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The American Philological Association (APA) will present the following awards at the Plenary Session of its 145th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Click on the name of each award winner to read the citation for his or her award.

President's Award (honors an individual, group, or organization outside of the Classics profession that has made significant contributions to advancing public appreciation and awareness of Classical antiquity)

Daniel Mendelsohn

Distinguished Service Awards (awarded occasionally for extraordinary service to the profession of classics and the American Philological Association)

Ladislaus J. Bolchazy

Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit (for an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship published by a member of the Association within the preceding three years)

Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church (University of California Press, 2012)

Richard J. Tarrant, Harvard University, Virgil: Aeneid Book XII (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Gareth Williams, Columbia University, The Cosmic Viewpoint. A Study of Seneca’s Natural Questions (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Outreach Prize (for outstanding projects or events by an APA member or members that make an aspect of classical antiquity available and attractive to an audience other than classics scholars or students in their courses)

Rob Ketterer, University of Iowa, Interdisciplinary conference entitled “Re-Creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity

Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level

Joel Christensen, University of Texas at San Antonio

Awards for Excellence in Precollegiate Teaching

Mary Jo Behrensmeyer, Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, OH

John Higgins, The Gilbert School, Winsted, CT

The Plenary Session will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 4, 2014, in the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel.