Dear Members of the Society for Classical Studies:
I write with an update on the Society’s Executive Director position. Two weeks ago I wrote to say that our long-serving Executive Director Helen Cullyer was stepping down effective…
Dear members of the Society for Classical Studies:
I’m writing to provide information on an important transition in the SCS main office. Our Executive Director of the past seven years, Helen Cullyer, is stepping down from this role and her…
As an undergraduate Classics student in the 1980s, I read somewhere the story of a Black man who attempted to register to vote in a southern state under Jim Crow. Local…
The SCS Board of Directors has endorsed the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Statement on the Effort to Undermine Academic Freedom in House Bill 999.
You can read the statement and the list of signatories online at…
The Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies has joined 39 other organizations, and hundreds of individuals, in endorsing the Statement in Support of Academic Freedom and the New College of Florida, issued by the American Council…
It is now less than a month away from our annual meeting in San Francisco, and I hope that you have all had a chance, despite the busy time of year, to check out the…
I begin with a big thank you to the membership. In my last message on annual giving I mentioned that the Board of Directors wanted to make annual meeting travel awards more robust for our colleagues who are most vulnerable…
Within the last few weeks you should have received from the Society an appeal for our Annual Giving campaign. I know this is a very busy time of year but I hope you will allow me just a few minutes to speak on behalf of…
In this, my first presidential letter, I want to begin by acknowledging the singular honor of being elected to this office by you, the members. My predecessors have set a high standard and I hope not to fall short of their…