From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America

This talk will be an abbreviated version of a longer history of the APA/SCS that will appear in TAPA.

In the past few years, many classicists have begun to use our disciplinary framework to engage with contemporary social and political issues. Under rubrics like “classics and social justice” this movement has spawned an affiliated group and sessions at our annual meetings in 2017 and 2018; been the subject of innumerable blogs, tweets, and facebook posts; and produced or called attention to valuable initiatives connecting academic classicists with non-traditional audiences.

“African American Members of the Society for Classical Studies: A Census of Affiliations (1875-1938)”

“1869: The Year That Changed Classical Studies in America”