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Precollegiate Teaching Award - Jane Brinley

The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to honor Jane Brinley with the 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level. Ms. Brinley has spent the past two decades teaching Latin in Washington, DC. From 1998-2010, she was a faculty member at St. Anselm’s Abbey School, where she taught all levels of Latin, including Advanced Placement. In 2010, she left St. Anselm’s to start a Latin program at School Without Walls, a magnet public high school situated on the campus of George Washington University. When Ms.

Precollegiate Teaching Award - Andrea Weiskopf

The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to honor Andrea Weiskopf with the 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level. Ms. Weiskopf has been teaching Latin at the River Bend and Seneca Ridge Middle Schools in Loudoun County, VA since 2007. Her rigorous curriculum includes not only a comprehensive overview of Latin grammar but also a broad appreciation of Roman culture and its impact on the modern world. In fact, she has adapted the Latin courses at her middle schools so that students in her classes receive high school credit for their study of Latin.

Collegiate Teaching Award - Stacie Raucci

Glowing letters from students and colleagues reveal how profoundly Dr. Stacie Raucci has influenced the community at Union College since her arrival there in 2004. Not only has she taught a wide range of courses in Latin, Greek, and classical civilization, but she has also designed each course with remarkable creativity.

Collegiate Teaching Award - Gordon P. Kelly

Dr. Gordon P. Kelly arrived at Lewis and Clark College in 2004, just after the faculty, rather reluctantly, had approved an interdisciplinary Classics minor. As the only full-time classicist there, he had his work cut out for him. Ten years later, thanks to his stellar teaching and tireless promotional efforts, the faculty voted unanimously to approve a Classics major. Today, even without the benefit of a tenure-line appointment, Dr. Kelly continues to go above and beyond the call of duty to motivate his students.

Collegiate Teaching Award - Jacqueline Carlon

Since 2005 Dr. Jacqueline Carlon has been wowing undergraduate and graduate students alike at the University of Massachusetts Boston. As her department chair writes, “Her record of teaching is outstanding for the variety of courses she has taught, for the different types of students she reaches, and above all for her skill in simply making a classroom work.” Many of her insights into pedagogy come from her nine years as a Latin teacher and language department chair at the Academy of Notre Dame.

Outreach Prize - Brett Rogers and Benjamin Stevens

A long time ago, in a galaxy…well, in Ancient Greece and Rome, actually… seeds of the thoroughly modern genre of science fiction were unwittingly sown. These strange new worlds of classical reception remained largely unexplored until the 2015 publication of the groundbreaking Classical Traditions and Science Fiction. Its editors, Brett Rogers and Benjamin Stevens, also made every effort in their book and the subsequent conference and media events to reach out to classicists and the science fiction community and to make them equal partners in the ensuing conversation.

Goodwin Award - Dickey

We know sadly little about the practice of language learning in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Eleanor Dickey’s two volumes on The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana are destined to heal this deficit. She publishes a number of Western medieval manuscripts that are virtually unknown outside a circle of specialists and have been published only once, in 1892 as part of a corpus of Latin glossaries, and that contain a body of texts used to teach Greek to Latin speakers, parts of which date back to much earlier periods.

Goodwin Award - Bartsch

In her new book, Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (Chicago University Press, 2015), Shadi Bartsch illuminates a poetic corpus notoriously dark in both senses: obscure of expression and pessimistic about human potential. In characteristically clear and captivating prose, she zeroes in on Persius’ transgressive metaphors in his first five Satires and identifies a consistent strategy on the part of this slippery author.

Goodwin Award - Corbeill

For any student of Latin, the classification of nouns by gender is an inescapable feature of the language, which is generally treated as a purely grammatical phenomenon. But, as Anthony Corbeill shrewdly recognizes, it can be hard not to think of grammatical gender as indicating a natural relationship between the meanings of words and biological difference.

Report of the Delegate to the ACLS (May 2016)

The meeting of delegates to ACLS followed a different format from previous years: we were told that the Executive Committee wanted to make it more interactive. It was still not especially interactive. I suspect that the most valuable part of the whole structure is the meeting of the Conference of Executive Officers. The people who actually run societies learn a lot from each other.