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Dean Congratulates Classics Department on its Many Achievements

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4 minute read May 13, 2004

Dean Gould congratulates the Classics Department for an extraordinary year of faculty, student, and alumna accomplishments.

  • Department Head Brian Rose was awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to work on his Troy book for ’04-05. He also was awarded the Berlin Prize, a fellowship for autumn of ’06 at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany’s counterpart to the American Academy in Rome.

  • Kathryn Gutzwiller has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship for the 2004-2005 academic year to support her research project.

  • William Johnson won a phenomenal four awards and accepted two from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) in support of his research leave project in 2003-2004.

  • Jack Davis was named the Martha Sharp Joukowsky lecturer for the 2004-2005 academic year by the Archaeological Institute of America.

  • Margo Tytus, trustee and former chair of the Taft Semple Trustees, will be given UC’s Award for Excellence at commencement this year in recognition of her many years of strong support for the Department of Classics and its diverse activities.

  • Alumna Donna Kurtz has been awarded a 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award for her outstanding scholarly contributions.

  • The television special “Troy: Beyond the Movie” was broadcast May 7, 2004 and will be broadcast again on May 14 on the National Geographic Channel. The one-hour program explores the myths and realities behind the greatest love story and war epic ever told. Shot on location in Greece, Turkey, and Russia, “Troy: Beyond the Movie” explores the wild saga of 4,500 year old Trojan gold and the eccentric millionaire who stole it; it examines the crumbling walls of Troy and talks to experts about how this once-great civilization fell. The program includes interviews with Professors Jack Davis, Getzel Cohen, and Brian Rose.

  • Dr. Leena Pietila-Castren, director of the Finish Institute at Athens, offered congratulations to the department in April “on the remarkable achievement of its 80th Anniversary of archaeological excavations.”

  • Undergraduate student Brian Battiste is the recipient of the McMicken Dean’s Scholarship for the ’04-05 academic year.

  • ABD graduate student Rod Fitzsimons has accepted a tenure-track position in Classical archaeology at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.

  • ABD graduate student Sean O’Neill was offered the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Franklin and Marshall College for the next three years.

  • Alumna Eleni Hasaki has been offered a post-doctoral fellowship in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College to enable her to take leave for a year from her post at the University of Arizona.

  • Second year graduate students Shannan Stewart and Jen Sacher have been awarded University Resource Center scholarships for this summer.

  • Congratulations to Jack Davis, who has just been appointed Head of the Excavation and Survey Committee of the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, AND a member of the Advisory Board for the American Journal of Archaeology

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