and hopefully I’ll have teaching model, where class is taught online Lincoln, NE, where I presented a paper on room for more satyrs too! two days a week, so that students who would one of Cicero’s stranger works, the Stoic otherwise be unable to take the course Paradoxes. This summer, I was lucky enough TARA WELCH: I spent Spring 2018 as a have the opportunity to take Latin. This to spend a week in Cambridge at the Keeler Fellow doing research in medieval semester, I’ve also been teaching a First Year Symposium Hellenisticum, workshopping manuscripts with Anne D Hedemann in Seminar on the “Ancient Roots of Modern ideas on Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, the Art History department. This experience Politics”. A key goal of a First Year Seminar and, while in the UK, to get married on an broadened my horizons considerably. I spent is to introduce students to the resources uncharacteristically sunny day. two weeks in Bern, Paris, and London that available on campus, and it’s been a lot of
Celebrating the Career of Professor Michael Shaw
After nearly 50 years of teaching at KU, Michael Shaw retired at the end of the 2018 academic year. Professor Shaw’s academic career was celebrated on a warm July night at the Cider Gallery in East Lawrence. Guests included many KU faculty members from Classics and other departments, former students, friends, and his daughters Jane and Helen. Michael was presented with a leather-bound book containing reminiscences from many students who had fond memories of Michael’s teaching and mentoring during his time at KU. Anne and Michael Shaw with Corinne Anderson
Pam Gordon with Michael Shaw Tony Corbeill with Michael Shaw John Younger with Michael Shaw
www2.ku.edu/~classics 11 Alumni/Alumnae News
Andrew Clark, (BA 2012): I graduated Anna Mayersohn, (MA 2019): I’m orders and repairs. I am now the proud from the University of Florida in August doing a one-year AmeriCorps program with mother of three. While traveling the country 2018 (My dissertation ended up being about a youth writing and publishing nonprofit this summer with the kids, I rediscovered a 400 pages, so I needed the extra year to called 826 Boston, which is one of eight love of museums. The artifacts, the history, work on it. It was a beast.) My dissertation such 826 organizations nationwide. One the personal stories of all of the treasures was on Solon of Athens and the categories function of 826 Boston is to run Writers’ housed in our temples to conservation of information that has been passed down Rooms in a handful of high schools: cozy, reignited the passion I had when I chose to about him. I separated all the testimonia welcoming spaces where students can come major in Classics. With an invigorated spirit about him into four main categories—the with a class or on their own to get help with for the preservation and implementation poetry, the laws, the sage stories, and the their writing. I work as a tutor in one of of history, I was honored to attend the KU general biographical information—and these Writers’ Rooms, where I work one-on- Classics Phillips Colloquium. Amy Norgard’s discussed how the stories relate to each other. one with students, sometimes on essays for presentation of the Aequora program was so I taught Latin and Classical Mythology their English or history classes, sometimes compelling that I look forward to initiating at the University of North Florida while I on creative writing assignments or science a Leavenworth site this Spring. Never a dull finished writing. Over the summer I plan on projects. Working with the students was moment, that’s for sure! beginning the monumental task of revising daunting at first, but my experience teaching and adding to my dissertation to try to get the writing heavy Ancient Epic Tales course Katri Niemi, (MA 2018): Katri is the in shape for publication at some point in the at KU definitely helped. In my spare time, Latin teacher at Bishop Lynch High School, 2020’s. We shall see. I’m keeping my Greek and Latin skills sharp! which is a Catholic co-ed college prep school in Dallas, TX. This year she is teaching Latin Stephen Collins-Elliott (BA 2006): Michelle Gregor Mendiola, (BA 2009): at all levels, including AP. She has had a lot Stephen, assistant professor of Classics at the After graduating from KU I moved to of fun reading Virgil’s Aeneid and Caesar’s De University of Tennessee, and Jenny Collins- Colorado Springs where I started my family Bello Gallico with her students. Elliott welcomed son Oliver in March 2020. and stumbled across a captivating Seleucid Queen while looking for a name for the Curtis Runnels, (BA 1972): Runnels, Wes Hanson (MA 2015): I am in my daughter I was expecting. I’ve been working professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, fifth year at the University of Pennsylvania off and on for the past ten years to tease out and Classical Studies at Boston University, is where I am currently writing a dissertation on the recipient of two prestigious honors. In Suetonius’ biographical form and its impact 2019, he was awarded the Archaeological on the reader’s evaluation of the principate as Institute of America’s highest award – its an institution made up of individual men. Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological My interest in form and Roman political Achievement. At their 2021 Gala, he thought drives me to reconsider old will receive the Gennadius Prize from the assumptions about Suetonius’ organizational American School of Classical Studies at and structural craft. I have also given Athens. conference papers on a range of interests largely related to Latin prose and won the Zachary Quint, (BA 2008): Since 2018 Dean’s Award for Distinguished October 2018, I have been the Librarian for Teaching by a Graduate Student. Classical Studies and Modern Greek at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I have Wes Hanson and fellow Penn Classics especially enjoyed teaching library sessions graduate student Amy Lewis were married on for the Dept. of Classical Studies. It is always July 27, 2019 (see photo below). the facts of Cleopatra Thea’s life; who she exciting when I have the opportunity to was as a living person beyond the sum of demonstrate search strategies or to design the surviving facts about her. Someday all of classes around rare maps of Rome. But, of that work will be a book that will hopefully course, I thoroughly enjoy selecting new do her justice. In the fall of 2013 I dove into books and resources for the library. I even the world of small business ownership by had the opportunity to attend a library opening a local yarn shop, Momo’s Knitting conference in Athens, Greece where I was Nook, in Leavenworth, Kansas. I have always able to meet my vendor for modern Greek had affinity for knitting and crochet and I titles. Also, I attended tours designed for wanted to share the art of working with yarn. librarians at the British School at Athens, the I enjoyed the shop for three years before it Gennadius Library, and the Blegen Library was time to find a buyer and pass it on. My (ASCSA). love for yarn hasn’t waned. I still teach on the weekends and take on commissioned
12 www2.ku.edu/~classics As noted in a recent newsletter from the Cambridge Latin Course: Both Emily Kratzer (BA 2004), Latin teacher at Bosque School in Albuquerque, NM, and Melissa Goldman (BA 1995 and MA 1997), Latin teacher at Los Alamos High School (NM), received scholarships to participate in summer workshops hosted by CLC in Austin, TX.
Several KU Classics students gathered in Texas for the July Michael Nichols (MA 2015) and his wife Stevi, who were 2018 wedding of Casey Hughes (MA 2017) and Scott McMickle married in December 2016. (MA 2017). L to R: Kara Kopchinski (MA 2018), Katri Niemi (MA 2018), Michael Woo (MA 2017), Scott and Casey, Rachel Morrison (MA 2018), Caroline Nemechek (MA 2017).
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www2.ku.edu/~classics 13 Remembrances Professor Oliver Phillips, 1929-2010
It has been ten years since the passing of KU Classics Professor Emeritus Oliver Phillips. Professor Phillips’ memory and legacy lives on for us in several ways. The annual Oliver Phillips Colloquium has provided an opportunity for the KU Classics community to come together with local high school teachers to share ideas about pedagogy and to hear about the current state of affairs in our local high school and middle school Latin classrooms. The theme of the 2018 Phillips Colloquium was “Gladiators and Ancient Roman Sport,” with guest speaker Alison Futrell from the University of Arizona. In 2019, we learned about “Outreach in Local Elementary and Middle School Classrooms,” from Amy Norgard of Truman State University. (See photos below)
Oliver Phillips’ granddaughter Laura Phillips, a current KU junior majoring in classical languages and ecology, evolution & organismal biology, was named a finalist for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Laura also received Honorable Mention recognition for the Udall Undergradaute Scholarship. Both scholarships recognize students who demonstrate leadership in public service. Laura shared with us an early photo of herself with her grandfather (above). She recalls lying in his arms and listening to him tell stories from Greek mythology. Please consider a donation to the Oliver Phillips Scholarship. For information about how to make your contribution, see page 19.
14 www2.ku.edu/~classics In Memoriam Lois E. Harrell August 27, 1920-June 6, 2018
We are sad to share news of the passing of Lois E. Harrell, longtime Classics Department secretary who retired in 1988 but is still remembered with great fondness and respect. She was born on August 27, 1920 in Lawrence, Kansas the daughter of Herbert and Anna Gustava (Behrens) Bailey, and married the late James M. Harrell, Sr. in 1941 in Lawrence. After her husband became disabled she worked for 15 years in the Classics Department. She was also very active at Trinity Lutheran Church and was involved in the Lawrence Garden Club.
Survivors include four daughters, two sons, 21 great -grandchildren and 13 great- great-grandchildren.
Retired Classics faculty remember her fondly. As Betty Banks writes, “We would never have survived without her. She was secretary for all of us - ordering books, typing exams on her Selectric - you name it she did it! And with a quiet dignity uniquely hers.”
Stan Lombardo adds: “Beyond all her virtues as a secretary—reliability, efficiency, patience, and more—Lois (whom we always called Mrs. Harrell) was simply a dear presence in the Classics Dept. office.” Michael Shaw recalls, “she was extremely helpful during my brief stint as acting chair many years ago, and I would like to mention her action, taken on her own initiative, to catalog the books in the seminar room. This was the first step towards creating the professional system that we have today. Her personal warmth also played a role in creating the collegiality that has long been a departmental virtue.”
In Memoriam Andrea Lee Purvis (BGS 1993) November 25, 1957- April 16, 2018
We have lost a beloved student who received the BGS in Classical Languages in 1993. Andrea Purvis began her study of Classics at Bucknell University, and was a star in our Greek and Latin MA seminars before she moved on to Duke University where she received the PhD in Classical Studies in 1998. Andrea’s excellent first book, Singular Dedications. Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece, was published as the first volume of Studies in Classics: Outstanding Dissertations (Routledge 2003). She was also the translator of The Landmark Herodotus and co-author of Four Island Utopias. She was predeceased by her husband of 14 years, Diskin Clay. Pam Gordon remembers Andrea fondly not just as a brilliant Hellenist, but as a lovely East Lawrence neighbor who frequently offered to water her garden.
www2.ku.edu/~classics 15 43rd Annual Honors Recognition Celebration 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Tenney Frank Recruitment Award Amy Coplan, Professor of Philosophy, California State University- Awarded to an incoming Classics student. Fullerton Grant Hussong “Plato on the Power of Narrative Art” Graduate Student Latin Prize MASTERS OF CEREMONIES Michael Fons Michael Shaw Hannah Oliver Latin Prize Vt ver dat florem, Awarded to a Classics student; determined by a competitive, studium sic reddit honorem. handicapped exam.
DEGREES 1st Place: Owen Toepfer - 2nd Place: Ellie Augustine M.A. in Classics Michael Fons Sterling Walker Greek Prize “Subtle Manipulation: The Changing Perception of Medea in Greek and Undergraduate: Chad Uhl Roman Literature” Graduate: Nick Bolig, Kara Kopchinski, Rachel Morrison
Kara Kopchinski Mildred Lord Greef Award “Boundaries and Religion in Propertius Book 4” Awarded to a student for an outstanding paper written on a classical topic. Rachel Morrison “How Strangely Chang’d: The Re-creation of Ovid by African American Undergraduate: Elizabeth Zollner - Graduate: Michael Fons Women Poets” Albert O. Greef Translation Award Katri Niemi Awarded to any student currently enrolled in a Greek or Latin “20th and 21st Century Political Interpretations of Virgil’s Aenid, course for the best translation of a passage from Greek or Ecologues, and Georgics” Latin literature.
Bachelor of Arts and B.G.S. Greek: Owen Toepfer Classical Antiquity Major Latin: Rachel Morrison Jackie Ball, Chloe Clouse, Eilish Gibson, Danielle Houltberg, Joy Mosier-Dubinsky, Chad Uhl Anthony P. Corbeill Outstanding Graduate Student Award Rachel Morrison Classical Languages Major Paige McLoughlin, Aubrie Schartz, Chad Uhl Austin Lashbrook Award For outstanding overall contribution to the Classics program. Minor in Classics (Latin) Ryan Abbott, Ryan Shapiro Kara Kopchinski
Minor in Classics (Greek) Korbin Painter
Minor in Classics (Classical Antiquity) Chase Martin, Brady Olson, Mariah Stover
B.A. Honors Thesis Eilish Gibson, “Seneca: Stoicism, Tyrants, and Tragedy” Chad Uhl, “Movement and Stasis in Vergil’s Aeneid”
AWARD RECIPIENTS Classics Travel Scholarships Monica Barcaralo, Nick Bolig, Venessa Freeman, Jack Rogers, Miriam Walski
Fannie Hughes Durham Classics Student Support Fund 2018 MA graduates, L to R: Rachel Morrison, Kara Venessa Freeman Kopchinski, Emma Scioli, Michael Fons, Katri Niemi
Thanks to our Graduate Student Representative: Rachel Morrison
16 www2.ku.edu/~classics 44th Annual Honors Recognition Celebration 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Graduate Student Latin Prize Mariah Smith, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of New 1st Place: Jack Rogers - 2nd Place: Aidan Mahoney Hampshire Hannah Oliver Latin Prize “Composing the puella: Pliny the Younger’s elegiac experimentation” Awarded to a Classics student; determined by a competitive, handicapped exam. MASTERS OF CEREMONIES Craig Jendza 1st Place: Grant Hussong - 2nd Place: Owen Toepfer
Vt ver dat florem, Sterling Walker Greek Prize studium sic reddit honorem. 1st Place: Nick Bolig - 2nd Place: Owen Toepfer
DEGREES Mildred Lord Greef Award M.A. in Classics Awarded to a student for an outstanding paper written on a Nick Bolig, Douglas Hulsether, Anna Mayersohn, Miriam classical topic. Walski, Chris Wilkins Undergraduate: 1st Place: Maija Gierhart M.A. Theses in Classics 2nd Place: Maggie Williams Nick Bolig Graduate: 1st Place: Chad Uhl - 2nd Place: Connor Jennings “Dramatizing the Divine: An Examination of Divination in Greek Tragedy and Euripides’ Helen” Albert O. Greef Translation Award Awarded to any student currently enrolled in a Greek or Latin Chris Wilkins course for the best translation of a passage from Greek or “furor illa et movit Erinys: The Presentation and Agency of Tisiphone in Latin literature. Statius’ Thebaid” Greek: 1st Place: Owen Toepfer - 2nd Place: Venessa Freeman Bachelor of Arts and B.G.S. Latin: 1st Place: Owen Toepfer - 2nd Place: Chad Uhl Classical Antiquity Monica Barcarolo, Philip Becker, Venessa Freeman, Nicole Anthony P. Corbeill Outstanding Graduate Student Award Jong, Emily Nielsen, Payten Smith Nick Bolig
Classical Languages Austin Lashbrook Award Nolan Erckert, Venessa Freeman, Owen Toepfer For outstanding overall contribution to the Classics program.
Minor in Classics (Classical Antiquity) Venessa Freeman, Payten Smith Bethany Hurd, Sophia Jones Nominee for Best Student Employee of the Year B.A. Honors Thesis Venessa Freeman Nolan Erckert, “The Status of Women and the Collapse of Sparta”
Emily Nielsen, “Deification and Damnation: Precedents and Memory Sanctions in the Julio-Claudian Period”
Owen Toepfer, “Classical Elements in the Dream Narrative in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian”
AWARD RECIPIENTS Classics Travel Scholarships Jack Rogers
Michael Shaw Fund for Study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Nick Bolig, Connor Jennings, Chad Uhl
Fannie Hughes Durham Classics Student Support Fund 2019 MA graduates, L to R: Front row: Doug Hulsether, Laura Phillips Anna Mayersohn, Emma Scioli; Back row: Chris Wilkins, Nick Bolig, Craig Jendza Tenney Frank Recruitment Award Awarded to an incoming Classics student. Thanks to our Student Representatives: Nick Bolig, Robert Ward Douglas Hulsether, Payten Smith, Chad Uhl
www2.ku.edu/~classics 17 Faculty News (continued from page 11) Michael Shaw Fund for Study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens e are delighted to announce that we have established a Wfund to support graduate student work at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), where Professor Michael Shaw was in residence as a junior scholar in between his archaeological work at Corinth in the summers of 1965 and 1966. The ASCSA is the preeminent American graduate study center in Greece. You can read about it Chad Uhl aboard the boat during the Greece from the here: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/. This new fund will help our Sea program (Summer 2019) students explore Greek material culture, and to pass on a wonderful tradition. Due to the success of our “soft opening” of the fund appeal, the department was able to make the first awards in spring 2019. With the support of the Michael Shaw Fund, our MA students Nick Bolig and Chad Uhl attended the ASCSA seminar “Ancient Greece from the Sea,” where they made use of ancient and modern sailing techniques as they learned about ancient travel and nautical life. Connor Jennings attended the ASCSA seminar “Finding the Spartans: History, Landscape, and Archaeology.” Nick Bolig was also the recipient of the Herbert Benario Award from CAMWS. (See photos)
The first donors to our in-house funding appeal are:
Nick Bolig at a Greek theater, on one of the stops on the Anthony Corbeill and Jocelyn Kitchen Greece from the Sea program (Summer 2019) Pamela Gordon Craig T. Jendza and Chelsea M. Bowden Stanley F. Lombardo Shirley A. Phillips Anne and Kyle Rabe Jean and Michael Valk Emma Scioli and Phillip Stinson Anne and Michael Shaw Thomas M. Tuozzo Tara and Kelly Welch James W. Woelfel and Sarah C. Trulove
If you would like to join this list by making a contribution, please see details on p. 19. We hope you will consider honoring Professor Shaw and supporting our students. Connor Jennings at the site of Olympia (Summer 2019)
18 www2.ku.edu/~classics Contribution Details Please consider a financial gift to the Classics Department.
Here’s how to give: 1. Visit http://www.kuendowment.org 2. Click on “Make a gift” (a red flag at the top of the screen) 3. On the secure giving page, fill in “My gift will benefit…” with your passion:
• To support language learning and pedagogy, designate Classics Phillips Fund or Classics Hughes Fund • To support study abroad at the ASCSA in Greece, designate Classics Shaw fund • To support the MA program, designate Classics Corbeill Fund • To support undergraduate scholarships, designate Classics Department Scholarship Fund • To support general programming, designate Classics Department Development Fund
Tara Welch, the Chair of the Classics Department, would also be happy to talk with you about the possibilities for support. Please reach out to Tara at 785-864-2396 or [email protected]
Faculty, students, and friends of KU Classics gather in front of our living statue at the 2018 Haunting Humanities event.
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The mysterious armed pig from the Wilcox Collection.
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