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Jenna McKinley

Classics minor Jenna McKinley '15 curated an exhibition of Haverford's collection of Ancient Greek vases, exploring their artistic qualities as well as aspects of collecting and the antiquities trade.

Classics is the study of the ancient Greek and Roman world, its languages, its cultures, and their impact on later cultural traditions.

Our evolving understanding of these concepts (e.g. "ancient," “culture,” “Roman”) gives our discipline dynamism, while a common body of texts function as its shared center. Classics is also interested in how later peoples understood and transformed this inheritance, generating the rich Classical tradition in literature and the other arts.

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Professor Bret Mulligan wears a grey and blue suit with a lavender shirt and purple tie while standing against and out of focus background

Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan has received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH). The grant will fund his continuing work on web applications designed to help educators attain greater awareness of the match between reader knowledge and textual difficulty when assigning Latin and ancient Greek texts.

The classics major is spending the summer at Stanford to assist emerging startups at StartX.

This classics course explores the sexual culture of ancient Greece with a focus on primary materials.

At once an intermediate Latin course and an introduction to the study of Latin literature and culture, this classics class investigates who the Romans were by studying how they described friendship and their friends, and those enemies who resisted, betrayed, and bedeviled them.

Maggie Steinberg (‘19) has won a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarship, which will allow Maggie to learn ancient Greek this summer at CUNY’s Latin/Greek Institute.

Florencia Foxley ‘13 has been awarded the James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship, which will her to conduct research for a year in Greece.

The Classics Department is delighted to announce this year's winners of the Departmental Classics Prizes.

Matthew C. Farmer

Professor Farmer joins us from the University of Missouri

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The Latin major has earned both a Haverford Classics Utraque Lingua grant and a fellowship from UC Berkeley to attend that university's Intensive Greek Workshop for 10 weeks this summer. 

Charlie Kuper, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, has won the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Fellowship. As a TLL Fellow, he will spend a year in Munich working on a Latin dictionary more than a century in the making!