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Classics Everywhere - November 1, 2018 deadline projects

  • Nyansa Classical Community – New Orleans, LA

Angel Parham

  • Latin After-School Aequora Program – Jamaica Plain, MA

Kendra Eshleman and Christopher Polt

  • Wilson College Classical Chorus – Chambersburg, PA

Bonnie McCutcheon

  • Poetry and Performance – Memphis, TN

Kenneth Scott Morrell

  • Homerathon – Lincoln, NE

Mike Lippman

  • Indigo Bridge Bookstore Event – Lincoln, NE

Amy Pistone

  • Three C's - Classics, Cinema, and Conversation – Winston-Salem, NC

Lauren Rogers

  • Putting the "Lives of Early African American Classicists into the Hands of our Secondary Teachers" – ACL Centennial Meeting, NYC

Michele Valerie Ronnick

  • The Oresteia Project: Free Performance of Operatic Highlights – Washington, D.C.

Andrew E. Simpson and Sarah B. Ferrario

  • Black Classicists Outreach – Washington, D.C.

Caroline Stark

  • Symposium on Liberal Education and African American History: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Anna Julia Cooper – Washington, D.C.

David Withun

  • Classics Unit for Homeless Shelter Aftercare – Honolulu, HI

Daniel Harris-McCoy

Classics Everywhere - March 1, 2019 deadline projects

  • After the Antique: Mithras Now: A Painting Workshop – Berkshires, MA

Susan P. Bachelder

  • Greeking It Up with the Romans: Staging Plautus’ The Braggart Soldier – Starkville, MS

Donna Clevinger

  • Classical Drama LIVE! – Winston-Salem, NC

Lauren Rogers

  • Martha Graham’s Dance Interpretations of Ancient Greek Heroines – Boston, MA

Stephen Scully

  • Reading Classics Books to kids at low income Elementary Schools – Lexington, KY

Diane Arnson Svarlien

  • Ancients in the Parks!: Roman Engineering – OH and WV

Sarah Wear

  • Introductory Latin in Prisons: Summer 2019 – Hartford, CT

Nebojsa Todorovic and S. Zelda Roland

  • Voices of Ancient Palmyra – San Bernandino, CA

Carly Maris

  • New Directions in Classics – Winnipeg, Canada

Peter J. Miller

Classics Everywhere - May 15, 2019 deadline projects

  • Case Western Classics Day – Cleveland, OH

Evelyn Adkins

  • Classics Summer Camp – Madison, WI

William Aylward

  • Ancient Leadership Everywhere – MA, NY, D.C., NC

Norman Sandridge

  • Classics Beyond Whiteness – Winston-Salem, NC

T.H.M. Gellar-Goad

  • Casey Middle School Latin program – Boulder, CO

Andrew Cain

  • Electra International Tour – London, Berlin, Istanbul

Lily Grob

  • Jkids: Classics videos for kids – online

Sofia and Teodor Poinelli

Classics Everywhere - October 15, 2019 deadline projects

  • Classics Day V – Monmouth, IL

Robert Holschuh Simmons

  • More Latin Moments than Senior Moments – Branford, CT

Susan Craig

  • Mini Maker Faire: Roman Concrete – Baton Rouge, LA

Nathalie Roy

  • Public Face of Emotions: Greek Classics and the Role of Emotions in our Lives – Boston, MA

Emily Allen-Hornblower

  • The Stuff of Legend: Classical Mythology & its Impact on Creative Writing – Dublin, CA

Sarah Shin

  • Homer’s Odyssey in Homer – Homer, AL

Joe Goodkin

  • After-School Latin Program – Lawrenceville, NJ

Regina Koebele-Demaree

  • Printing the Past: Classical Studies & 3D Printing workshop – Schenectady, NY

Angela Commito

  • Morningside Heights Latin Camp – New York, NY

Lydia Palmer

  • Hive: An Art Exhibition at Krannert Art Museum – Champaign, IL

Amy Powell and Clara Bosak-Schroeder

  • Philosophy & Literature Circle: A Prison Education Program – San Antonio, TX

Mel Webb and Jessica Wright

  • Black Classicisms and the Black Atlantic: A Public Program – Detroit, MI

Michele Valerie Ronnick

  • Nyansa: A New Curriculum for the Youth – New Orleans, LA

Angel Parham

  • Penelope and the Geese: A Workshop & Opera Performance – Saugerties, NY

Cheri Magid

  • Homerathon in ChicagoLand – Chicago, IL

Krishni Burns

  • Classics and the World Today 4 – Mississauga, Canada

Boris Chrubasik

  • Classics in Humanities and University Education in Africa: The Way Forward: A Public Panel in Ghana – Ghana

Michael Kwadwo Okyere Asante

  • First-Generation Classics: A Special issue of Eidolon – online

Donna Zuckerberg

Classics Everywhere - February 20, 2020 deadline projects

  • Inside Classics: a Video and Podcast Project – Austin, TX

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

  • Conversations with Homer – San Francisco, CA

Alexandra Pappas

  • Classical Crosswords – Charlotte, NC

Genevieve Romanelli

  • UNL Homerathon 2020 – Lincoln, NE

Mike Lippman

  • Inclusive Classics: Retelling Greco-Roman Myths for the 21st Century – Chicago, IL

David Tapper

  • Vermont Classical Play / City Dionysia (Aristophanes’ Clouds) – Burlington, VT

John C. Franklin

  • “Unchain My Heart”: Staging Prometheus Bound for Today’s Audiences Starkville, MS

Donna Clevinger

  • The Wars Within, The Wars Without: Lucan’s Civil War through Modern Veterans’ Eyes – Huntington, West Virginia

Christina Franzen

  • Martha Graham Interprets Greek Myths – Athens, Greece

Penny Diamantopoulou

  • Owls to Athens: An Odyssey through Ancient Greek Culture – Norwich, CT

Dayne Rugh

  • It Starts with the Stars: Learning Introductory Latin Through Western Zodiac’s Mythology – Boston, MA

Melissa Saunders

  • Cathartic History Conference – Carrollton, GA

Nadya Williams

  • Arachne’s Threads: Spinning and Fiber in the Ancient Mediterranean – Lubbock, TX

Sydnor Roy

  • Classical Words, Modern Heroes: Examples from the 21st Century – Italy

Rachele Pierini

Classics Everywhere - May 15, 2020 deadline projects

  • Ancient Ghosts, Hauntings, Spectres, and Superstitions – New York, NY

Erin Petrella

  • Ad Aequiora: Underrepresented Voices – online

Danielle Bostick

  • Bringing the Musical Joy of Classics to Small-Town America – California

Sarah Ying Bai

  • Novae Res Antiqui (“A Revolution of the Classics”) – Lectures/Podcast – New Jersey, Massachusetts, and online

Jonathan Fu

  • The Trojan Women: the Classics in a Pandemic – New York

Nancy S. Rabinowitz

  • Jkids Bits of Classics & History YouTube Channel – Belgium

Sofia and Teodoro Poinelli

  • Euripides’ Andromache – New York, Puerto Rico, Argentina

Cristina Perez Diaz and Alejandro Kauderer

  • Inspire 100,000 for Ancient Studies: A Social Media Campaign - A Project of Save Ancient Studies in America (SASA) – online

David Danzig

  • AGORA: (A)ncient (G)reek (O)bservations in (R)ediscovering (A)ntiquity – Illinois

Sara Kumar and Ariadne Merchant

  • Performing Tragedy Online – online

Joel P. Christensen and Paul O’Mahony

  • Classics at the University of Alberta’s U School: Engaging with and Enriching Under-resourced Students – Canada

Kelly MacFarlane

  • Panel Discussions around the new film “Ovid and the Art of Love” – online

Benjamin Weisman

  • Louisiana Junior Classical League Classics Fair – New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Stephen Beck and Katherine Norton

Classics Everywhere – October 26, 2020 deadline projects

  • Ancient Myths, Modern Problems: Discussing Helen Morales’ Book Antigone Rising – online

Yurie Hong

  • National Long Island E-Certamen – online

Vivan Wu

  • The Greek Myth Files – New Hampshire, online

R. Scott Smith

  • Ancient Wisdom Discussion Group (UNC and Orange County Department of Aging) – North Carolina, online

Michael Vasquez

  • The Orestes Project – Digital Performance Experience – UK, online

Christine Plastow

  • Classical Archaeology After School: An Enrichment Program for Students Aged 10-16 – California

Eva Prionas

  • Making Myths New: Classics and Creative Play – California

Marissa Henry

  • Peopling the Past – Canada, Washington, California

Chelsea Gardner

  • Classical Reception Podcast – Canada, online

Julia Perroni and Allison Marlyn

  • Loss, Separation, and Nostalgia: Classics in the time of Covid-19 – California

Olga Faccani

  • Greece and Rome Video Games – Arizona, online

Britta Ager

  • Classics Sacculus – Illinois

Lauren Tapper

  • Relative Theatrics: Homer’s Odyssey – online

Laura De Lozier

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 19, 2021 deadline projects

  • New Atlantis: A Journey into the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois – Pennsylvania

Divya Nair

  • Classics as Pedagogical Tool: An Interactive/Multimedia E-Book – online

Marcus Bell and Nancy Rabinowitz

  • A Musical Adaptation of The Bacchae – online

J. Landon Marcus

  • All BAME Medea: A Short Film – U.K.

Shivaike Shah

  • The Ozymandias Project: A New Podcast – Illinois, online

Lexie Henning

  • The Laodamiad at the Center for Hellenic Studies – Washington, DC, online

Chas LiBretto

  • Society for Ancient Medicine Blog Series: “The Best Doctor is also a Historian” – online

Colin Webster

  • A Poem and a Mistake (a virtual performance inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses) – NY, NJ, VT, online

Sarah Baskin

  • The Trojan Women Project (a virtual performance/video) – California, online

Michael Morgan

  • Greek Tragedy / Masterclasses on Film – U.K., online

Paul O’Mahony

  • Educating Philosophy through Classics – India

Apoorwa Sinha

  • Neropolis: A New Podcast – Massachusetts, online

Virginia Closs

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – May 14, 2021 deadline projects

  • Project Nota (Digitization of Latin texts by Women) – online

Sophia He and Laura Petersen

  • Honoring Esteemed Alumnae of Color: Helen and Dorothy Chestnutt – Ohio

Paul Hay

  • Plautus’ Amphitruo in a new verse translation – Vancouver, Canada

C.W. (Toph) Marshall

  • Sports Garb/led: Ancient Mosaics and Their Relevance for Girls Today – Massachusetts

Jennifer Demers

  • Barron C. Blewett Hunnicutt Classics Gallery and Antiquities Collection – Pennsylvania

Bonnie Rock-McCutcheon

  • COINS TO CASKETS: Low Relief Art that still tells a story – Massachusetts

Susan P. Bachelder

  • Talos Dreams – California

Ellie Falaris Ganelin

  • The Marsal Collections: Integrating Andalusian Rural Communities in an Archaeological Scientific Project – Spain

Ivan González Tobar

  • Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers – online

Krishni Burns

  • More Classics Books for Kids at a Low-Income Elementary School – Kentucky

Diane Arnson Svarlien

  • Ancient Worlds in our Community (AWOC) Certificate Program – Connecticut

Kelly P. Dugan

  • The Sculpture Shoppe at Ithaca Mall – New York

Verity Platt

  • A Student Commentary of Landivar’s Rustication Mexicana (A Latin Text about Guatemala) – Wisconsin

Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – October 15, 2021 deadline projects

  • Liber Architecturae: Neoclassical Influences on Chicago Architecture – a book project published on Amazon

Sara Kumar

  • A Free Oresteia for a Transformed Long Island – New York

Danny Higgins and Nicole Savin

  • Online Text-in-Translation Reading Groups of Save Ancient Studies Alliance – online

David Danzig

  • Olympics Musical – UK, Greece, US

Rob Castell

  • Theatre of Difference Project: Euripides’ Medea – Arizona

Joseph Ryan O’Neill

  • Harmonia Rosales: Entwined (an art exhibition on Afro-Cuban Artist H. Rosales at UCSB on intersections between Greek and ancient Toruba myths) – California

Helen Morales

  • “This is my native land: Black Classics in Texas” (an exhibition on 19th and 20th century Black Classicists in Texas) – Texas

Pramit Chaudhuri and Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

  • The Blues of Achilles at Loyola – Illinois

Jenn Finn

  • On-Campus Visits by Khameleon Productions – New York

Dan Curley and Stacey Raucci

  • Playing Dionysus – US and Canada

Joel Christensen

  • Peopling the Past: An Educational Multimedia Project about the Inhabitants of the Ancient World – online

Megan Daniels

  • Ancient Greek Drama on Film: Phaethon – Canada

Hallie Marshall

  • Enthralled: An Interactive Educational Game to Accompany Euripides’ Bacchae – California

Katerina Zacharia

  • Empire of Venus – Washington

Aislinn Melchior

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 28, 2022 deadline projects

· WesMyths – a school program between Wesleyan University and local Elementary School students – CT

Noah Coyle

· Ancient Medicine for Modern Times: Engaging with Plants and Learning from Women – Greece

Maria Christodoulou

· All STEM leads to Rome – Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Marwan Mikdadi

· Penelope and the Geese (2) – New York

Cheri Magid and Milica Paranosic

· All About the Ancient Worlds – online lecture series

Emily Prosch

· Reading Greek Tragedy Live (2) – Massachusetts

Joel Christensen

· Classical Archaeology After School (2) – California

Eva Prionas

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – May 15, 2022 deadline projects

  • Classics Connected – a series of art installations and lectures on female figures from Greek and Roman mythology in Savannah, Georgia

Emily Waller Singeisen

  • Classics Camp – Kentucky

Kelly Kusch

  • Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers – online

Krishni Burns

  • The Congo is Flooding the Acropolis: W.E.B. DuBois and Reclassifying Classical Culture – a series of performances and interactive creative sessions on Classical Antiquity and the Harlem Renaissance in St. Paul, Minnesota

Sarah Guy-Levar

  • A Teenager Medea – a new adaptation and performance of Medea in Rockford, Illinois

Yoandy Cabrera Ortega

  • Expanding the Ancient World – a series of professional development workshops and online resources for K-12 educators by ISAW in New York

Alexander Jones

  • Classics Day VI – at Monmouth College, Illinois

Robert Simmons

  • The Eleon Learning Project – digital resources for K-12 educators

Devon Lohrasbe

  • Seneca’s Medea – a short film adaptation

Angela Hurley

  • Hymns – a series of music videos adapted from the Homeric Hymns

Mat Sweeney

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – October 14, 2022 deadline projects

  • Archaeogaming Multimedia Learning Program – digital resources for middle school, high school, and college students as part of the Ozymandias Project

Lexie Henning and Dan Maday

  • Online Ancient Studies Text in Translation – online reading group programs organized by Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA)

David Danzig

  • Egyptomania – a public lecture on the impact of Egyptology on 20th century fashion in Cleveland, Ohio

Maggie Popkin

  • Queering the Past(s) – digital resources for developing a queer-friendly ancient studies curriculum for high school students

Nancy Rabinowitz

  • Community-Based Theater Performance “Antigone in Ferguson” by the Theater of War project – San Diego, California

Denise Demetriou

  • Classics Books for Low-Income Students – Lexington, Kentucky

Diane Arnson Svarlien

  • Stoic Tragedy and the Sources of Human Ethics – student-led performances of Seneca’s plays followed by public discussions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Michael Vazquez

Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 15, 2023 deadline projects

  • La Puerta Electra: Translating Prominent Cuban Adaptations of Greek Tragedy into English

Rosa Andújar

  • The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice – theatre show, workshop and online live stream

Hannah Barrie

  • Greek Drama/ Black Lives

Catherine Conybeare

  • Greek Love: Gender, Sexuality, Desire and Queerness in Classical Antiquity

Tobias Fulton

  • Becoming Nobody: Performing the Odyssey in All 50 US States

Joe Goodkin

  • Mythical Journeys: Exploring the Stories of Ancient Greece and China for Elementary School Children in Great Neck, Long Island

Pei He

  • Revisiting Sperlonga: new digital documentation, and community engagement

Rebecca Levitan

  • A Public Performance of 'The Love of the Nightingale'

Gifty Etornam Katahena