Classics in the News

Congratulations to the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Classics, Gretchen Reydams-Schils (University of Notre Dame) and Andrew M. Riggsby (University of Texas at Austin)!

In 2024, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships across 52 fields. Since 1925, the Foundation has sought to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.”

The Society for Classical Studies congratulates the following individuals and organizations announced as National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grantees in January 2024, for their projects in classical studies and adjacent fields:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant to fund a three-year project at Monmouth College, “Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning.” Congratulations to Robert Holschuh Simmons (Classics), David Wright (English), Anne Mamary (Philosophy), and Valerie Deisinger (History)! This humanities initiative will create a digital repository based on student projects that center issues of displacement and local history in West Central Illinois.

Congratulations to Stephanie McCarter for winning the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, for her translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics, 2022).

Established in 1976, The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 annual award that "recognizes the work of a translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year." In 2023, Anna Deeny Morales chose the winning book.

The Society for Classical Studies congratulates the following individuals and organizations announced as NEH Grantees in August 2023, for their projects in classical studies and adjacent fields:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced a $175,000 grant to fund the Institute for K-12 Educators, “The Ancient Olympics and Daily Life in Ancient Olympia: A Hands-On History”, directed by SCS Members Nathalie Roy (Glasgow Middle School, Baton Rouge, LA) and Bob Simmons (Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL). The Institute will be held at Monmouth College next summer, July 7-20, 2024.

The application and more details about the program will follow in December.

KUT 90.5 in Austin, Texas is featuring the Black Classicists in Texas project, an in person and online exhibition that recovers the hidden history of early Black educators and classicists in central Texas.

News from Finland

Congratulations to Latin teacher William Lee, who has been named ACTFL Teacher of the Year. You can read more about this prestigious national award on the ACTFL website.

Congratulations to NEH grant winners announced in August 2022:

• Christopher Polt (Boston College) and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) for a grant of $224,081 to run a Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty on "The Performance of Roman Comedy" in Summer 2023.
• Leigh Lieberman and the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context team for a grant of $249,879 to run a virtual and in-person institute over three years, "Networking Archaeological Data and Communities", on methods of managing and publishing digital archaeological data.