December, 2018
Below is a list of the most recent NEH grantees and their Classically-themed projects. The NEH helps fund a number of SCS initiatives, and their support affects the field of Classics at a national and local level.
Grantees
- Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College) - "Plato's Philosophy of Mind: Soul, Body and Forms in Plato's Oeuvre"
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William Seales (University of Kentucky Research Foundation) - "Reading the Invisible Library: Rescuing the Hidden Texts of Herculaneum
Project Description: The continued development of computerized techniques to recover writings from the Herculaneum library, the entire collections of which were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 BCE - Thomas Keeline (Washington University in St. Louis) - "Latin Textual Scholarship in the Digital Age: An Open-Access Critical Edition of Ovid's Ibis and its Scholia"
- Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University) - "Human Agency and Cause from Aristotle to Alexander"
- Katharina Volk (Columbia University) - "The Politics of Knowledge in Late Republican Rome"
- Paul Iverson (Case Western Reserve University) - "The 2,000-Year-Old Calculator Known as the Antikythera Mechanism and Ancient Greek Calendars"
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